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British, Commonwealth and US naval air test pilots

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British, Commonwealth & US 
Naval air test pilots & establishments
 

The Wings of the Navy. By Captain Eric Brown.  Naval Institute Press; ISBN: 0870219952. Our Price: £12.95. RRP:
	A detailed flight analysis of FAA aircraft with cutaways and history of each aircraft by the renowned Fleet Air Arm test pilot. Click here to view details
Hardcover - 176 pages 2nd Ed (1987)
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Faster Than the Sun , by Peter Twiss, Lord Brabazon. Grub Street; ISBN: 1902304438. Our Price: £7.99
	This autobiography of former Fleet Air Arm and Fairey Aviation Company test pilot, Peter Twiss, the man who flew 1000mph for the first time in history, tells the story of the record-breaking Fairey Delta. It describes the vast organization necessary for the record bid, the political lobbying and the almost intolerable tension when the flights failed.  Click here to view details
Paperback - 191 pages (April 2000)
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Flying the Edge : The Making of Navy Test Pilots by George C. Wilson. ASIN: 1557509255
	A very thorough, well-written book about Test Pilot School, where daring and usually cocky pilots are turned into Engineers/Pilots. George Wilson spent a whole year with Class 100 at Naval Air Test Center Patuxent River (TPS) and describes all they had to go through in breath-taking detail. Click here to view details
Hardback (1994)
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Forever Farnborough : Flying the Limits 1904-1996. By Peter Cooper. Hikoki Publications; ISBN: 0951989936. Our Price: £30.50 . RRP:
	History of the RAE Farnborough from its inceptiomn in 1904 until its closure in 1996. An importnat site for the evolution of the British naval aircrfat from 1904 until the last decade.  Click here to view details
Paperback - 176 pages 1 ED (25 August, 1999)
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The Secret Years: Flight Testing at Boscombe Down 1939-1945. Tim Mason, David Howley (Illustrator).  Hikoki Publications; ISBN: 0951989995. Our Price: £25.46. RRP:
	A book covering the once secret flight testing work at A&AEE, Boscombe Down 1939-1945. Includes information avbout the Naval Unit and all the naval aircraft tested at Boscombe Down during WW2. Click here to view details
Hardcover - 256 pages (1998)
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Report of Joint Fighter Conference : Nas Patuxent River, MD 16-23 October 1944 (Schiffer Military History) by Francis H. Dean (Editor), Joint Fighter Conference. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.; ISBN: 0764304046
	This book focues on U.S. and British engineers, company and NACA test pilots, and Army and Navy/Marine Corps combat pilots, and presents their late 1944 views of then-current and possible future fighter aircraft. This report is an official verbatim transcript of the proceedings of a Joint Fighter Conference held at the U.S. Navy's Patuxent River test center for eight days in October 1944, and includes frank discussion on the operational and technical capabilities of the P-39, P-47, P-51, P-38, Corsair, Hellcat, P-61, YP-59, Mosquito, Spitfire, and other Allied aircraft, as well as the Japanese Zero. Participants include: Charles Lindbergh, Lloyd Child, Allen Chilton, Lt. Peter Twiss, Maj. Thomas Lanphier, Jack Woolams, Boone Guyton and scores of others. This conference is believed to be the last of several conducted in wartime in an effort to promote cross-talk between manufacturers, military servicearms, and Allies, in order to obtain the best possible fighter aircraft Click here to view details
Hardcover (March 1998)
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The Wrong Stuff : Flying on the Edge of Disaster by John Moore. Phalanx Pub. Co.; ISBN: 188380910X. Our Price: £12.17.
	The author recounts his training as an aviation cadet during the last years of World War II, his two tours of duty in Korea, and his work as a test pilot in the early days of jet aircraft Click here to view details
Hardcover - 216 pages (1997)
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British Secret Projects , by Tony Buttler. Midland Publishing; ISBN: 1857800958 List Price: £24.95 Our Price: £19.96
	A large number of fighter projects have been drawn by British companies over the last fifty years, but very few have turned into hardware, and very little has been published about these fascinating "might-have-beens." This book makes extensive use of previously unpublished, primary-source material-much recently declassified. It gives an insight into a secret world where the public has hadlittle idea of what was going on, while at the same time presenting a coherent nationwide picture of fighter development and evolution. Particular emphasis is placed on tender design competitions and some of the events that led to certain aircraft either being canceled or produced. Some of the many and varied types included are the Hawker P.1103/P.1136/P.1121 series, and the Fairey "Delta III".  Click here to view details
Hardcover - 176 pages (August 2000)
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Whistling Death: the Test Pilot's Story of the F4U Corsair  by Boone T. Guyton.  Schiffer Publishing; ISBN: 0887407323. Our Price: £19.95.
