Aircraft and aviation

The new air traffic control system is implemented throughout the United States reducing fifteen thousand air traffic controllers to mere monitors.

Pilots like to say that every safe landing is really just a controlled crash.

"e;My Life as an Explorer"e; by Roald Amundsen is a riveting autobiography that chronicles the life and adventures of one of history's greatest explorers.

The memoirs of a hang glider pilot and pioneer and his first-hand account of designing the revolutionary Shadow microlight aircraft.

When we board a modern twenty-first century aircraft, we are all confident of, hopefully, a smooth flight, and delivery, to our destination of choice.

Over the years many weird and wonderful types of transport have come and gone, some of which succeeded against all odds, others that spectacularly failed, and some that never got beyond a designer's drawing board.

This book is the true story of one man's life adventures in the Alaskan Bush.

In this entertaining history of the jetliner, Jay Spenser traces aviation's challenges from the outset, and follows the flow of the simple yet powerful ideas that led us to defy gravity.

“[A] slice of largely-forgotten military history .

This work is an attempt by the authors to give as full and detailed a history as possible of the confrontation between Soviet fighters and the principal strike force of the United States Far East Air Force – the B-29 ‘Superfortress’ bombers during the course of the Korean War between 1950-1953.

This work is an attempt by the authors to give as full and detailed a history as possible of the confrontation between Soviet fighters and the principal strike force of the United States Far East Air Force – the B-29 ‘Superfortress’ bombers during the course of the Korean War between 1950-1953.

A history of the twentieth-century Royal Air Force training programme as told by the men who lived it.

A history of the twentieth-century Royal Air Force training programme as told by the men who lived it.

The 1970s were an event-filled and action packed decade for the Royal Air Force.

A celebration of the life and times of the iconic jet known as the "e;Queen of the Skies"e;.

The 1970s were an event-filled and action packed decade for the Royal Air Force.

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.