The first in a new series of Flight Craft titles Focusses on iconic types such as the Mil MI-24 ' Hind', also known as 'the Flying Crocodile', the Mil-28 & the Kamov Ka-52 ' Alligator'. Will appeal to aircraft modelers as well as general enthusiasts. Features around 180 photographs including 20 full colour side-views & a range of 3D line drawings ...

What happens when an artificial-foot freedom fighter throws a British-made foot at the Chairman of the Communist Party of China? Will Dong Xiao Ping make it to Tower Records to buy the latest Status Quo album? Will Andrew Lloyd Webber complete his new musical ' Dog Breeder'? Will Willie Whitelaw marry his parrot? Will our hero make that engagement at the Gonk factory in Leeds? As a st&-up comedian, Harry Hill is the equal of Eddie Izzard, Rich Hall & Frank Skinner. Performing bareback for the first time, the self-styled debonaire dachshund now makes his fiction debut. ...

Born in the United States but separated since they were boys, twin brothers Max & Harry Kelso found themselves fighting on opposite sides when the Second World War broke out, Max as one of the Luftwaffe's most feared pilots, Harry as a Yank ace in the RAF! ...

Enjoy the challenge of putting together this Flight of Fancy 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle.

The perfect stay-at-home project,

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Fondly-remembered family drama starring Jack Wild & Helen Raye as Finn & Derval Dove, an orphaned Irish brother & sister living unhappily in England with their domineering stepfather Hawk (Ron Moody). Together they decide to run away & return to t ...

A small plane disappears from the sky above Sparrow Il&, & Abby knows she must do something to help. She & Sergeant Henry Cobb, set off to hunt for survivors. They find the plane but not the passengers. Abby's wilderness skills are put to the test as she & Henry go on a chase to try to uncover the secrets of the passengers' hidden pasts. ...

Charlotte Drummond knows she has a duty to obey her father. Girls, especially well-bred upper-class ones, are expected to be submissive to the men in their lives. But Charlotte's father is a cruel man, viciously beating her & her brothers for the slightest reason. He even wants to marry her off, at just sixteen years old, to a man she does not love. Lion-hearted Charlotte wants to defy him
- but to protect her brothers from his fury she agrees to become the wife of Brooke Armstrong. Charlotte does not understand that Brooke adores her, & that he would never have forced his enchanting new wife to agree to the match. As they begin their ill-starred marriage, Brooke welcomes her brothers into his home & sets out to make her love him. & when Charlotte turns her back on her social duties to turn the Dower House into a home for Wakefield's fallen women his patience is tested to the limit. Only when tragedy strikes will she will be able to admit that she loved him from the moment they met. But will it be too late?
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The flight of the R34 was one of the great feats of British aviation & it has been shamefully forgotten
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From an Archaeopteryx to a kingfisher & the Wright brothers' flying machine to an air-powered rocket, this book is packed with

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This work presents a journey through a century of flight, capturing the spirit & excitement of aviation past & present, from the Wright brothers' first airborne attempts to the story behind the space race. Bone-jarring moments of flight with pioneers such as Orville Wright, Harriet Quimby & Roland Garros are presented, along with absorbing profiles of the key personalities & the planes they flew. Readers can follow the swift advances in aviation technology that took place with the onset of war, as supremacy in the skies became a crucial factor. Eyewitness accounts & images bring air reconnaissance, aerial bombing & spectacular dogfights to life. Adventurous fliers like Lindbergh & Earhart pushed the boundaries even further during the golden age of flight in the 1920s & 1930s. R.G. Grant describes how these trailblazers conquered transatlantic routes & paved the way for new luxury passenger jets. The book concludes with a glimpse into the future of flight: from anti-terrorist strategies to light aircraft, pilotless planes & space vacations. 30.4 x 26.2 x 4 cm, pages 452 ...