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Aircraft Book Reviews – by title

May 26, 2024 By Adam Brown

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Specific Modelling-related Books : Series

Airframe & Miniature Series

  • Airframe & Miniature No.1 (2nd edition) – The Messerschmitt Me 262, Airframe and Miniature No.1 Second Edition
  • Airframe & Miniature No.2 – The Hawker Typhoon
  • The Hawker Typhoon, Airframe and Miniature – No.2 Third Edition
  • Airframe & Miniature No.3 – The Focke-Wulf Fw190D and Ta 152
  • Airframe & Miniature No.3 – The Focke-Wulf Fw190D and Ta152 – 2nd Edition
  • Airframe & Miniature No.4 – The Hawker Tempest, 2nd Edition – VIDEO REVIEW
  • Airframe & Miniature No.5 – The Messerschmitt Bf109 Early Series – 2nd Edition
  • Airframe & Miniature No.7 – The Focke-Wulf Fw190 Radial Engine Versions – VIDEO REVIEW
  • Airframe & Miniature No.7 – The Focke-Wulf Fw190 radial-engine Versions – 2nd Edition
  • Airframe & Miniature No.8 – The de Havilland Mosquito Part 1 – Bomber and Photo Reconnaissance –
  • Airframe & Miniature No.9 – The Dornier Do 335 Pfeil – VIDEO REVIEW
  • Airframe & Miniature No.10 – The de Havilland Mosquito Part 2 – Fighter, Fighter-Bomber and Night Fighter (including Sea Mosquito)
  • Airframe & Miniature No.11 – The Messerschmitt Bf 109 Late Series – VIDEO REVIEW
  • Airframe & Miniature No.11 – The Messerschmitt Bf109 Late Series – 2nd Edition
  • Airframe & Miniature No.14 – The Junkers Ju 87 Stuka – VIDEO REVIEW
  • Airframe & Miniature No.12 – The Supermarine Spitfire Part 1 – (Merlin-Powered including Seafire) – VIDEO REVIEW
  • Airframe & Miniature No.13 – The Supermarine Spitfire Part 2 Griffon-Powered including Seafire – VIDEO REVIEW
  • Airframe & Miniature No.15 – The Grumman F6F Hellcat
  • Airframe & Miniature No.16 2nd Ed – The Hawker Hurricane
  • Airframe and Miniature No.17 – The Messerschmitt Bf 110
  • Airframe and Miniature No.18 – The North American P-51D.K Mustang
  • Airframe and Miniature No.19 – The Lockheed P-38 Lightning including the F-4 and F-5
  • Airframe and Miniature No.22 – The Grumman F-4F Wildcat
  • Airframe Miniature No.23 – The Junkers Ju 88 Part 1 V1 to A-17 Plus b-series

Airframe Album Series

  • Airframe Album No.1 – The Heinkel He 219 ‘Uhu’
  • Airframe Album No.1 : Second Edition – The Heinkel He 219 Uhu
  • Airframe Album No.2 – The Hawker Sea Fury– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Airframe Album No.3 – The CAC Boomerang
  • Airframe Album No.7 – Arado Ar 196 
  • Airframe Album No.8 – The de Havilland Hornet and Sea Hornet
  • Airframe Album No.9 – The Arado Ar 234 – A Detailed Guide to The Luftwaffe’s Jet Bomber
  • Airframe Album No.10 – The Me 163 Komet – A Detailed Guide to The Luftwaffe’s Rocket Powered Interceptor
  • Airframe Album No.11 – The Fieseler Fi 156 A Detailed Guide to The Luftwaffe’s Versatile Storch
  • Airframe Album No.12 – The Gloster Gladiator – A Detailed Guide To The RAFs Last Biplane Fighter
  • Airframe Album No.13 – The Heinkel He 162 A Detailed Guide To The Luftwaffe’s Volksjäger– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Airframe Album No.14 – The Bristol Beaufighter– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Airframe Album No.15 – The Gloster Meteor / A.W. Meteor A Detailed Guide to Britain’s First jet Fighter– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Airframe Album 16 – The Messerschmitt Me 410 Hornisse
  • Airframe Album 17 – The Henschel Hs 129
  • Airframe Album No.18 – The Fairey Firefly
  • Airframe Album 20 – The Heinkel He 177 Greif