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Hardcover - 288 pages new edition (1994)
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Naval Aviation Training .  Naval Aviation Monographs. Published by the Naval Aviation History Branch, Naval Historical Center. Washington Navy Yard.
	This electronic version has been placed on the Naval Historical Center's homepage because it is an excellent reference source for naval aviation information. The Naval Aviation Monographs are scanned, saved and made available to you in Adobe's "Portable Document Format" (.pdf) which preserves formatting and greatly compresses their size for quicker downloading. You will need the Acrobat Reader, downloadable free from Adobe, to view them.   Required Free Software: Acrobat Reader Available FREE for download now.  Click here to access the book's contents
Digital -  Free Downloadable E-book
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Wings for Victory : The Remarkable Story of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Canada. By Spencer Dunmore. McClelland & Stewart, Inc.; ISBN: 0771029187. Our Price: £13.55
	Story of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Canada in WW2.  Click here to view details
Paperback - 400 pages (September 1995)
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Air Warriors: the Inside Story of the Making of a Navy Pilot. By Douglas Waller. Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group; ISBN: 0440235316. Our Price: £6.50
	This is an adventure story about young men and women learning to become Navy carrier pilots. Movies such as "Top Gun" and "AnOfficer And A Gentleman" have glamorized the life of Navy pilots.  "Air Warriors" tells the real story with real-life people who are now  flying for the Navy. It is a book for flying enthusiasts, for anyone interested in the military, and for students who want to know how to become a Navy Top Gun. Click here to view details
Paperback (1999)
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Training for Victory : The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in the West by Peter C. Conrad. ASIN: 0888333021. Our Price: $24.95
	Story of the The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in WW2. Click here to view details
Hardcover - (date) Out of stock
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Wings for Victory Dunmore. More on the BCATP. A lot of personal recollections. 399 pp, sc, photos, index. CANAV Books. $19.99 $17.50 B
	Personal recollections of air training with the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Canada. Click here to view details
Hardcover - 399 pages. (Dates)
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Bogeys and Bandits : The Making of a  Fighter Pilot  by Robert L. Gandt. Viking Press; ISBN: 0670867217. £8.51
	Gandt adds to his three previous aviation histories the story of six men and two women undergoing the testing process for becoming carrier-qualified pilots of the navy's FA-18 Hornet. Tales from the cockpits and ground-training classes of those learning to fly the navy's most advanced fleet fighter/bomber jet- -the FA-18 Hornet. Gandt, a veteran navy fighter pilot (Sky Gods: The Fall of Pan Am, 1995), follows eight trainees from their introductory briefing  to the difficult final exam and on to their service with the fleet, where they become accustomed to taking off and landing on a carrier pitching and tossing on the open sea. Gandt's is a detailed, powerful, and thoroughly absorbing account of a process that cannot be made either simple or safe and still accomplish its purpose, and it affords a revealing look into the contemporary naval aviation community at work. Click here to view details
Hardcover - 352 pages (June 1997)
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Scream of Eagles : The Dramatic Account of the U.S. Navy's Top Gun Fighter Pilots : How They Took Back the Skies over Vietnam  by Robert K. Wilcox. ISBN: 0671745662
	Chronicles the history of the Fighter Weapons School known as Top Gun and describes how its Naval Aviators played pivotal roles in the Vietnam War and ultimately won the air battles.  After Korea, Naval aviators had the foolish notion that technology would win air battles for them. They stopped training pilots in the art of air to air combat. Consequently, when the Vietnam War started, most of the fighter pilots didn't know how to dogfight. Their airplanes were built for speed and to launch missiles. They were not designed for  manoeuverability. MiGs were. This book is becoming a buzzword in flight simulator forums around the Internet. Anyone who ha 'flown' a flight simultor on their home computers should read this book. It'll really change the way you view PC 'flying'. Click here to view details
Paperback -  (1992) Out of print
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