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  • The Projects of Skunk Works

    75 Years of Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs

    by Steve Pace ...
    The stories behind more than 50 secret projects undertaken by the famed Lockheed Martin Skunk Works on behalf of the US Armed Forces, DARPA, and the CIA - all illustrated with official Skunk Works photography and commissioned artworks.Hatched in June 1943 after a special request of the US Army Air Forces to develop a turbojet-powered fighter to counter growing German threats, Lockheed Martin's ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Big Book of X-Bombers & X-Fighters

    USAF Jet-Powered Experimental Aircraft and Their Propulsive Systems

    by Steve Pace ...
    They're all here--every X-bomber and X-fighter since 1942.On October 2, 1942, the Bell XP-59 Airacomet soared up and away from present-day Edwards AFB, launching the US Army Air Forces into the Jet Age. In the several decades since, hundreds of new variations of experimental and test turbojet-powered bombers and fighters--X-bombers and X-fighters--have taken explosive flight. These aircraft blazed ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • B-25 Mitchell Units of the MTO

    by Steve Pace ...
    Series Book 32 - Combat Aircraft
    From November 1942 through to May 1945, the backbone of the USAAF's medium bomber force was provided by the clutch of bomb groups equipped with the B-25 Mitchell.First seeing action in North Africa in the wake of Operation Torch, and in the Battle of El Alamein, the 'bombing twin' proved to be one of the most successful allied combat types in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations (MTO).The first ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • In the Cockpit II

    Inside History-Making Aircraft of World War II

    by National Space Museum ...
    In the Cockpit II: Inside History-Making Aircraft of World War II provides close-up access to the instrument panels, controls, and crew stations of 34 legendary World War II aircraft in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's impressive collection. Using a high-end digital camera with a wide-angle lens and complex shooting techniques that combine digital precision with manual dexterity, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Take Off! How Aeroplanes Work for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Have you ever boarded a plane? It has the technology to take you up the sky but do you really understand how it works? Now is your chance to learn more about the workings of airplanes. This is a book that will definitely attract little learners. The information has been carefully chosen and presented in a highly interactive way. Go ahead and grab a copy today. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World

    When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World

    by James Hamilton-Paterson ...
    In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft -- a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a fighter. The Hawker Hunter, the most beautiful fighter-jet ever built and the Lightning, which ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Imperial Naval Air Service

    by Peter J. Edwards ...
    This book describes in considerable detail the people, events ships and aircraft that shaped the Air Service from its origins in the late 19th century to its demise in 1945. The formative years began when a British Naval Mission was established in Japan in 1867 to advise on the development of balloons for naval purposes. After the first successful flights of fixed-wing aircraft in the USA and ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Faster Than The Sun

    The Compelling Story of a Record-Breaking Test Pilot and WWII Navy Flyer

    by Peter Twiss ...
    The autobiography of the Fairey Aviation test pilot and Naval fighter pilot who broke the World Air Speed Record in 1956.This autobiography of Peter Twiss, the man who flew 1000mph for the first time in history, tells the story of the record-breaking Fairey Delta. It describes the vast organization necessary for the record bid, the political lobbying, and the almost intolerable tension when the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Aviators

    Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight

    by Winston Groom ...
    Written by gifted storyteller Winston Groom (author of Forrest Gump), The Aviators tells the saga of three extraordinary aviators--Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle--and how they redefine heroism through their genius, daring, and uncommon courage. This is the fascinating story of three extraordinary heroes who defined aviation during the great age of flight. These cleverly ... Read more

    $15.05 CAD

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  • Skunk Works

    A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed

    by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos ...
    This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" (New York Times Book Review).From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Baling Out

    Amazing Dramas of Military Flying

    by Robert Jackson ...
    To bale out of a stricken airplane is a pilot's or aircrew's final chance to escape death. It is a traumatic and hazardous exercise that is only practiced in extremis and is in itself full of danger with no guarantee of survival. Many struggled free of a flaming and spinning aircraft only to see their parachute alight above them, some were machine gunned to death by their opponents as they drifted ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kamikaze

    Japanese Special Attack Weapons 1944–45

    by Steven J. Zaloga ...
    Series Book 180 - New Vanguard
    Following the destruction of much of the Japanese fleet and air arms in the later half of 1944, in desperation, the Imperial Japanese Navy proposed using “special attack” formations, or suicide attacks.These initially consisted of crude improvisations of conventional aircraft fitted with high-explosive bombs that could be crashed into US warships. Called “Divine Wind” (Kamikaze), the special ... Read more

    $17.29 CAD