Aerospace and aviation technology

This is a fighter pilot's memoir of four tumultuous years, 1938-1942, when he was first trained, then fought and survived in not one but two of the biggest aerial campaigns of the war, the Battle of Britain and the equally epic, but lesser known, Siege of Malta.

'I saw a mass of ME 109s and went up to attack.

During the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone, defying the Luftwaffe's aerial assault - the prelude to a proposed seaborne invasion.

In the summer of 1940, the fate of Britain hung in the balance.

This book is full of untold short stories of men who created a legend, the legend of the British airborne forces during the Second World War.

The Avro Lancaster took the RAF's bombing campaign right to the heart of Nazi Germany, night after night, despite sometimes suffering appalling losses.

On 4 July 1942, American airmen flew in US-built bombers against a German target for the first time.

Manfred, Freiherr von Richthofen, was the top ace of the First World War, with eighty confirmed victories.

Volume 4 of We Were Eagles reaches the climax of the daylight bomber war which saw the Eighth Air Force B-17s and B-24s push back the boundaries and huge fleets of bombers penetrate further into the diminishing Reich.

Volume 3 of We Were Eagles covers the turning of the tide, when the air war was redirected to bombing communications targets in northern France in support of the 6 June D-Day invasion and the eventual breakout by Allied forces from the beachheads.

The Americans' second year of the war saw the Eighth Air Force finally bombing Berlin, or 'Big-B' as it was known.

The four years between 1914 and 1918 saw an incredible growth in air power.

Spitfire Voices represents an important oral history of the Spitfire from the fighter pilot's perspective.

Wessex - for our purposes Dorset and Wiltshire, along with the western parts of Hampshire and Berkshire - has been part of Britain's aviation industry for over a hundred years.

On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland.

1943 saw the tide of war change fully in the Allies' favour.

On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland.

On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland.

What Manfred von Richthofen was to Germany, Albert Ball was to Great Britain: each, at the time, was the star turn of his country and Richthofen would describe Ball as 'by far the best English flying man'.

On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland.

Though less iconic than the nimble Spitfire, the Hawker Hurricane was a vital stalwart in the British war effort.

From day one of the Second World War to the last, fighter pilots from Derbyshire were active.

There can be few world-class companies that boast the heritage and traditions inherent in the British Airways brand.

Guy Gibson's 617 Squadron was founded for one reason only - Operation Chastise - the raid on the Ruhr dams.

From World War Two to the present day, the aircraft carrier has been a potent display of the might of the US Navy.

Spitfire and Hurricane fighter pilots recount their experiences of combat during the Battle of Britain.

During the 1930s the need for a municipal aerodrome near Watford was debated at length, but it took almost a decade before the Air Ministry ultimately requisitioned the land at Leavesden for an aircraft factory.

This is the Battle of Britain memoir of Roger Hall, a 152 Squadron Spitfire pilot based in southern England, the heart of the fighting during the epic battle.

The Battle of Britain started on 10 July 1940, ending 16 weeks later on 31 October 1940.

The remarkable Battle of Britain experiences of Spitfire pilot Brian Lane, DFC.

It was not long before midnight on 17 May 1943 when the inhabitants of Gunne, the German village close to the Mohne Dam, heard the airraid warnings.

Written by 43 Squadron's intelligence officer, Hector Bolitho, Finest of the Few is full of John's first-hand accounts of his combat missions against German Me 109s, Heinkel 111s and Dorniers.

Johnnie Johnson is a character literally straight out of the pages of ' Boys Own'.

Asked why he was in Britain, a US serviceman, fighting the war in the skies over Germany with the US 8th Air Force quipped, 'We're here to win the war for you'.

The amazing story of one of the 'Few', fighter ace Tom Neil who shot down 13 enemy aircraft during the Battle of Britain.

How to fly the legendary fighter plane in combat using the manuals and instructions supplied by the RAF during the Second World War.

Flying boats have been a familiar sight in the Solent since the dawn of aviation.

Geoffrey's memoir opens in May 1940, when he was eighteen years old and his grammar school in Kent was being evacuated to Staffordshire, away from the danger of German invasion.

The Battle of Britain memoir of Hurricane pilot Barry Sutton, DFC.

Investigations in space have led to fundamental discoveries of the human body to the space environment.

"e;Interplanetary Outpost"e; follows the mission architecture template of NASA's plan for Human Outer Planet Exploration (HOPE), which envisions sending a crew to the moon Callisto to conduct exploration and sample return activities.

Spacesuits are far more than garments.

Sensors, Instrumentation and Special Topics, Volume 6.

In this book, Dr.

Linking Models and Experiments, Volume 2.

Advanced Aerospace Applications, Volume 1.

Modal Analysis Topics Volume 3.

This volume, like the others, not only focuses upon the individual missions within the decade but also upon key challenges facing human space exploration at specific points within those years - from the problems of simply breathing and eating in space to the challenges of venturing outside in a pressurized spacesuit, the development of newer and better space toilets, and the difficulties of locomotion on the Moon.

Brian Harvey recounts for the first time the definitive history of scientific Russian space probes and the knowledge they acquired of the Earth, its environment, the Moon, Mars and Venus.

Navigation in Space by X-ray Pulsars will consist of two parts.