Airframe Constructor Series

  • Airframe Constructor No.1 Building the North American P-51D Mustang

Airframe Detail Series

  • Airframe Detail No.4 – The Supermarine Swift – A Technical Guide
  • Airframe Detail No.5 – The Boulton-Paul Defiant
  • Airframe Detail No.6 – The Focke-Wulf Ta 154 Moskito : A Technical Guide
  • Airframe Detail No.7 – Henschel Hs 123
  • Airframe Detail No.8 – The Horten Ho 229
  • Airframe Detail No.9 – The Westland Lysander
  • Airframe Detail No.10 : The Bristol Beaufort

Airframe Extra Series

  • Airframe Extra No.1 – D-Day to VE Day – The Air Battle Over Europe
  • Airframe Extra No.2 – The Korean War – The First Jet vs Jet Air Battles
  • Airframe Extra No.3 – The Battle of Britain – Their Finest Hour
  • Airframe Extra No.4 – Battle of Taranto – Judgement Day Book Review
  • Airframe Extra No.5 – The Spanish Civil War
  • Airframe Extra No.7 – The Suez Crisis – Empire’s End
  • Airframe Extra No.8 – Air war Over Italy
  • Airframe Extra No.9 – North Africa Campaign
  • Airframe Extra No.10 – The Battle of Midway 4th-7th June 1942– VIDEO REVIEW

Airmark Modelling Guides Series

  • Airmark Modelling Guides and Reference books
  • Airmark Modellers Guide 2 Dassault Rafale

Combat Machines Series

  • B-17 Flying Fortress – VIDEO REVIEW
  • Hawker Hunter – VIDEO REVIEW

Detail & Scale Series

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor: Japan Awakens a Sleeping Giant
  • F-100 Super Sabre in Detail & Scale Series Volume 11
  • Colors & Markings of the F-102 Delta Dagger
  • Colors & Markings of U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcats, Part 2 Pacific Coast Squadrons
  • F2H Banshee in Detail & Scale, Part 1: Prototypes Through F2H-2 Variants
  • F2H Banshee in Detail & Scale, Part 2 F2H-3 and F2H-4 Variants
  • F-3H Demon
  • F4F & FM Wildcat
  • F-8 & RF-8 Crusader
  • F-9F Cougar
  • F-102 Delta Dagger
  • FJ Fury in Detail & Scale, Part 1, Prototypes Through FJ-3 Variants
  • Jet Fighters of the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps Part 1: The First Ten Years
  • SBD Dauntless
  • S. Navy F-14 Tomcats
  • S. Navy and Marine Carrier Based Aircraft of WW II

Flight Craft Series

  • Vickers VC10 & Super VC10 – Flight Craft Series 2
  • British Military Test and Evaluation Aircraft : The Golden Years 1945 – 1975
  • English Electric Lightning – No.11
  • Hawker Hunter in British Service
  • Messerschmitt Bf109 – No.14
  • P-51 Mustang
  • Douglas DC-3 : No.21
  • A6M Zero : No.22
  • Airbus A380 – No.23
  • Boeing 747 – No.24
  • Boeing B-17 – No.27
  • F-4 Phantom II – No.28
  • Boeing B-29 – No.29

Polish Wings Series

  • Polish Wings 3 – PWS-10, Avia BH-33 and PZL P.7a
  • Polish Wings 9 – Sukhoi Su-7 & Su-20
  • Polish Wings 10 – MiG-23MF, MiG-23UB
  • Polish Wings 11 – MiG 29 Part 1
  • Polish Wings 13: Supermarine Spitfire IX 1942-43
  • Polish Wings 14 – Mi-14PL, PS, PL/R
  • Polish Wings 15 – Supermarine Spitfire IX 1944-46

