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Aircraft Book Reviews – by title

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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
    • Airframe & Miniature No.3 – The Focke-Wulf Fw190D and Ta 152
    • Airframe & Miniature No.4 – The Hawker Tempest, 2nd Edition – VIDEO REVIEW
    • Airframe & Miniature No.7 – The Focke-Wulf Fw190 Radial Engine Versions – VIDEO REVIEW
    • 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.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 Album Series
    • Airframe Album No.1- 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 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– VIDEO REVIEW
    • Airframe Detail No.6 – The Focke-Wulf Ta 154 Moskito : A Technical Guide
    • Airframe Detail No.7 – Henschel Hs 123– VIDEO REVIEW
    • Airframe Detail No.8 – The Horten Ho 229– VIDEO REVIEW
    • Airframe Detail No.9 – The Westland Lysander– VIDEO REVIEW

  • 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– VIDEO REVIEW
    • Airframe Extra No.8 – Air war Over Italy– VIDEO REVIEW
    • Airframe Extra No.9 – North Africa Campaign– VIDEO REVIEW
    • Airframe Extra No.10 – The Battle of Midway 4th-7th June 1942– VIDEO REVIEW

  • Airmark Modelling Guides Series
    • Airmark Modelling Guides and Reference books

  • 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
    • F-3H Demon
    • F4F & FM Wildcat
    • F-8 & RF-8 Crusader
    • F-9F Cougar
    • F-102 Delta Dagger
    • 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 – Flight Craft Series 11
    • Hawker Hunter in British Service
    • Messerschmitt Bf109 – Flight Craft Series No.14
    • P-51 Mustang
    • Douglas DC-3 : Flight Craft Series 21
    • A6M Zero : Flight Craft Series 22

  • 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
  • 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
  • Avro Lancaster – The Survivors
  • Avro Lancaster Lincoln and York in Post-War RAF Service 1945-1950
  • Battle of Britain Part III – Top Color 26
  • Bell P-39 Airacobra
  • Blackburn BAe Buccaneer, Haynes Workshop Manual– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Boeing B-17 Fortress – In RAF Coastal Command Service
  • 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– VIDEO REVIEW
  • De Havilland Sea Vixen FAW 1 and 2 – Flightline Series 1
  • Displaying Your Model – Osprey Modelling Series No.44
  • F4 UK Phantom 1968 – 1995 – Firestreak Books– Video Review!
  • F-16 Fighting Falcon – Viper Under The Skin
  • 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
  • Hawker Hunter in RAF Service 1955-1990
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Poles in the Battle of Britain
  • Polish Spitfires Top Colours 27
  • 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
  • Spitfire Revisited
  • Static Model Manual (step by step) Vol.2
  • 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– Video Review!
  • Warbirds – The Aviation Art of Adam Tooby– Video Review!
  • Wingleader Magazine – Printed Compendium Volume 1– VIDEO REVIEW

General Aviation Books

Images Of War Series

  • 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
  • Bf 109E/F vs Yak-1/7 Eastern Front 1941-42
  • Battle of Britain 1940 The Finest Hour’s Human Cost
  • Boeing 737, The World’s Most Controversial Airliner
  • Brewster F2A Buffalo Aces of World War 2
  • British Aerospace Hawk
  • Camel Pilot Supreme Captain D V Armstrong DFC– VIDEO REVIEW
  • 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”
  • Dunkirk 1940, Through a German Lens – MMP Books
  • Eagles Over the Sea 1935-42– VIDEO REVIEW
  • East Kirby – a day in the life
  • 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 – VIDEO REVIEW
  • Fighter Aces – Knights of the Sky
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 190 The Early Years, Operations in the West – VIDEO REVIEW
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 200– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Focke-Wulf Jet Fighters– VIDEO REVIEW
  • 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– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Heroes of Coastal Command – The RAF’s Maritime War 1939-1945– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Hot Spot of Invention – Charles Stark Draper, MIT, and the Development of Inertial Guidance and Navigation– VIDEO REVIEW
  • The First Helicopter Boys– VIDEO REVIEW
  • The Handley Page Victor : Tales from a Crew Chief – 40 Years of Life with the Victor– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Hurricane Ace J. Frantisek – The true story
  • I Was Hitlers Pilot, The Memoirs of Hans Baur– VIDEO REVIEW
  • 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– VIDEO REVIEW
  • 25 Years of International Air Tattoo – CD-ROM
  • Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, A History– VIDEO REVIEW
  • 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– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Messerschmitt Bf 109 : The Latter Years– VIDEO REVIEW
  • 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 Dynamo Dunkirk 1940 – Colouring Book : MMP Books– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Osprey Plane Spotter’s Guide
  • Pathfinder Pilot, The Wartime Memoirs of Wing Commander R A Wellington
  • Per Ardua – Training an RAF Phantom Crew– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Pitch Black to Plane Fare
  • Polish Air Force 1939 – Through German Eyes Vol.2
  • RAF 100 The Official Record– VIDEO REVIEW
  • RAF College Cranwell, A Centenary Celebration– VIDEO REVIEW
  • RAF On The Offensive The Rebirth of Tactical Air Power 1940-1941
  • RAF West Malling, The RAF’s First Night Fighter Airfield WWII to the Cold War– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Republic P-47 Thunderbolt “Bubbletop”
  • 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– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Storm of Eagles: The Greatest Aviation Photographs of World War II
  • Strike From The Air, The Early Years of The US Air Forces – VIDEO REVIEW
  • Stringbag, The Fairey Swordfish at War
  • Supermarine Southampton, The Flying Boat That Made RJ Mitchell – VIDEO REVIEW
  • Sydney Camm Hurricane and Harrier Designer, Saviour of Britain– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Tales From The Frontline, The Middle East Hunter Squadrons
  • Tempest – Hawker’s Outstanding Piston-Engined Fighter
  • The Art of Lego Scale Modelling – No Starch Press
  • The Messerschmitt Bf 109 Early Series
  • The Petlyakov PE-2– VIDEO REVIEW
  • The Phantom in Focus– VIDEO REVIEW
  • The Reich Intruders– VIDEO REVIEW
  • The Royal Navy Wasp– VIDEO REVIEW
  • The Tornado Years More Adventures of a Cold War Fast-Jet Navigator– VIDEO REVIEW
  • The Vultee Vengeance in Battle– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Three in Thirteen – The story of a Mosquito Night Fighter Ace– Video Review!
  • Tiger Two Years, Landivsiau 08 and Kleine Brogel 09
  • 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– VIDEO REVIEW
  • Wings on Windermere – The History of the Lake District’s forgotten flying boat factory

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