Search results for “[Subject: aviation-general]”

• Author(s): Gerry Manning • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Aviation - GeneralPreserved aircraft can be found around the world, showcasing paint schemes and names that may have been lost to history otherwis...

• Author(s): Key Publishing • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Aviation - GeneralIn the latter half of World War Two, the War Cabinet sanctioned the formation of a committee to consider a post-war world of ai...

• Author(s): Tony Buttler • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceDuring the late 1940s and into the 1950s, a number of British jet fighter and bomber aircraft were fitted with new, ...

• Author(s): Matt Willis • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - AviationThe Fairey Firefly two-seater strike-fighter emerged from troubled beginnings to become one of the most widely used and effective...

• Author(s): Ron Mak • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Aviation - GeneralThis book details the lifecycles of prop aircraft in South America, including construction, sales, service, repossession, and, on occa...

• Author(s): Key Publishing • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Aviation - CommercialIn 1916, William Boeing officially incorporated his new aircraft business. He successfully sold aircraft to the United State...

• Author(s): Jozef Mols • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Aviation - GeneralThe first traces of Polish aviation can be found in 1910. However, one of the first fully domestic airlines, under the name of Aero...

• Author(s): Jozef Mols • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Aviation - GeneralBy 1933, a total of 33 male, and one female, pilots had graduated from Egypt's School of Aviation. At the same time, the Ministry o...

• Author(s): Lee Chapman • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Aviation - History"The author has gathered some great photos for this edition and the book is in landscape format to take advantage of this. Many of...

• Author(s): Matt Falcus • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Aviation - CommercialThe Boeing 737 was developed following the success of the 707 and 727, offering airlines an alternative to the larger models - ...

• Author(s): Key Publishing • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Aviation - CommercialIn January 1955, an industry-wide call from American Airlines for a new aircraft resulted in Lockheed's newest creation - th...

• Author(s): Scott Cuong Tran • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - AviationRed Flag is the world's premier air-to-air combat exercise. Run by the US Air Force from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, it...

• Author(s): Chris Goss • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - AviationThe Soci�t� Europ�enne de Production de l'avion �cole de Combat et d'Appui Tactique (SEPECAT) Jaguar and Hawker Siddeley Harrier p...

• Author(s): Key Publishing • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Aviation - CommercialIt is fair to say that the DC-3 was the very first true airliner, and it paved the way for the hundreds of increasingly adva...

• Author(s): Gerry Manning • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceWith over 150 images, this book will show the variety of preserved aircraft of all types, both civil and military, ...

• Author(s): Key Publishing • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Aviation - HistoryWhile not the first aircraft manufacturer in Britain, Bristol had the distinct advantage of being created by a well-established...

• Author(s): Scott Cuong Tran • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceThis book showcases over 150 images of some of the best restored World War Two aircraft that have been made airw...

• Author(s): Key Publishing • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpacePrompted by a request from Howard Hughes (and TWA) in 1939, Lockheed's team broke the mold of early airliner desig...

• Author(s): Key Publishing • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceGreat Britain was once filled with a plethora of aircraft manufacturers. The seeds of many of them were sown as th...

• Author(s): Tom Kaminski • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - AviationThe US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created in response to terrorist attacks that were carried out against the Unit...

• Author(s): Christopher Buckley • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Aviation - HistoryWhen the Soviet Union fell in December 1991, there were close to 3,500 assorted Soviet-built airliners that could be deeme...

• Author(s): Henri-Pierre Grolleau • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceThis highly illustrated volume looks at the French Air Force as it sees the withdrawal of the Transall Gabr...

• Author(s): Chris Gibson • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - AviationModern strategists talk about "force multipliers," and, for air operations, air-to-air refueling is without doubt the greatest f...

• Author(s): Eduardo Manuel Gil Martínez • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceAt the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939, the Air Ministry was created and, on 7 October of that y...

• Author(s): Bob Archer • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceLoved by most associated personnel and enthusiasts alike, the C-141 Starlifter, quite simply, looked right and was rig...

• Author(s): Tony Paxton • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - AviationThe Cold War saw the once-allies of the Second World War pitted against each other in a power play that was to last more than thr...

• Author(s): Chris Gibson • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - AviationA key component in any armed force, helicopters operate in a range of roles not only previously filled by aircraft but also many...

• Author(s): Key Publishing • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceFounded in 1910, A. V. Roe and Company Limited built its first military aircraft two years later. By 1914, the com...

• Author(s): Gerry Manning • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Aviation - HistoryAll decades of aviation have important developments and changes. In the 2000s, the European Airbus consortium finally overtook B...

• Author(s): Eduardo Manuel Gil Martínez • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceThe Spanish Air Force was born in October 1939, following the Spanish Civil War. Starting life from t...

• Author(s): Jozef Mols • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Aviation - CommercialThe history of China Airlines as flag carrier of the Republic of China (Taiwan) goes back to the development of aviation on main...

• Author(s): Patrick Roegies • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - AviationThe United States Naval Aviation service celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2011 and since then it has continued to be at th...

• Author(s): Tony Buttler • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceDevelopment of the Hawker Hunter began in 1946 under the steady hand of chief designer Sydney Camm. With so many adv...

• Author(s): Key Publishing • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Aviation - CommercialOn 20 August 1963, the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) One-Eleven flew for the first time. There was a lot riding on this...

• Author(s): Chris Goss • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceThis book explores the reconnaissance aircraft used by the British armed forces in the 1970s and '80s, namely the Avro...

• Author(s): Chris Gibson • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceFrom their modest origins with BE.2c and Vickers Victoria biplanes delivering food and ammunition in the Mesopotamia...