Technical

This book looks at the development of the original air-superiority McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, from the F-15A through to the current F-15C, as well as modern upgrades in the pipeline or proposed by Boeing, who from 1997 took over the type.

Night after night for six years of war, RAF Bomber Command's squadrons pounded away at the cities of Nazi Germany in a determined effort to bring the Third Reich to its knees. Pitted against Bomber Harris's aircrews and aircraft were some of the most effective and deadly defenses the world had seen up until then.

The Haynes Falklands War Operations Manual looks at the planning and logistics that made the whole operation possible.

Born in the 1950s when the Cold War was rapidly escalating, the subsonic Blackburn Buccaneer was designed as a carrier-borne strike aircraft, which eventually went on to serve both the Royal Navy and the RAF.

The revolutionary Harrier took to the skies in December 1967, going on to become the star of the Royal Navy and Air Force during the Falkland Islands War in 1982.

Featuring more than 200 highly detailed full colour profiles from world renowned artist Claes Sundin, Luftwaffe Fighters covers every major fighter type flown by the German air force during the Second World War.

Key drivers to a fifth destination for future world fighter forces In time, all fighters will have qualities that deceive, evade, confuse, lock-on to a target and kill it - without being seen, heard or detected There is no place to hide and when the fourth generation know they are under attack - they are already dead. 

The West was stunned when the Soviet Union dropped its first atomic bomb in August 1949. In the wake of the Second World War, funding for the RAF had fallen away dramatically but now there was an urgent need for new jet fighters to meet the threat of Russian bombers head-on. 

In the years that followed Germany's crushing defeat in the First World War, German aviators took to flying gliders - a sport which led to rapid advances in the study of aerodynamics.