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This fully illustrated volume looks at the classic jet fighter, the Hawker Hunter. The type's development, entry into service and operations are examined in detail.

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Exotic research aircraft designed, built, and flown in Europe in the two decades following World War II were the foreign equivalent of the legendary American X?Planes. Many of these advanced aircraft flown by test pilots such as Peter Twiss and An...

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The development of high-performance vertical take-off aeroplanes has proved to be one of the landmarks of aviation history, showcasing the best of British design and innovation. Yet the path to success was by no means straightforward and considera...

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Many books have been written about the Hawker Hunter, one of the worlds great jet fighters. The majority, however, have tended to concentrate on the aircrafts extensive service career. Superbly illustrated with both colour and black-and-white phot...

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While World War II raged, pioneering aircraft and engine designers were busy developing the world''s first practical jet-powered research aircraft to test and prove the new technology. This book examines the aircraft that paved the way for Germany...

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While World War II raged, pioneering aircraft and engine designers were busy developing the worlds first practical jet-powered research aircraft to test and prove the new technology. This book examines the aircraft that paved the way for Germanys ...

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While World War II raged, pioneering aircraft and engine designers were busy developing the world''s first practical jet-powered research aircraft to test and prove the new technology. This book examines the aircraft that paved the way for Germany...

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At the dawn of the supersonic jet age, aircraft designers were forced to devise radical new planforms that suited the new power of the jet engine. One of the most successful was the delta wing. Although Gloster produced the delta wing Javelin, and...

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At the dawn of the supersonic jet age, aircraft designers were forced to devise radical new planforms that suited the new power of the jet engine. One of the most successful was the delta wing. Although Gloster produced the delta wing Javelin, and...

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At the dawn of the supersonic jet age, aircraft designers were forced to devise radical new planforms that suited the new power of the jet engine. One of the most successful was the delta wing. Although Gloster produced the delta wing Javelin, and...

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This book examines the last generation of high-performance British propellor-driven fighters, types such as the Firecrest, late mark Spitfires and Seafires, Spiteful and Seafang, Sea Fury, late mark Tempests, Hornet and Sea Hornet, M.B.5 and Wyver...

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During the late 1940s and into the 1950s, a number of British jet fighter and bomber aircraft were fitted with new, different or additional engines, both jet and rocket, to enable them to serve as test beds for those specific powerplants. These ai...

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In the years immediately after World War II, Europe produced a bewildering array of experimental aircraft - 'X-Planes' - testing new aerodynamic ideas and the potential of jet propulsion. These exciting machines are detailed in the bestselling boo...

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Many bomber projects were drawn by British aircraft manufacturing companies in times of potential or actual combat. While names such as Canberra, Vulcan, Victor, TSR.2, Harrier and Tornado are widely known as they made it into the skies, the fact ...

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This is a welcome revised and enhanced second edition of this comprehensive, accurate and honest account of the fascinating TSR2 story, tracing the project's development from its origins in the 1950's.

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In Building Concorde , renowned aviation author and historian Tony Buttler explores in detail the design, construction and testing of this extraordinary airplane. A huge design and test effort, involving many different research aircraft, explored ...

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This addition to the "Secret Projects" series reveals unknown or seldom revealed British fighter designs occurring in and around the Second World War.

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A revised investigation of the design and development of UK military aircraft. Also covers designs that were not built, providing artists' impressions of how they might have looked.

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Having completed the revision of his series of British Secret Projects titles, Tony Buttler has now begun the same treatment for his early volumes on American Secret Projects. This first revised book describes the design and development of America...

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Although first designed as a fighter, during the fighting in and over Europe during 1944 and 1945 the Hawker Typhoon gained a tremendous reputation and true fame as a ground-attack aircraft and tank-buster. This was a remarkable achievement becaus...

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