Though the C-135 was originally designed over forty years ago as an aerial refueling tanker, (749 of the 820 were built as tankers), more than 600 ...

This book is a grand, full-color celebration of the great North American air shows. Philip Handlemans camera captures the great variety of civilian...

This is the first book to detail the design and service history of the U.S. Navy?s first airplane, and presents the formative years of naval aviati...

This book is a lavishly illustrated story of Curtiss Wright Corporation's 1950s and 1960s efforts in developing a vertical takeoff (VTOL) aircraft....

A large number of people in the United States had their first airplane ride in a Ford Tri-Motor during the 1920s and 1930s, a plane that remains to...

Covers the aircraft and many pilots of JG 3, JG 5, JG 51, JG 52, JG 54 and JG 77.

Willy Messerschmitt (1898-1978) was indisputably one of the most significant of Germany’s aeronautical design engineers. This book examines Messers...

Shows the developmental history of every German airplane utilized in the aerial attack and reconnaissance roles. The many types, variants, and mode...

This volume, the second in a mulit-volume history of German aviation, discusses the life work of one of Germany's greatest aircraft designers in pi...

The Horten Brothers and Their All-Wing Aircraft is the heretofore untold true story of Reimar, Wolfram, and Walter Horten's remarkable aeronautical...

Horten brothers biographer David Myhra continues his efforts for a full accounting of the events surrounding the design, construction, and flight t...

Horten brothers biographer David Myhra continues his efforts for a full accounting of the events surrounding the design, construction, and flight t...

The writing of this book, the first in-depth and fully detailed research about the early years of the Chel Ha'avir †from the light-plane days to ...

Formed in August 1944, Jagdgeschwader 7 was equipped with the revolutionary Me 262 jet fighter, which was faster than any aircraft in existence at ...

This classic book now makes its first appearance in English. Long out-of-print this study is one of the few books dedicated to the history of the i...

This new large format photo collection covers Luftwaffe aircraft from the years 1933-1945 and includes chapters on: Pilot Training Schools, Reconna...

Operational and technical history of Germany's World War II jet bomber and reconnaissance aircraft.

Operational and technical history of Germany's World War II jet fighter aircraft.

Technical history of Germany's World War II experiments with vertical takeoff aircraft, including the Natter and other rare and unusual types.