First employed in the Far East over North Vietnam & North Korea, American military intelligence quickly realized the SR-71 ' Blackbird's' potential value over European targets. In 1976, SR-71 Detachment 4 commenced operations from the RAF base at Middenhall in the UK. ...

Even before the first operational flight of the U-2 spy plane, aircraft designers began work on the type's replacement. The result was the SR-71. This book examines the impact this aircraft had, not only on North Vietnam but during the Cold War as a whole. ...

All 26 episodes of the Australian teen dramedy series based on the novels by Tim Winton, portraying a pivotal year in the life of Lockie Leonard, aged 12 & three quarters. Lockie (Sean Keenan) & his family have just moved to the extremely remote town of Angelus. For Lockie this is a disaster: no friends, a new school & a house in imminent danger of disappearing into a swamp. But then Lockie finds the strange little town's major redeeming feature: it has the best surf he has ever seen. Episodes are: ' The Human Torpedo', ' Stormy Mondays', ' Lockie Chickens Out', ' To Cheat Or Not to Cheat', ' Cyril', 'A Water Feature', ' Match of the Day', ' The Details', ' Weird Genes', ' Miracles', 'X Marks the Dot', ' Dog Days', ' It's Not You, It's Me', ' Pure Poetry', ' The Ladder of Love', ' Brothers', ' Swamp Rat', ' Face the Fear', ' Lockie Takes the Cake', ' The Clock's Tickin', ' Zig Zag Hill', ' Angels & Monsters', ' Boredom Busters', ' Barry Goes Pop', ' The Domino Effect' & ' Joy... To the World'. ...

Illustrating Lockleaze, this title contains over 200 images that explore the social history of this close-knit area of Bristol. Compiled using residents' photographs & archive material, it recalls the people, places & events that have shaped Lockleaze's past. ...

Features a collection of over 200 images of Lockleaze & Romney Avenue Schools, using photographs from the archives of the local schools & from former Lockleaze residents' personal collections. This work offers a photographic record of the schools from their post-war origins to school reunions in the 1990s. ...

Twelve-year-old Lewis Castorman is a master locksmith: there is no lock on earth that he is unable to open. He is therefore flattered when world-renowned chemist Ernst K Grumpel invites him to his office in New York City & offers him a lock-picking assignment. ...