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Mosquito
The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary MissionA captivating history ... White used the history of these operations to weave stories of fortitude and courage into the story of a great machine
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Cleared for Takeoff
The Ultimate Book of Flight€ 28,50 -
Vulcan 607
It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943 . . . April 1982. Argentine forces had invaded the Falkland Islands. Britain needed an answer. And fast.The idea was simple: to destroy the vital landing strip at Port Stanley. The reality was more complicated. The only aircraft that could possibly do the job was three months from being scrapped, and the distance it had to travel was four thousand miles beyond its maximum range. It would take fifteen Victor tankers and seventeen separate in-flight refuellings to get one Avro Vulcan B2 over the target, and give its crew any chance of coming back alive.Yet less than a month later, a formation of elderly British jets launched from a remote island airbase to carry out the longest-range air attack in history. At its head was a single aircraft, six men, and twenty-one thousand-pound bombs, facing the hornet's nest of modern weaponry defending the Argentine forces on the Falkland Islands. There would be no second chances . . .
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Vulcan 607
A true Military Aviation classicTHE THRILLING #1 BESTSELLING STORY OF ONE OF THE GREATEST COMBAT MISSIONS EVER FLOWN
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Storm Front
The classic account of a legendary Special Forces battleA GRIPPING SPECIAL FORCES TRUE STORY FOR FANS OF DELTA FORCE, LONE SURVIVOR AND BLACK HAWK DOWN
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Phoenix Squadron
A hi-octane true story of fast jets, big decks and Top Guns'Completely riveting. As gripping as any Tom Clancy thriller' Jeremy Clarkson
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Harrier 809
Britain’s Legendary Jump Jet and the Untold Story of the Falklands WarEight thousand miles from home, its fate hinges on just twenty Sea Harriers against the two hundred-strong might of the Argentine Air Force.The odds against them are overwhelming.The MoD's own estimates suggest that half the Harriers will be lost in the opening days of the conflict.
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Harrier 809
The Epic Story of How a Small Band of Heroes Won Victory in the Air Against Impossible Odds'A COMPELLING, FAST-PACED NARRATIVE THAT THRUSTS US INTO THE COCKPIT. HARRIER 809 IS A MUST READ FOR SERIOUS AVIATION ENTHUSIASTS AND HISTORIANS ALIKE.' DAN HAMPTON
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SAS: Storm Front
The Storming Bestseller from the Author of Harrier 809In early 1970, the Commanding Officer of 22 SAS flew into the strategically critical Sultanate of Oman on a covert intelligence mission to monitor a Communist rebellion threatening the Arabian Peninsula. This book deals with this intelligence mission.
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Into the Black
The electrifying true story of how the first flight of the Space Shuttle nearly ended in disasterOn 12th April 1981 NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia blasted off from Florida on her maiden flight. She was the world's first real spaceship. On board were men with the Right Stuff. The Shuttle's Commander, moonwalker John Young, was already a veteran of five spaceflights. This book tells the complete story of the Space Shuttle.
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Into the Black
The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her€ 22,95 -
Phoenix Squadron
HMS Ark Royal, Britain's last Topguns and the untold story of their most dramatic missionJanuary 1972: the tiny outpost of British Honduras is threatened with imminent invasion by battle-hardened, US-trained Guatemalan paratroops.
€ 17,95