Aircraft and aviation

Essentially a development of the Avro Lancaster via the later Lincoln, the Avro Shackleton was the RAF’s first line of defence in the maritime role from 1951 for twenty years, thereafter continuing to serve as an airborne early warning aircraft for another twenty, until 1991.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns was commissioned at the RAF College Cranwell in 1959 after completing flying training on Piston Provost and Meteor aircraft.

Following the critically acclaimed publication eight years ago of Buccaneer Boys, long-serving Buccaneer navigator Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork has now followed up the great success of the book with more true tales from those who flew the last all-British bomber.

Originally intended as a trainer, the Anglo-French Sepecat jet, equipped with the very latest in weapon-aiming and navigational equipment, eventually became the backbone of the RAF’s tactical strike-attack and recce forces for a decade from the mid-1970s.

Designed by Sydney Camm as a swept wing, daytime interceptor with excellent maneuverability, the Hunter became the first jet aircraft manufactured by Hawker for the Royal Air Force.

The Korean War (1950-1953) was the first - and only - full-scale air war in the jet age.

Karl Bodenschatz was the Richthofen squadron adjutant.

A gripping true account of warfare in the skies over Korea, when American bombers and North Korean jet fighters would change the course of air combat.

Two Up is a collection of aviation anecdotes and photographs covering five decades and going back to the brothers early fascination with aircraft in the sixties.

In Two Up Down Under, Ron and Jim enjoy a road trip around Canberra and the Riverina in Jim's 50-year old VW Kombi, Miss October.

Whilst the Lancaster was acknowledged as being a fearsome bomber, the plane was also vulnerable.

An in-depth history of the time when airpower became the great equalizer, changing military strategy forever and bringing once-safe targets in reach.

In Dawn of D-Day David Howarth weaves together the testimony of hundreds of eye-witnesses and has produced a breath-taking and atmospheric account of the greatest amphibious landing ever attempted.

In Dawn of D-Day David Howarth weaves together the testimony of hundreds of eye-witnesses and has produced a breath-taking and atmospheric account of the greatest amphibious landing ever attempted.

On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York, when a flock of Canada geese collided with it, destroying both of its engines.

The Tiger Moth is one of the major aviation success stories in the history of British aviation.

This is the personal account of an exceptional Spitfire test pilot and RAF and Fleet Air Arm fighter pilot.

This is the personal account of an exceptional Spitfire test pilot and RAF and Fleet Air Arm fighter pilot.

The Tiger Moth is one of the major aviation success stories in the history of British aviation.

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Through his work in motion pictures, Lloyd Bridges appreciated the impact of skin diving upon this medium and presented an exciting picture of future possibilities in underwater photography.

IN THESE PAGES, the reader will meet one of America's foremost seafaring men and explorers.

Boys and girls all over the world know the name of Richard Halliburton.

Boys and girls all over the world know the name of Richard Halliburton.

It was nine long years since the disappearance of Mallory and Irvine on the north face of Mount Everest.

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From time immemorial man has pursued the whale.

THE ROYAL ROAD TO ROMANCE in which a gay young romanticist goes laughing and beating and fighting his vagabond way into the glamorous corners of the world.

THEY FLEW THROUGH THE AIR WITH GREATEST OF EASERichard Halliburton can be counted on to lead his readers into strange places, into hilarious difficulties, into new appreciations of history and romance-and never to qualify his outrageous philosophy of reckless living with a single sober moral.

The story of some of Earl Denman's mountaineering exploits to Africa, culminating in his journey in 1947 through Tibet to Everest with Tenzing Norgay (later to become one of the first two individuals known to reach the summit of Mount Everest) is here told for the first time.

Seven League Boots, which was first published in 1935 and his fifth and final book, details American adventurer Richard Halliburton's epic adventures in a variety of remote places.

In late March of 1958 four men set sail in a thirty-foot ketch, the Golden Rule, for the nuclear-bomb-testing area in the Marshall Islands.

First published in 1930, this is the personal adventure narrative of Henri de Monfreid-nobleman, writer, adventurer and inspiration for the swashbuckling gun runner in the Adventures of Tintin.

First published in 1951, this is the autobiography of Admiral Lord Mountevans, and it is indeed a tale of high spirits.

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With his vast collection of photographs and memorabilia, combined with his skill as a writer, Newell truly makes the ships and memories of them become living personalities.

First published in 1939, this is the gripping account of a voyage in a small sloop from Nova Scotia to the northern coast of Labrador.

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Originally published in 1956, this book is a memoir by Danish explorer Peter Freuchen, a close friend and travel companion of Arctic legend Knud Rasmussen, and ended up living in Greenland for fifteen years, 800 miles from the North Pole-adopting the native ways of life, marrying an Inuit woman, and having two children along the way.

First published in 1939, this book is a vivid account of Richard Maury's voyage from New York to Fiji in the small, 35-foot, Nova Scotia-built schooner Cimba.

THE DARK FRIGATE-Winner of the Newbery Medal.

More than 80 years ago, Caroline Mytinger, a portrait artist, and her childhood friend Margaret Warner set out by freighter from San Francisco with little more than $400 in their pocket and a tin of paints to their name.