Other Specific Modelling-related Books : A-Z

  • 1:144 Propeller Planes
  • Airmark Modellers Guide 2 Dassault Rafale
  • Airmark Air Profile US Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier
  • Airplanes in Scale Vol.3 – World War I– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Allied Fighters WW2 Aircaft Designs
  • Allied Wings No.15 ‘The Grumman SF-1’
  • ‘An Initiation to Aircraft Weathering – Modelling School Series’
  • Arado Ar196 – Monograph Series
  • The Avro Lancaster (including the Lancastrian) Part Two – Post-War Service
  • Avro Lancaster – The Survivors
  • Avro Lancaster Lincoln and York in Post-War RAF Service 1945-1950
  • Battle of Britain Part III – Top Color 26
  • The Battles of El Alamein, Battle Craft Series Volume 1
  • Bell P-39 Airacobra
  • Blackburn BAe Buccaneer, Haynes Workshop Manual– VIDEO REVIEW
  • The Blohm & Voss Bv 141
  • Boeing B-17 Fortress – In RAF Coastal Command Service
  • B-58 Hustler, Legends of Warfare Series
  • Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress – Queen of The Skies
  • Bristol Blenheim Mk.I & Mk.IF
  • British Military Aviation – 1960s in Colour No.1
  • Cold War Aircraft Modeller No.1
  • Consolidated Mess
  • Dambuster Lancaster
  • De Havilland Mosquito Part Two, Single Stage Merlin Fighters
  • De Havilland Sea Vixen FAW 1 and 2 – Flightline Series 1
  • Displaying Your Model – Osprey Modelling Series No.44
  • Dornier Do 17 The Luftwaffe’s ‘Flying Pencil’
  • F4 UK Phantom 1968 – 1995 – Firestreak Books
  • F-4 Phantom II Wild Weasel Units In Combat
  • F-16 Fighting Falcon – Viper Under The Skin
  • F-16 Fighting Falcon Part 2, International Versions
  • Focke Wulf FW 190 Dora Volume 2. FW 190
  • Fokker Dr.I The Aces’ Aircraft
  • German Aircraft Instrument Panels Vol.1– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Gloster Gladiator – Volume 1 – Development and Operational History
  • Gloster Grebe & Gamecock
  • The Golden Years of Matchbox Art
  • The Grumman E-2 Hawkeye, Blue Series No1 Real to Replica
  • Hawker Hunter in RAF Service 1955-1990
  • Historic Military Aircraft Series – various titles
  • How to Paint WWII RAF Early Aircraft – Solution Book 10
  • The Hurricane Explored – Aircraft Exploration Series 4
  • Heinkel He 219
  • How to Paint Bare Metal Aircraft – Solution Book No.8
  • How to Paint USAF / Navy Grey Fighters – Solution Book No.6
  • Israeli Air Force – Cutting Edge
  • Jaguar, Aircraft in Detail No.1
  • Jaguar Squadrons
  • Junkers Ju 188 Units of World War 2
  • Junkers Ju 87D/G Vol.II
  • Lancaster, The Backbone of Bomber Command– VIDEO REVIEW
  • The Lancaster Explored – Aircraft Exploration Series 1
  • Lightning 1954 – 2014 : Firestreak Books– Video Review!
  • Lockheed Martin F-16C/D Barak
  • Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II : Real to Replica Blue Series No.3
  • Luftwaffe Bombers, German WWII Designs by Claes Sundin– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Messerscmitt Me 262 Schwalbe
  • The Messerschmitt Me 262, Airframe and Miniature No.1 Second Edition
  • Modelling the P-40
  • Mosquito FB.VI – Aviation Guide 2
  • A. B-25 Mitchell
  • North American P-51D/K Mustang
  • P-38 Lightning at War – Topcolors 10
  • Pacific Mustangs 1 – Red Series
  • Painting and Finishing Techniques – Osprey Modelling 45
  • Painting Figures with Acrylics
  • Panavia Tornado colours and markings
  • Phoenix Scale Modelling magazine
  • Phoenix Aviation Modelling magazine
  • Poles in the Battle of Britain
  • Polish Spitfires Top Colours 27
  • The Saab JAS 39 Gripen : Real to Replica Blue Series No.2
  • Saab 35 Draken, Aircraft in Detail 031
  • Samurai Phantoms, The McDonnell Douglas Phantom II in Japanese Service, Vol.1 F-4EJ
  • Scimitar – Supermarine’s Last Fighter
  • Scratchbuilding Aircraft, a Scratchbuilding Masterclass book
  • Short Stirling Mk.I/III In RAF Service
  • Spitfire Pilot, A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain
  • Spitfire Revisited
  • Static Model Manual (step by step) Vol.2
  • The Supersonic Bone, A Development and Operational History of the B-1 Bomber
  • Technical Drawings of Aircraft of WWII 1939-1945
  • Tempest V, An Illustrated History of the Temporary Tempest
  • The Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain 1940 – from Profile to Model
  • The Weathering Magazine – Vietnam : AMMO Mig Jimenez
  • Warbirds – The Aviation Art of Adam Tooby
  • Weathering Pencil Techniques, Learning Series No.13
  • The Westland Whirlwind – A Detailed Guide To The RAFs Twin-Engined Fighter Second Edition
  • Wild Weasels, Defence Suppression and Electronic Warfare Aircraft, Red Series No.3
  • Wingleader Magazine – Printed Compendium Volume 1

