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Boulton-Paul Defiant When we first launched this series, the Boulton Paul Defiant was high up the list of potential subjects. The problem was always a lack of enough photos to do a decent job. Apart from a few well known Press sessions with 264 Squadron, the Defiant was rarely photographed, especially when compared to other RAF front line aircraft. It was only this year, when discussing potential subjects with our regular auth...
Fairey Swordfish
When you consider that the Swordfish entered service way back in 1936 and was still flying operationally at the end of WW2, with the same engine (!), you start to realise what a significant aircraft it was.
It was very slow and lacked manoeuvrability, but it could deliver bombs, torpedoes, depth charges and rockets more accurately than most of its competitors and replacements! Indeed, by the end of the wa...
De Havilland Mosquito Part 4. As you may remember from Part Three of our Mosquito set, we had to spread the FB Mk.VIs over two volumes as we simply had too much material to squeeze into one. This Part Four therefore covers Coastal Command, 100 Group and other uses of the FB VI as well as the TseTse Mk.XVIII which was of course an FB Mk.VI with a big gun slung underneath!
Our author Ian Thirsk was Head of Collections and Res...
Boeing B-17 Fortress in RAF Service by Andrew Thomas and Simon W Parry
Paperback
Pages: 72
Illustrations:
approx 120 photos and 6 colour profiles
Before America declared war, Churchill was keen to get US aircraft into the RAF, if only for propaganda. In the autumn of 1940 the British tried to buy some B-17s, but were told that the few B-17s available were all earmarked for the USAAC. However, they were persuaded to part...
Junkers Ju-88A-1/A-5
In the early days of this Photo Archive series, we published a trilogy of volumes on the Me109 in the Battle of Britain and a single volume on the He111 also in the Battle of Britain. At the time, we struggled to find high quality photos for these books, so we made them more about the units rather than the aircraft detail itself. They sold well, but didn't quite fit in with the style of the WPA series, so...
Handley Page Night Bombers 0/100, 0/400 & V/1500 Author: W.A. Harrison
By William Harrison
The Handley Page 0/100, 0/400 and V/1500 were the first true heavy bombers of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force during the First World War, giving Britain the long-range striking power needed for strategic bombing deep into Germany. Designed initially with a 114ft wingspan (later 100ft), folding wings, armour protection an...
Grumman OV-1 Mohawk By Mike Verier
Grumman's OV-1 Mohawk was unquestionably the most versatile aircraft the US Army ever had, but so secret were its capabilities and missions that only now, three decades after leaving Army service, can the full story be revealed, the author drawing on first hand accounts, previously unpublished archives and newly de-classified material. Covered in detail are early concepts - which even incl...
Boeing B-47 Stratojet. By Kev Darling
When Strategic Air Command was formed in 1947 its few flying units were equipped with the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Few of these aircraft were fit for flight and the crews were under-trained. It would be General Curtis E. LeMay who transformed the entire organisation. Not only would SAC's performance be vastly improved, it would also begin receiving aircraft capable of delivering nucl...