Product Description: Nearly fifty years have passed but outrage, anger and disbelief still continue to pour out in volume on UK aviation forums to this day over the controversial scrapping of the TSR2.Reports of the day indicated that the completed aircraft were to be destroyed on the test range at Shoeburyness...read more

Product Description: THERE WAS ONE THING THEY COULDN’T LIVE WITHOUT: FREEDOM. On the rainy afternoon of Friday, July 13, 1956, seven desperate young people boarded a twin engine DC-3 in the People’s Republic of Hungary, with the intention of diverting it to West Germany...read more

Product Description: When it first flew in 1957, the Avro Arrow was the world's best supersonic combat aircraft. Designed to protect Canada against the military threat posed by the Soviet Union, it was the proudest achievement of the engineers and designers who came out of Canada's world-leading aircraft industry...read more

Product Description: The ‘Swinging Sixties’ was a remarkable decade. For the Royal Air Force it was a most interesting period in their history, representing a period of base closures, contraction and a significant change in equipment - especially in the level of technology operated...read more

Product Description: For aviation, the 1950s was a fascinating decade. For the Royal Air Force, it witnessed the transition from propeller to jet aircraft in the fields of fighter, bomber, trainer and transport aircraft. The 1950s saw the end of the Second World War veterans - Lancasters, Spitfires, Mosquitoes and Sunderlands...read more

Product Description: The author, Roger Annett, experienced firsthand the events detailed here. Flying with 215 Squadron, and co-piloting Argosy transport aircraft deep over Malayan jungle terrain from 1963 to 65, he is well placed to provide a colorful account of this dramatic period...read more

Product Description: When two Navy F-14 Tomcats engaged and shot down two Sukhoi Su-22 jet fighters in 1981, they drew on experience and tactics that they had learned from a previous encounter with MiG jet fighters. The difference between the two encounters was that in the first, the enemy fighters were flown by American pilots assigned to a top secret squadron hidden at a remote airfield in the ultra-secret Tonopah Nuclear Test range, Nevada...read more

Product Description: The French Vautour was designed to serve as an attack aircraft, bomber and nightfighter. Israel purchased all three versions and was the only nation to operate all three types. Sqdn.110 recon Vautours collected imagery crucial for IAF Operation Focus, the pre-emptive strike that opened the June 1967 Six Day War...read more

During the mid-1950s the United States Air Force was given its most powerful single-seat, two-engine fighter to date. The Voodoo would be deployed before the end of that decade in the tactical nuclear bomber and tactical reconnaissance roles world-wide, and in homeland defense with the two-seat, all-weather variant. In December 1957 it took the World Air Speed Record to Mach 1.6 - over one and a half times faster than the sound barrier.This book looks at the evolution of the original design and its introduction into service. Chapters cover operations in Korea, Vietnam, the Cuban Crisis and in Europe during the Cold War years. Many first-hand accounts from pilots are included and the author's own experiences with the aircraft are given with fascinating insight.The Voodoo was an elegant, mean-looking fighting machine that epitomized fast flying in the fifties and sixties. It continues to be a revered airplane.

The Old Drama and The New is William Archer's thorough criticism of the theatre - a collection of fourteen lectures delivered at King's College on the history and progressions of Western theatres. The lectures are a careful examination of the forces which shaped theatre and the men and women who produced the most lasting plays of their time. Lectures include: The Elizabethan Legend (blank verse, soliloquies and asides, plays of Jonson, Chapman, Middleton and Massinger), The Restoration to the Renaissance (romance and tragedy, the plays of Dryden, Restoration Comedy, Congreve, modern playwrights ? Oscar Wilde, Henrik Ibsen, intellectual plays of Galsworthy and Shaw, the evolution of modern drama, and many more. Archer was a Scottish author, critic, and translator. Throughout his life he worked as drama critic on several London newspapers. He influenced the direction of English and American drama through his active interest in the work of the great Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. He translated Ibsen's Pillars of Society, and largely through his efforts the play was the first Ibsen play to be produced (1880) in London. Archer's writings include Masks of Faces (1888), The Old Drama and the New (1923), and several plays, including the highly successful melodrama The Green Goddess (1923).

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