General Aviation Books

Images Of War Series

  • 20th Century Passenger Flying Boats
  • Air War Over North Africa, USAAF Ascendant – VIDEO REVIEW
  • Early Jet Bombers 1944-1954 – VIDEO REVIEW
  • Early Jet Fighters 1944-1954 – VIDEO REVIEW
  • The F-4 Phantom – VIDEO REVIEW
  • The English Electric Lightning – VIDEO REVIEW
  • The Hawker Hunter
  • The Normandy Air War 1944 – VIDEO REVIEW
  • Prelude to War The RAF 1936-1939 – VIDEO REVIEW
  •  The Vought F4U Corsair – VIDEO REVIEW

  • A History of the RAF & USNAS in Ireland 1913-23
  • Air Defence Artillery in Combat 1972 to the Present
  • Air Combat – Dogfights of World War II– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Aircraft and Aviation Stamps, A Collector’s Guide
  • Airmen of Arnhem– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Airmen’s Incredible Escapes: Accounts of survival in the Second World War
  • An Eagle’s Odyssey, My Decade as a Pilot in Hitler’s Luftwaffe
  • Arado Flugzeugwerke – Aircraft and Development History
  • A Spy In The Sky, A Photographic Reconnaissance Spitfire Pilot in WWII
  • Atlantic Linchpin, The Azores in Two World Wars
  • Bf 109E/F vs Yak-1/7 Eastern Front 1941-42
  • Basic Guide To Modelling Airfix Modelworld
  • Battle of Britain 1940 The Finest Hour’s Human Cost
  • Boeing 737, The World’s Most Controversial Airliner
  • Bomber Command, Churchill’s Greatest Triumph
  • Brewster F2A Buffalo Aces of World War 2
  • British Aerospace Hawk
  • Camel Pilot Supreme Captain D V Armstrong DFC– VIDEO REVIEW
  • The Caribbean Legion and its Mercenary Air Forces 1947-1950
  • https://www.scalemodellingnow.com/bookreview-cold-war-test-pilot
  • The Complete Knight’s Cross Volume One, 1939-41
  • Confessions of a Flying Instructor, Teaching the RAF’s Fighter Pilots
  • The Dauntless in Battle– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Dambuster in Chief – The Life of Air Chief Marshal Sir Ralph Cochrane
  • D-Day Dakotas, 6th June 1944– VIDEO REVIEW
  • de Havilland Mosquito An Illustrated History
  • Desert Prelude “Operation Compass”
  • Dogfight, F6F Hellcat Philippines 1944
  • Dunkirk 1940, Through a German Lens – MMP Books
  • Eagles Over the Sea 1935-42
  • East Kirby – a day in the life
  • Echoes From Dawn Skies, Early Aviators
  • Empire of the Clouds
  • Enemy Coast Ahead, The Illustrated Memoir of Dambuster Guy Gibson– VIDEO REVIEW
  • English Electric Lightning – Britain’s First and Last Supersonic Interceptor
  • Eyewitness RAF The Experience of War 1939-1945
  • Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II – The Warthog Ground Attack Aircraft
  • Fast Jets to Spitfires – A Cold War Fighter Pilot’s Story
  • Fighter Aces – Knights of the Sky
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 190 The Early Years, Operations in the West
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 200
  • Focke-Wulf Jet Fighters
  • French Wings 2 Nieuport-Delage Ni-D 29 & Ni-D 62 family
  • From D-Day to Berlin
  • From F-4 Phantom to A-10 Warthog
  • Grumman E-2 Hawkeye
  • Harrier – The Vertical Reality – CD-ROM
  • Hawker’s Secret Cold War Airfield, Dunsfold – Home of the Hunter and Harrier
  • He111 Kampgeschwader on the Russian Front
  • Heathrow Airport – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
  • Heroes of Coastal Command – The RAF’s Maritime War 1939-1945
  • The High Peak Dambuster, Sergeant Jack Marriott DFM
  • Hitler’s Strategic Bombing Offensive on the Eastern Front Blitz Over The Volga 1943
  • Hot Spot of Invention – Charles Stark Draper, MIT, and the Development of Inertial Guidance and Navigation
  • The First Helicopter Boys
