Osprey General Aviation

Osprey Publishing: 2021 — 752 p. — (Osprey General Aviation 001). This pictorial journey will take the reader from the very beginning of the Skunk Works' very first project (XP-80 Shooting Star) and follow the program through prototype build-up, first flight and, if they reached the frontline, operational service. This treatment will be repeated for each of the 30 unclassified...

New York: Osprey Publishing, 2019 — 338 p. — (Osprey General Aviation 002). — ISBN 9781472836755. FOREWORD This richly illustrated volume details the exploits of fighter pilots engaged in air combat on a truly global scale during World War II. The eight aircraft types featured in the book are amongst the most iconic fighters of their generation, flown by some of the leading...

Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2004 — 145 p. — (Osprey General Aviation 003). — ISBN 1841768251. EDITOR'S NOTE To make the best-selling Aircraft of the Aces series as authoritative as possible, the editor would be interested in hearing from any individual who may have relevant photographs, documentation or first-hand experiences relating to aircrews, and their aircraft, of the...

Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2000 — 152 p. — (Osprey General Aviation 004). — ISBN 1841768559. Aircraft of the Aces Legends of World War 2 This volume showcases the specially commissioned cover artwork of leading aviation artist Iain Wyllie, who has produced over 30 action-packed paintings for the world's most successful aviation series of recent years, Aircraft of the Aces. Each...

Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2021 — 360 p. — (Osprey General Aviation 006). — ISBN 1841768746. Introduction They were America’s Few, a handful of Marine aviators who were in the right place at the right time. The right place was a small, obscure South Pacific island called Guadalcanal, familiar to almost no one in the outside world, and which no one could have predicted would be...

Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2012— 312 p. — (Osprey General Aviation 007). — ISBN 1841768941. FOREWORD BY MICHAEL DOBBS Shortly after noon on October 23, 1962, a US Navy commander named William B. Ecker took off from NAS Key West and headed south toward the island of Cuba. He was accompanied by his wingman, Lt Christopher Bruce Wilhelmy, in an identical RF-8A Crusader. Their...

Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2014— 312 p. — (Osprey General Aviation 008). — ISBN 1841768733. FOREWORD It is rare when a book not only covers a fascinating part of the past, but offers some critical insight for the future. A close reading of this volume will provide the reader with some useful information on why and how America gained ascendancy in the Cold War and in the space...

Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2017— 125 p. — (Osprey General Aviation 009). — ISBN 1841768567. INTRODUCTION The second half of the twentieth century witnessed one of the greatest breakthroughs in civil aviation since the Wright brothers - the conquering of flight at speeds faster than sound. The result was the most superlative form of transport yet built by man - Concorde, the...

Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2019.— 360 p. — (Osprey General Aviation 010). — ISBN 1841768436. As the war edged towards its final year, Imperial Japan’s armed forces were in an increasingly desperate situation. The elite air corps had been wiped out in the grinding battles over the Solomons in 1942-43, and, following a series of reversals at Midway and the failed attempts to...

Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2011.— 360 p. — (Osprey General Aviation 011). — ISBN 1841768238. DOGFIGHT World War II saw the perfection of the piston-engined fighter and the emergence of the fighter pilot as modern warfare's glamorous elite. From the Battle of Britain to the last duels over defeated Japan, armadas of high-performance aircraft shaped history in single combat. In...

Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2007.— 298 p. — (Osprey General Aviation 012). — ISBN 1841768694. F-15 EAGLE ENGAGED THE WORLD'S MOST SUCCESSFUL JET FIGHTER The F-15 Eagle is undoubtedly the most successful jet fighter of all time: with a kill ratio that exceeds 105: 0, the Eagle has never lost an air-to-air dogfight. Flown not only by the US Air Force but by the air forces of...

Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2022.— 401 p. — (Osprey General Aviation 013). — ISBN 1841768554. FOREWORD Mike Napier and I have a lot in common: we were both fighter pilots in the air force, Mike in the Royal Air Force and me in the Israeli Air Force; after that, we both flew as airline pilots, Mike for British Airways and me for El-Al.

Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2017.— 292 p. — (Osprey General Aviation 015). — ISBN 1841768970. FOREWORD A VERY SPECIAL AIRCRAFT The Hawker Hurricane! Now 96 years of age, I seem to have spent half my life flying the Hurricane, fighting in it, teaching others to fly it, writing books about it, talking about it, praising it - and finally (let it be admitted) criticizing it! Like...

Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2020.— 323 p. — (Osprey General Aviation 016). — ISBN 1841768861. INTRODUCTION “It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.” John F Kennedy, 1960 Looking back from the comfort of the 21st Century, it seems inconceivable that just over 30 years ago the world was never more than a few minutes away from nuclear...

Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 1993. — 284 p. — (Osprey General Aviation 018). — ISBN 1841768986. Foreword Most people around Lockheed consider Paul Crickmore's first book about the SR-71 'the best book ever' about the world's most amazing flying machine. Paul's second volume is a superb collection of photographic essays in which the magnificent aeroplane speaks for itself. This...

Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2021.— 273 p. — (Osprey General Aviation 019). — ISBN 1841768800. INTRODUCTION On 30 December 1943, the crews of USAAF B-17 Flying Fortresses executing a bombing raid to Ludwigshafen in Germany described being attacked by an enemy fighter trailing a length of steel cable through their formation. In its post-mission report, the Eighth Air Force’s 3rd...

Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 369 p. — (Osprey General Aviation 021). — ISBN 1841768069. FOREWORD On Sunday, June 25, 1950, the United States’ armed forces were as unprepared for war as had been the case on Sunday, December 7, 1941. The country was taken completely unawares by the North Korean invasion of South Korea, despite warnings from the Central Intelligence Agency...

Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 220 p. Aviation has revolutionised warfare over the last 100 years, and this new pocket guide gives the reader the essential details of 70 iconic aircraft, including the Sopwith Camel, the Spitfire, the Messerschmitt Bf 109, the P-51 Mustang and the F-4 Phantom. Drawing on Osprey's comprehensive aviation archive, the Plane Spotter's Guide uses...