Flight Craft – serie
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Flight Craft 23: Airbus A380
Häftad, 2021
198 kr
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On 27 April 2005, an aircraft lifted away from the runway of Toulouse-Blagnac Airport under the power of six massive Rolls-Royce Trent 900 turbofan engines. It carried a six-man crew, it was making its first flight, and it was making history. For this was the Airbus A380, the largest passenger …
Flight Craft 33: Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
Av Ben Skipper
Häftad, 2025
347 kr
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The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is heralded as the ultimate fifth-generation fighter, merging advanced engineering with multinational collaboration. Developed during a time of military reorganization and technological mergers, it integrates the best features of previous generations into a …
Flight Craft 29: Boeing B-29 Superfortress
Av Ben Skipper
Häftad, 2023
221 kr
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The B-29 Superfortress was the definitive expression in piston-powered offensive air power. It was designed for an air force that was slowly realising it needed larger and heavy aircraft to support its operations, especially in the Pacific. Riding on the waves made by the equally ground breaking …
Flight Craft Special 2: The Focke-Wulf Fw 190
The A-G Series
Av Martin Derry, Neil Robinson
Häftad, 2024
214 kr
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The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 was arguably the Luftwaffe's most outstanding piston-engine fighter of the Second World War, virtually dominating the skies over Europe for more than a year after its initial introduction into service in the summer of 1941\. Continual development and improvements then kept it …
Flight Craft 27: The Boeing B-17
Av Ben Skipper
Häftad, 2023
198 kr
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The B-17 Flying Fortress, a term coined by a Seattle Daily Times report in 1935, was a quantum leap in offensive air power. Designed for a nation whose foreign policy was still deeply isolationist, and an Air Corps whose in-service bomber fleet was dominated by bi-planes, the B-17, with its four …
Flight Craft 15: Supermarine Spitfire MKV
The Mark V and its Variants
Av Lance Cole
Häftad, 2018
187 kr
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The story of the Supermarine Spitfire has been told across many years and the debate about it is enduring, yet the Spitfire remains a true icon. For aviation enthusiasts, for historians, for modellers, the word Spitfire conjures many stories and affections. This book presents the Spitfire …
Flight Craft 16: The Hawker Hunter in British Service
Av Martin Derry, Neil Robinson
Häftad, 2019
187 kr
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The Hawker Hunter is one of Britain's classic post-war jet aircraft. Initially introduced in 1954 as a swept-wing, transonic, single-seat day interceptor, it rapidly succeeded the first-generation jet fighters in RAF service such as the Gloster Meteor (see Flight Craft 13) and the de Havilland …
Flight Craft 17: The English Electric Canberra in British Service
Av Martin Derry, Neil Robinson
Häftad, 2026
338 kr
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Developed by English Electric during the late 1940s - essentially as a successor to the wartime de Havilland Mosquito twin-engine, unarmed, fast bomber concept - the Canberra can lay claim to being the first British jet-powered medium bomber when it was introduced in to RAF service in May 1951\.The …
Flight Craft 18: British Military Test and Evaluation Aircraft
The Golden Years 1945-1975
Häftad, 2019
197 kr
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It could be argued that the heyday of British military aircraft flight testing began in the 1940s, and continued throughout the three decades that followed, during the so-called Cold War period, and as such, the authors have purposely chosen the first 30 years, The Golden Years, 1945 to 1975, from …
Flight Craft 19: North American Aviation P-51 Mustang
Häftad, 2020
182 kr
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The North American P-51 Mustang was one of the most successful and effective fighter aircraft of all time. It was initially produced in response to a 1940 RAF requirement for a fast, heavily-armed fighter able to operate effectively at altitudes in excess of 20,000ft. North America built the …
Flight Craft 22: Mitsubishi A6M Zero
Häftad, 2020
192 kr
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The quality of Japanese aircraft came as an unpleasant surprise to the Allies at the outbreak of the Pacific War, and it was personified in one type, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero.One of the finest aircraft of all time, the Mitsubishi A6M Reisen (Zero fighter) first flew on 1 April 1939\. It soon showed …
Flight Craft 21: Douglas DC-3
The Airliner that Revolutionised Air Transport
Häftad, 2020
183 kr
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No airliner in the history of commercial aviation has had a more profound effect than the Douglas DC-3\. It was reliable, easy to maintain and carried passengers in greater comfort than ever before.Its origins stem from a design by the Douglas Aircraft Company of Santa Monica, California. Known as …
Flight Craft 24: Boeing 747
The Original Jumbo Jet
Av Lance Cole
Häftad, 2021
198 kr
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Boeing's 747 'heavy' has achieved a fifty-year reign of the airways, but now airlines are retiring their fleets as a different type of long-haul airliner emerges. Yet the ultimate development of the 747, the -800 model, will ply the airways for many years to come.Even as twin-engine airliners …
Flight Craft 20: Vickers VC10
Av Lance Cole
Häftad, 2020
192 kr
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Designed and manufactured by the men who would make Concorde, the Rolls-Royce powered Vickers VC10, and its larger variant, the Super VC10, represented the ultimate in 1960s subsonic airliners. The VC10 was Britain's answer to the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8.The VC10 was a second-generation …