  • The Handley Page Victor : Tales from a Crew Chief – 40 Years of Life with the Victor
  • Hurricane Ace J. Frantisek – The true story
  • I Was Hitlers Pilot, The Memoirs of Hans Baur
  • If It Had Wings
  • Japanese Experimental Aircraft of the Pacific War
  • Kemble 2008 – 2009
  • Kugisho E14Y Glen The aircraft that bombed America
  • Lionel Morris and the Red Baron – Air War on the Somme
  • 25 Years of International Air Tattoo – CD-ROM
  • Lockheed Constellation – A History
  • Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, A History
  • Lockheed Tristar
  • Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
  • Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
  • Luftwaffe Aces in the Battle of Britain
  • The Luftwaffe’s Secret WWII Missions
  • Macchi C.200 Saetta
  • Macchi C.202 Folgore
  • Memoirs of a Stuka Pilot
  • Messerschmitt Bf 109 : The Latter Years
  • Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet
  • No Place for Beginners – Battle Over Malta: June 1940 – September 1941
  • 146 Squadron 1941-45
  • North American A-36A Apache
  • Operation Black Buck 1982
  • Operation Dynamo Dunkirk 1940 – Colouring Book : MMP Books
  • Osprey Plane Spotter’s Guide
  • Pathfinder Pilot, The Wartime Memoirs of Wing Commander R A Wellington
  • Per Ardua – Training an RAF Phantom Crew
  • Pitch Black to Plane Fare
  • Polish Air Force 1939 – Through German Eyes Vol.2
  • RAF in Camera, 100 Years on Display
  • RAF 100 The Official Record
  • RAF College Cranwell, A Centenary Celebration
  • RAF On The Offensive The Rebirth of Tactical Air Power 1940-1941
  • RAF’s Centenary Flypast
  • RAF West Malling, The RAF’s First Night Fighter Airfield WWII to the Cold War
  • Republic P-47 Thunderbolt “Bubbletop”
  • The Red Baron – A Photographic Album of the First World War’s Greatest Ace
  • Romanian Fighter Colours 1941 – 1945
  • Saab J21/ J21R
  • Seek and Strike, RAF Brüggen in War and Peace
  • Spitfire in my Workshop
  • Spitfire: the Battle of Britain’s Iconic Interceptor
  • Spitfire! The Full Story of a Unique Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron
  • Spitfire Ace of Aces, the Album
  • Storm of Eagles: The Greatest Aviation Photographs of World War II
  • Strike From The Air, The Early Years of The US Air Forces
  • Stringbag, The Fairey Swordfish at War
  • Supermarine Southampton, The Flying Boat That Made RJ Mitchell
  • Sydney Camm Hurricane and Harrier Designer, Saviour of Britain
  • Tales From The Frontline, The Middle East Hunter Squadrons
  • Tempest – Hawker’s Outstanding Piston-Engined Fighter
  • Test Pilot, An extraordinary career testing civilian aircraft
  • The Art of Lego Scale Modelling – No Starch Press
  • The Complete Knight’s Cross Volume One, 1939-41
  • The Messerschmitt Bf 109 Early Series
  • The Petlyakov PE-2
  • The Phantom in Focus
  • The Reich Intruders
  • The Royal Navy Wasp
  • The Tornado Years More Adventures of a Cold War Fast-Jet Navigator
  • The Vultee Vengeance in Battle
  • Three in Thirteen – The story of a Mosquito Night Fighter Ace
  • Thunderbolts Over Burma – A Pilot’s War Against the Japanese In 1945
  • Tiger Two Years, Landivsiau 08 and Kleine Brogel 09
  • TOPGUN The Legacy: The Complete History of TOPGUN and its Impact on Tactical Aviation
  • USAFE Tactical Units in the United Kingdom in the Cold War 1950-1992
  • Victor Units of the Cold War
  • Victory Air Displays, Prague 1946 & 1947
  • War Over the Steppes: The Air Campaigns On The Eastern Front 1941-45
  • Wings on Windermere – The History of the Lake District’s forgotten flying boat factory

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