Pen And Sword Aviation imprint: 304 books
by Ian Philpott
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Ian Philpott presents us here with a compendium of facts, operational histories and photo illustrations, combined to create a comprehensive account of the early years of the Royal Air Force. Illustrated throughout, it features details of all military operations from 1914 to 1918 which impacted upon...
Fallen Eagles
Airmen Who Survived The Great War Only to Die in Peacetime
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
The 50 pilots featured in Fallen Eagles were all decorated for bravery during The Great War. All survived the conflict only to die flying in the postwar years. The causes of their deaths ranged from being casualties of small wars, then as now rife in the Middle East, mechanical failure or pilot error....
by John Frayn Turner
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
This unique book, now republished, was the first of its kind to be published on British aircraft of the Second World War. Aviation enthusiasts and aero-modellers can see British aircraft as they really were, through magnificently reproduced colour photographs. Each of the forty-nine types of aircraft...
On the Edge of Flight
A Lifetime in the Development and Engineering of Aircraft
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
This is the story of Eric William Absolon, a relentlessly enthusiastic Aviation champion, whose lifelong love of aircraft has never wavered throughout his long and varied career. From boyhood fascination to the adult realization of his ambitions, this first-hand account takes in some of the key events...
by Keith Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This photographic record of the RAF during the 1950s looks set to appear widely. Featuring varied and dynamic visual representation throughout, the events of this important decade are enlivened to great effect.
The 1950s was a pivotal decade in aviation for many reasons. The RAF were employed...
The Millionaires' Squadron
The Remarkable Story of 601 Squadron and the Flying Sword
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Imagined by an aristocrat in White's Club, London in 1925, a part-time squadron of wealthy young men with their own private aircraft was incorporated into a newly-established combat-ready Auxiliary Air Force, first as bombers, then fighters. The pre-war years combined serious training with frivolity...
by Graham Simons
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
This new volume from the respected and well-regarded aviation historian and author Graham Simons is sure to appeal to all aviation enthusiasts, including as it does a wide array of historical sources and archival information drawn together into one consolidated volume – the closest to a definitive...
Secrets of the Spitfire
The Story of Beverly Shenstone, The Man Who Perfected the Elliptical Wing
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
This book tells the tale of the brilliant aerodynamicist Beverley Shenstone MASc, HonFRAes, FAIAA,AFIAS, FCASI, HonOSTIV. As R.J. Mitchells chief aerodynamicist, it was Shenstone who designed the Spitfires wing the wing that gave the Spitfire it crucial advantage in the Battle of Britain and beyond....
by Martin Derry, Neil Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Developed to intercept increasingly capable Soviet bombers such as the Tupolev Tu-16, Tu-22 and Tu-95, the English Electric/BAC Lightning had a phenomenal rate of climb, a high ceiling, and a top speed of over 1,300mph at 36,000ft, and is a favourite of both aviation enthusiasts and aircraft modellers...
Lighter Than Air
The Life and Times of Wing Commander N.F. Usborne RN, Pioneer of Naval Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Neville Florian Usborne entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1897. In the years between him joining up and the outbreak of the First World War, he engaged in a huge number of enterprises and endeavours. Praise and respect garnered in accordance with his achievements all helped to establish his reputation...
by Philip Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The first aircraft carriers made their appearance in the early years of World War I. These first flattops were improvised affairs built on hulls that had been laid down with other purposes in mind, and it was not until the 1920s that the first purpose-built carriers were launched, but no-one was as...
Mitsubishi Zero
Japan's Legendary Fighter
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
The Mitsubishi Zero is one of the great legendary fighter aircraft ever to have graced the skies. Symbolic of the might of Imperial Japan, she represented a peak of developmental prowess in the field of aviation during the early years of the Second World War. Engineered with manoeuvrability in mind,...
Supermarine Spitfire MKV
The Mark V and its Variants
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
The story of the Supermarine Spitfire has been told across many years and the debate about it is enduring, yet the Spitfire remains a true icon. For aviation enthusiasts, for historians, for modellers, the word Spitfire conjures many stories and affections. This book presents the Spitfire enthusiast...
Combat Over the Trenches
Oswald Watt, Aviation Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
'Father of the Flying Corps' and 'Father of Australian Aviation' were two of the unofficial titles conferred on Oswald ("Toby") Watt when he died in tragic circumstances shortly after the end of the First World War. He had become the Australian Army's first qualified pilot in 1911, but spent the first...