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ENGLISH LANGUAGE BOOK: This Lavishly illustrated book contains an overview, scale drawings, detailed walkaround colour photos, illustrations of the airframe structure and camouflage schemes, modelling sections.

JAPANESE LANGUAGE BOOK: This Lavishly illustrated book contains an overview, scale drawings, detailed walkaround colour photos, illustrations of the airframe structure and camouflage schemes, modelling sections.

JAPANESE LANGUAGE BOOK: This Lavishly illustrated book contains an overview, scale drawings, detailed walkaround colour photos, illustrations of the airframe structure and camouflage schemes, modelling sections.

This practical guide will enable you to create your own realistic small-scale models from the period of The Great War, specifically those involving the forces, aviation and armoured cars of Great Britain, the Commonwealth, France and Belgium. It also touches on other Allied Nations, Russia and Italy. With over 325 high quality photographs, this book covers what soldiers looked like in WW1, with actual clothing and equipment examples for use as reference.

FRENCH LANGUAGE MAGAZINE. Following numerous requests from our readers, we have decided to republish, in book form, the Aérojournal hors-série number 3, a booklet victim of its success and out of print for several years, devoted to German combat jet projects which would have must have come into existence if the war had continued for another year. However, it is not a simple reissue since a good part of the texts have been brought up to date according to the new information available. In addition...

FRENCH LANGUAGE MAGAZINE. When on November 26, 1941 the six aircraft carriers of the Kido Butai secretly left the bay of Hito-Kappu in the Kuril Islands and set sail for Pearl Harbor, they embarked about 380 aircraft: dive bombers, bombers – torpedo boats and fighters. All of them in their category represent the very best in terms of single-engine combat aircraft. The fighters are of the Mitsubishi A6M2 Reisen or Zero type, the first of which entered service just over a year ago. As the War of t...

FRENCH LANGUAGE MAGAZINE. The appearance of tanks on the battlefield has profoundly changed the behaviour of infantry. For years, the armies have tried to better coordinate the action of the infantry and that of the armoured vehicles, but it is on the side of the German army that this synergy is favoured. Despite the beginnings at the start of the Second World War, the German infantrymen learned to coordinate with the tank soldiers, to finally see the appearance of Panzergrenadier, the mechanize...

FRENCH LANGUAGE MAGAZINE. The fighting on the Ostfront was amply documented by the press agencies of the various belligerents, each sending its war correspondents to take a series of shots at the front. But that is to forget that these photos, de facto sanitized and selected, paint only a partial picture of the situation. The Landser then also has a camera in its luggage, and the pictures taken by the soldiers show another reality of the battlefield and the war in the East. In this book, Anthony...

Modern strategists talk about force multipliers , and for air operations, air-to-air refuelling is without doubt the greatest force multiplier of all. In-flight refuelling has allowed not only the longest bombing missions in history but also persistence in air defence, reach in transport and flexibility in ground-attack tasks. Covering a range of refuellers including the Boeing KC-97 and KC-135, Vickers Valiant, Handley Page Victor, Lockheed TriStar, Vickers VC10, McDonnell Douglas KC-10 and the...

The Falkland Islands is a remote British territory, about 8,000 miles from the UK mainland and just over 400 miles from the coast of Argentina. The ownership of the islands had long been disputed, but it reached a boiling point in March 1982, when a group of individuals raised the Argentine flag on South Georgia. Foreseeing a large-scale response from British forces, the Argentine government quickly ordered Operation Rosario, and, on 2 April 1982, undertook an amphibious invasion of the Falkland...

All decades of aviation have important developments and changes. In the 2000s, the European Airbus consortium finally overtook Boeing as the major producer of airliners, with a full range from the smallest, the A318, to the largest of all passenger aircraft, the A380. It saw the early jets either disappear or get converted to haul freight. The old piston-powered props still served in remote parts of the world but in declining numbers. On a sad note, the 2000s saw the final Concorde services, bri...

The first traces of Polish aviation can be found in 1910. However, one of the first fully domestic airlines, under the name of Aerolloyd, was formed in 1922 by Polish oil barons and operated from the Free City of Danzig, with the help of German investors. Aerolloyd, or Aerolot in Polish, initiated a merger with some smaller competing Polish airlines in 1927 to form LOT Polish Airlines, which was owned by the Polish state. During World War Two, when Poland was occupied by German troops, the airli...