After flying fighter aircraft, Tug Wilson became an instructor/mentor/coach and father-figure at the RAF's fighter pilot school at RAF Valley in the 1990s. This book offers a personal and honest look behind the scenes at the RAF, documenting the exciting and intense journey to become a fighter pilot.
A comprehensive assessment of the complex personality and work of the self-taught designer of the iconic Spitfire, from tough railway apprenticeship to uncertain production of his 'killer fighter'. Popular myths about the man and his work are re-examined particularly via colleagues' recollections and new material from the Julian Mitchell archive.
The Greatest Multi-Role Aircraft of the Cold War 1
An aviation legend designed in the mid-1940s, the Canberra entered service in 1951 with RAF Bomber Command. It served in the conventional, interdictor and nuclear bomber role with the RAF, in the UK, Germany, the Middle East and Far East. Its performance and adaptability made it ideal as a reconnaissance aircraft, and the final version, the ......
This book contains a history of all United States Air Force Tactical Air Command flying units that were resident in the United Kingdom during the period 1950 to 1992. 'From the cockpit' testimony from aircrew who were assigned to the individual squadrons and wings is an integral part of the narrative; which is supported by 467 illustrations, 168 ......
A comprehensive and meticulously researched landmark work charting the construction, operational history and post-war use of the airfields of the RAF and USAAF in the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Supported by a wealth of 690 photographs and airfield plans providing a unique illustration into the life of each wartime airfield.
Combat gliders were called by some as Death Crates, Purple Heart Boxes, Flying Coffins and Tow Targets. This work is dedicated to those brave men under impossible odds from the British and American servicemen on D-Day, the doomed Operation Market Garden in Holland and Hitler's radical commando raid to rescue Mussolini.
The story of General Stanislaw Skalski, VM & bar, KW & 3bars, DSO, DFC & 2bars, the leading Polish fighter ace, who gallantly served from the first to the last day of the Second World War. Back in communist Poland, he was arrested for spying for Britain, sentenced to death but finally released following eight years in prison.
This book covers Bomber Command from creation in 1936 to 1945. In parallel with Fighter Command's initial defensive fallibility, the means to hammer the Axis industrial base into oblivion was totally lacking and had to be painfully built up to the point where the Force decisively added its weight to bring about an ultimate Allied Victory.
This is how it feels to be a Cold War front-line fighter pilot. Fly in the Phantom with the author and follow him into the bar for some epic nights of drinking. The triumphs and the disasters are all laid out here in a completely open and honest way as the author looks back with a certain sense of nostalgia and mild embarrassment. What a blast!
