Scale Aircraft Modelling - January 2023
English | 102 pages | True PDF | 34 MB

Derek N. James- Gloster Aircraft Since 1917
Putnam | 1971 | ISBN: 0370000846 | English | 446 pages | PDF | 147.11 MB
The story of Gloster Aircraft Company is one of great technical achievement paving the way followed by many other companies, and of commercial successes, with rewarding production counted in thousands, interspersed with frustrating years in the aviation wilderness when 'one-offs' were the sole result of enormous expenditure of time, money and effort on private venture design. It is the story of an engineering company born of war, in a fashionable spa, which, several wars later, wa overtaken by the pace of world events to become the first victim of a programme of political and economic stringency which ha since decimated British aircraft manufacturing companies.

Model Aircraft Extra – Issue 4 P-51 Mustang – November 2022
English | 86 Pages | PDF | 28.21 MB

Model Aircraft Extra - Issue 4 P-51 Mustang - November 2022
English | 86 pages | True PDF | 28 MB

Combat Aircraft - January 2023
English | 100 pages | PDF | 77.2 MB

Scale Aircraft Modelling - December 2022
English | 94 pages | True PDF | 32 MB

Jerzy B. Cynk - Polish Aircraft 1893-1939
Putnam | 1971 | ISBN: 0370000854 | English | 760 pages | PDF | 105.5 MB
Jerzy Cynk has created a very good compendium of Polish Aircraft from the well known to the total unknown. Many photos and line drawings with the detail differences betweent the various models as well as the unbuilt designs. Poland was one of the most advanced aircraft manufacturers until the Great Depression, including aircraft one of first tail-sitters in 1919, to the first ejection system in 1925. The first V-tailed aircraft, etc. This book covers a difficult subject with a well written account of the subject.

Philip Jarrett - Pioneer Aircraft: Early Aviation Before 1914 (Putnam's History of Aircraft)
Putnam | 2002 | ISBN: 0851778690 | English | 255 pages | PDF | 119.64 MB
This volume covers aviation from its earliest beginnings up to the outbreak of the First World War. It begins with the first theories and experiments in flight, including the attempts to fly by jumping from towers and the experiences of the lighter-than-air flight using balloons. It then analyses the experiments with kites and models in an attempt to understand the principles of aerodynamics. All this leads up to the first successful powered flights, culminating in the achievement of the Wright Brothers, whose flight at Kitty Hawk represented the first successful powered, sustained, and controlled flight. The remainder of the book covers the creation of an aeroplane industry - putting aeroplanes to work, refining airframes and engines, adapting aeroplanes to fly from water, and understanding safety issues.

John Wegg - General Dynamics Aircraft and their Predecessors (Putnam Aviation Series)
Putnam Aeronautical | 1990 | ISBN: 0870212338 | English | 255 pages | PDF | 118.46 MB

The World's Greatest Military Aircraft: An Illustrated History by Thomas Newdick
English | August 1, 2015 | ISBN: 1782742638 | 224 pages | PDF | 24 Mb
Ever since man first took to the air, combat aircraft have been at the cutting edge of aviation technology, resulting in some of the greatest and most complex designs ever built. The World's Greatest Military Aircraft features 52 of the most important military aircraft of the last hundred years. The book includes all the main types, from biplane fighters and carrier aircraft to tactical bombers, transport aircraft, multirole fighters, strategic strike aircraft and stealth bombers. Featured aircraft include: the Fokker Dr.1 triplane, the legendary fighter flown by German flying ace Manfred von Richthofen, 'the Red Baron', during World War I; the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, Japan's highly-manoeuvrable fighter that dominated air-to-air combat in the early part of the Pacific War; the tank-busting Il-2 Shturmovik, the most produced aircraft in World War II; the Harrier jump jet, a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fighter that has been service for more than 40 years; the B-2 Spirit bomber, an American precision strike aircraft used in recent conflicts in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan; and the F-22 Raptor, an air superiority fighter with state-of-the-art stealth technology that makes it almost invisible to radars.