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10 books mention ‘British Aircraft’.
British Aircraft of the Great War, FIGHTERS BOMBERS ETC ISBN: 9781838056704.
WWI Aviation · 136 pages · 8 September 2020£12.93…waters and by 1927 voyaged to Shanghai to reinforce the British presence in China.
Naval Aviation · 175 pages · 15 February 2017£12.93Commencing at Versailles 1919, then the Germans in Russia at the Lipetsk flying school and at Fili aircraft assembly plant, with Hugo Junkers and Ernst Heinkel.
Military History · 207 pages · 16 January 2016£13.96The founding of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve is explained as is the first flights of the first British helicopter.
Scottish Aviation History · 344 pages · 21 February 2020 · Volume 2 of 3, Clydeside Aviation£12.89In this second volume of This was the Enemy, the procurement of aircraft, bombs, aeroplane details and aircraft armament are explored.
WWII Aviation · 288 pages · 24 November 2025 · Volume 2 of 3, This Was the Enemy£12.89A study of aircraft production before and in World War One, including Admiralty procurement of airships.
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£12.89Included is the development of Canadair aircraft, the Canadair North Star/Argonaut, Silver Star CT-33, the Avro CF-100 and the Argonaut's involvement with the…
Jet Age Aviation · 302 pages · 11 April 2022 · Volume 3 of 3, Clydeside Aviation£12.94A rare insight into the British Furniture industry in peace and war.
Industrial History · 200 pages · 15 August 2013£12.89"The British deserve much of the credit for the Atomic Bomb - their research was way ahead of ours when the project was turned over to the United States to…
Military History · 192 pages · 21 March 2019£12.89
Historical articles (16)
- 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.
- From the Fokker Eindecker to the D.VII: How German Aircraft Developed, 1914-1918
How German Great War aircraft evolved from the Fokker Eindecker to the Albatros fighters and the Fokker D.VII, 1914-1918, by Charles E. MacKay.
- 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.
- Arado Ar 234 Blitz: The World's First Operational Jet Bomber and Reconnaissance Aircraft
The Arado Ar 234 Blitz was the first operational jet bomber and reconnaissance aircraft. Its design, the Normandy sortie of 2 August 1944, and Remagen.
- The Fedden Mission to Germany, 1945: Inside the Defeated German Aircraft Industry
Roy Fedden's May-July 1945 mission to inspect defeated Germany's jet engines, wind tunnels, Nordhausen underground plants and swept-wing research.
- From Cierva and the Weir W5 to the Bristol Sycamore: Early British Helicopter Development
Early helicopter history from the Denny Mumford helicopter and Cierva autogiros to the Weir W5, Cierva Air Horse, Sikorsky Hoverfly and Bristol Sycamore.
- From the Queen Mary to the Mosquito and Bouncing Bomb: Morris Furniture of Glasgow, 1914-1975
How H. Morris and Co. of Glasgow furnished the Queen Mary and Royal Yacht Britannia and built Mosquito balsa plywood, Highball casings and rotor blades.
- Beardmore at Dalmuir: Airships, HMS Argus and Aero-Engines
How William Beardmore and Co built HMS Argus, the R34 airship, the Tornado engine behind R101 and more aircraft in Scotland from 1913 to 1930.