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Free Download Hawker Typhoon: The RAF’s Ground-Breaking Fighter-Bomber by Tony Buttler
English | February 28th, 2022 | ISBN: 1913870901 | 128 pages | True EPUB | 3.83 MB
Although first designed as a fighter, during the fighting in and over Europe during 1944 and 1945 the Hawker Typhoon gained a tremendous reputation and true fame as a ground-attack aircraft and tank-buster. This was a remarkable achievement because, during its development and early career, the Typhoon had experienced severe problems with its Napier Sabre engine and catastrophic failures of its airframe. The Typhoon’s offensive ground-attack work is well known, but that tends to overshadow the type’s successes operating from 1942 as a true fighter based in the UK.

Free Download Tim McLelland – Vulcan: RAF’S Atomic Avenger (Aeroplane Icons)
Kelsey Publishing | 2014 | ISBN: 1907426787 | English | 132 pages | PDF | 102.75 MB
It is perhaps surprising that the "Swinging Sixties" are now half a century away. Five decades ago, Britain was a country full of optimism and opportunity, freed from years of austerity created by the long, dark years of the Second World War. It was an era when permissiveness and prosperity seemed to be the nation’s future, but it was also a time when Britain faced the possibility of no future at all. During one fearful weekend early in the 1960s, it seemed likely that the United Kingdom was about to face utter destruction, and preparations were made to initiate what would have been the Third World War, even though most of Britain’s people went about their daily lives almost oblivious to the horror that was unfolding inside the military and political corridors of power. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a critical event when the prospect of nuclear war seemed to be almost inevitable, but history records that even though the unthinkable briefly became almost a certainty, the prospect of an all-out nuclear exchange between the East and West was a step that neither of the protagonists were ultimately prepared to take.

Free Download Ian Black – The Last of the Lightnings: A Nostalgic Farewell to the Raf’s Favourite Supersonic Fighter
Patrick Stephens Ltd | 1996 | ISBN: 1852605413 | English | 172 pages | PDF | 139.96 MB
A celebration of the Lightning aircraft from those who have worked with the classic fighter. The book contains a description of the rigorous training syllabus taught by the Lightning Training flight to newly arrived pilots on frontline squadrons. Details of "Saturn" intercepts, the most demanding of all sorties flown by Lightning pilots in mock combat are included, and pilots of number 5 and XI squadrons reveal how the Lightning compared with its NATO "foes". "From the cockpit" text, as told by veteran interceptor pilots, includes a dramatic ejection from a blazing aircraft, and the appandices detail the disposals and ultimate fates of all aircraft utilized by the units at Binbrook, the last Lightning base.

Free Download Peter R. Foster – RAF Buccaneer (Aircraft Illustrated Special)
Ian Allan LTD | 1987 | ISBN: 0711017298 | English | 53 pages | PDF | 36.8 MB

Free Download Bill Gunston – Phantom
Ian Allan Ltd | 1984 | ISBN: 0711013837 | English | 101 pages | PDF | 14.9 MB
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Free Download Richard C. Smith, "Hornchurch Offensive: A Definitive Account of the RAF Fighter Airfield, its Pilots, Groundcrew and Staff, 1941 – 1962"
English | 2008 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 1906502153 | EPUB | 11,0 mb
A fascinating study of an airfield and its units at the forefront of the air battle for Europe. Through 1941 to the end of the war, action was continuous with famous characters like Harry Broadhurst, Paddy Finucane, Wilfred Duncan-Smith and Max Bygraves joining the myriad of nationalities based there.

Free Download The Ruhr 1943: The RAF’s brutal fight for Germany’s industrial heartland (Air Campaign) by Richard Worrall, Graham Turner
English | October 26, 2021 | ISBN: 1472846567 | 96 pages | MOBI | 23 Mb
This illustrated study explores, in detail, the RAF’s first concentrated air campaign of World War II against one of the hardest and most important targets in Germany – the industrial heartland of the Ruhr that kept Hitler’s war machine running.

Free Download RAF’s Centenary Flypast: The Story Behind the Event that Marked 100 Years of the Royal Air Force by Kevin Lee Gatland
English | July 23, 2021 | ISBN: 1526788403 | 279 pages | PDF | 20 Mb
On 10 July 2018, exactly 100 years and 100 days after the formation of the world’s first independent air force, 103 aircraft of twenty-four types from twenty-five squadrons flew over London in the largest formation of military aircraft seen over the capital of the UK in nearly thirty years.