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15 books mention ‘Britain’.
Topic: Britain
Scottish Aviation History · 238 pages · 8 September 2012£12.93aircraft in Britain pre-1914.
Scottish Aviation History · 372 pages · 8 October 2018 · Volume 1 of 3, Clydeside Aviation£12.89…ends with the Spitfire flight up the East Coast of Great Britain on Empire Air Day, 20th May 1939 with Stainforth flying Spitfire K9895 from Netherhavon to Ross…
Scottish Aviation History · 344 pages · 21 February 2020 · Volume 2 of 3, Clydeside Aviation£12.89Topic: Britain
WWI Aviation · 136 pages · 8 September 2020£12.93Topic: Britain
Helicopter History · 219 pages · 15 September 2014£12.89Topic: Britain
Aviation Biography · 56 pages · 31 January 2018£7.54Topic: Britain
Jet Age Aviation · 302 pages · 11 April 2022 · Volume 3 of 3, Clydeside Aviation£12.94Topic: Britain
Aviation Biography · 171 pages · 8 May 2024£12.89Topic: Britain
Aviation Biography · 287 pages · 28 January 2021£12.89Topic: Britain
Military History · 192 pages · 21 March 2019£12.89Topic: Britain
Naval Aviation · 175 pages · 15 February 2017£12.93The story of an extraordinary project making Britain a superpower.
Military History · 207 pages · 16 January 2016£13.96The Luftwaffe met its match in the Royal Air Force and actions from Norway to the Battle of Britain in September 1940 are fully described.
WWII Aviation · 288 pages · 8 May 2025 · Volume 1 of 3, This Was the Enemy£12.89…as Gleneagles and Turnberry then the liners Empress of Britain, Aquitania, Pendennis Castle, Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth etc.
Industrial History · 200 pages · 15 August 2013£12.89The Mission was formed to find and return to Britain aeronautical examples for the new Cranfield College of Aeronautics (Technological looting).
WWII Aviation · 214 pages · 21 October 2026 · In the series, This Was the Enemy£14.95
Historical articles (15)
- The RFC and RNAS in the Great War: Britain's Fighters, Bombers and Seaplanes, 1914-1918
How Britain built its Great War air arm: RFC and RNAS fighters, bombers, seaplanes and flying boats, 1914-1918, and the procurement system behind them.
- HMS Argus: Beardmore's Flat-Deck Aircraft Carrier and the Making of Naval Aviation
A guide to HMS Argus: her Dalmuir conversion from Conte Rosso, early deck flying, wartime service, and the 175-page illustrated Charles E. MacKay study.
- The British Nuclear Deterrent in the Jet Age: V-Bombers and the Cold War
How Britain built its Cold War nuclear deterrent: V-bombers, German rocket origins, Blue Steel, Polaris and Thor. Charles E. MacKay aviation history.
- How Glasgow's Shipyards Built Aircraft in the Great War
Glasgow Clydeside shipyards built aircraft, airships and aero engines in the Great War: Beardmore, Weir, Denny, the R34 and Red Clydeside.
- Messerschmitt Me 262: The First Operational Jet Fighter, 1944-1945
The Messerschmitt Me 262 was the first operational jet fighter, entering Luftwaffe service in 1944. Development, combat record, and why it came too late.
- North American F-86 Sabre: The RAF's Cold War Swept-Wing Fighter
How the Canadair-built F-86 Sabre armed RAF squadrons in 1950s NATO Germany. Korea, MiG Alley and the Bechers Brook ferry flights explained.
- The Luftwaffe in 1945: Jets, Fuel, Pilots and the Final Collapse
How the Luftwaffe collapsed in its final year: Me 262 jets grounded for fuel, synthetic oil output destroyed, and a pilot force gutted by undertraining.
- Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown: Test Pilot, Carrier Landings and the Records That Still Stand
Captain Eric Winkle Brown flew 487 aircraft types and logged 2,407 carrier landings. Inside his records, the first jet deck landing and the steam catapult.