Pen Sword Aviation imprint: 311 books
by Graham Simons
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Jack Northrop’s flying wings - or to give them their more correct title, all wing aircraft - were some of the most spectacular, graceful and elegant flying machines ever to grace the skies. A design as aeronautically pure as a flying wing had huge advantages over conventional aircraft design. This...
History of British European Airways
1946 - 1972
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
BEA was formed in 1946 and took over most UK domestic and European routes under the British government's nationalisation policy. It began operations with a fleet of outdated and hopelessly uneconomic passenger aircraft that were derivatives of wartime types such as the DC-3, Avro Viking and Rapide....
Flying from My Mind
Innovative and Record-breaking Microlight and Aircraft Designs
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
This fascinating story begins in 1973 when David Cook built a glider in an attempt to win the Selsey Birdman Rally – an annual event where all types of creations are launched from the end of Bognor Pier. Between 1975 and 1977 he won every National and International hang gliding competition entered...
VC10: Icon of the Skies
BOAC, Boeing and a Jet Age Battle
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Other books have charted the VC10 in airline life, but this book blends that story with a well-researched tale of corporate and political power play. It asks; just what lay behind the sales failure of the VC1O?
Politics played an important part of course, as did BOAC’s tactics, and a ’who...
Night Fighter over Germany
Flying Beaufighters and Mosquitoes in World War 2
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
These are the highly evocative wartime memoirs of a young NCO pilot whose operational experience was with Beaufighters and Mosquitoes flying in the long-range night-fighter role. It is not a gung-ho account of daring-do, but a 'warts and all' story of what life was really like in that time of international...
by Tim Ripley
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2004
The book is a photo-journalistic record of the vitally important role that aviation played in the recent liberation of Iraq. It follows the part that American, British and Australian airpower played in each theatre of the campaign. It includes the many different missions that aircraft were tasked...
by Martin Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
This fourth volume of a comprehensive five part work on D-Day covers every aspect of aerial operations on and behind the beaches at 'Omaha' and 'Utah' beaches on 6 June 1944. It might be imagined that the passing years would blunt the outlines of the experience but the D-Day veterans do not forget....
Target for Tonight
A pilot's memoirs of flying long-range reconnaissance and Pathfinder missions in World War II.
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
The author was born of a well-to-do Yorkshire family and joined the Auxiliary Air Force on his eighteenth birthday in 1939. On the occasion of Chamberlain's speech to the British nation on September 3 the situation changed dramatically and from being a 'super weekend club', his squadron was assigned...
Night and Day Bomber Offensive
Allied Airmen in World World II Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
For much of World War II England provided the only western European base from which the British and American air forces could take the war into Nazi-occupied Europe and Germany itself. The American Eighth and Ninth Air Forces struck enemy targets by day at great distances, often on raids of eight...
English Electric Canberra
The History and Development of a Classic Jet
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
This amazing airplane first flew in 1949 and is still in front-line service with the RAF. It has served in a variety of roles including those of tactical bomber, photo-reconnaissance, navigational trainer, maritime strike, electronic countermeasures and target-towing. It was manufactured in the USA...
Night of the Intruders
The Slaughter of Homeward Bound USAAF Mission 311
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
This is the full account of USAAF Mission 311 on 22 April 1944 when American bombers suffered their highest ever loss to German intruders. The German fighters followed the air armada home after the raid, picking individual bombers off on their return over Europe and then over England as the American...
On Laughter-Silvered Wings
The Story of Lt. Col. E.T (Ted) Strever D.F.C
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
This well written and thoroughly researched biographical account of the life and times of a South African WW2 pilot (the author's father) is sure to appeal widely. The story is by necessity highly personal, drawing on family history and changing lifestyles as the central figure fights his way through...
Flight Craft 5: Sukhoi Su-15
The 'Boeing Killer”
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In the late 1950s, the Sukhoi Design Bureau, already an established fighter maker, started work on a successor to its Su-9 and Su-11 single-engined interceptors for the national Air Defence Force. Similar to its predecessors, the new aircraft designated Su-15 had delta wings; unlike the Su-9/Su-11,...
Through the Eyes of the Worlds Fighter Aces
The Greatest Fighter Pilots of World War Two
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
This is the story of the fighter aces who flew throughout the war in many different operational theatres. The book opens with the first Polish Aces during the German invasion and continues with Finlands pilots in the Winter War against the Soviets. There follows the battle for France with the experiences...