Airfix was founded in 1939 initially manufacturing inflatable rubber toys. Today the company is synonymous with the hobby with its plastic scale model kits & toy soldiers being the first entry for many young children into the world of modelling. This book covers 50 years of the famous Airfix plastic soldier from its production beginnings in 1958 through to the present day detailing every figure Airfix has ever produced. With a range immortalising soldiers from myriad periods of history including Napoleonic infantrymen WWI British Tommies WWII G.I.s & Civil War cavalrymen this tribute collection is both a trip down memory lane to those great wargames from your childhood & an informative look at the greatest soldiers of history. ...

A pilot calls into the control tower to reqest an emergency landing. Following a mystery incident the plane's cabin is virtually destroyed ninety-four passengers are injured & three are dead. Investigating this fatal accident for the airline Casey Singleton must find out the truth before the multi-million dollar business goes bust in the face of a huge meda backlash. Further lives are at stake & it seems everyone is against her
- even her own colleagues
- & everyone has something to hide. Airframe is a fast-paced adrenaline-fuelled thriller from the master of high-concept storytelling.

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Emerson Watts is on the run: from school from her family & from herself. She's reeling from the shock that Nikki the girl whose body her brain was forced to inhabit is still alive. & she's furious. Manipulative Brandon plans to use Em to discover a secret that will ensure his success whilst Christopher is out for revenge fuelled by his jealousy. With everyone around her playing a dangerous game maybe Em should just keep on running.. It is the final book in the fashion-tastic & hilarious new trilogy from the queen of teen fiction. ...

Teen-supermodel Nikki Howard has a secret. Shes not the gorgeous golden airhead she seems
- on the inside shes someone else. Literally.
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Through six previous editions Airline Marketing & Management" has established itself as the leading textbook for students of marketing & its application to todays airline industry as well as a reference work for those with a professional interest in the area. Carefully revised the seventh edition of this internationally successful book examines an exceptionally turbulent period for the industry. This title features new material on: changes in customer needs particularly regarding more business travellers choosing
- or being forced
- to travel economy & analysis of the bankruptcy of All Business Class airlines; an explanation of the US/EU Open Skies agreement & analysis of its impact; the increase in alliance activity & completion of several recent mergers & the marketing advantages & disadvantages that have resulted; product adjustments that airlines must make to adapt to changes in the marketing environment such as schedule re-adjustments & the reconfiguration of aircraft cabins; changes in pricing philosophies with for example airlines moving to A La Carte pricing whereby baggage catering & priority boarding are paid for as extras; airline websites & their role as both a selling & distributing tool; & the future of airline marketing. A review of the structure of the air transport market & the marketing environment is followed by detailed chapters examining business & marketing strategies product design & management pricing & revenue management current & future distribution channels & selling advertising & promotional policies. The reader will benefit from greater understanding of both marketing & airline industry jargon & from knowledge obtained regarding the extraordinary strategic challenges now facing aviation. Written in a straightforward easy-to-read style & combining up-to-date & relevant examples drawn from the worldwide aviation industry this new edition will further enhance the books reputation for providing the ideal introduction to the subject."

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This is an exciting title in this informative series of books containing over 100 full-colour stickers which children can match to the illustrations. This beautifully illustrated sticker book doubles as a spotters' guide with accurate & simple descriptions that allow children to seek out & find the planes vehicles & buildings to be found in & around a busy airport. The small size allows the books to fit neatly into a pocket so children can spot on the go. ...

Ellen has been living on her own in a picturesque if damp cottage in Cheshire since her husband abandoned her to go & live with another woman in Provence. Having married once for love she is now determined that the second time around it will be for money. Close at hand is Duncan her not unattractive & enticingly single divorce lawyer... But then two new people enter her life: Jo-Jo a homeless girl several months pregnant; & Matthew an artist who paints murals in country houses & who on his first meeting with Ellen openly criticises her for being mercenary & devious. But as hostility gives way to friendship Ellen realises that she has wavered off course from her original plan & she has to remind herself very strongly indeed that Duncan is the man for her... ...

Airship charts the history of lighter-than-air craft from the continental pioneers of the late 19th century through to European airship stations in the Great War Germany's pre-eminent commercial & military zeppelins the construction of British behemoths R100 & its sister ship R101 & the calamitous losses of USS Akron in 1933 & LZ129 Hindenburg in 1937 events which ultimately heralded the end of large-scale airship production. The historical development of airships is seen to be protracted & fractious as the armed forces of leading European & US powers toyed with commercial propositions while trying to bend them to military uses. The book examines the axial role of Count Zeppelin the development of the Zeppelin in Germany as bomber & reconnaissance craft & the way the British Admiralty French Italian & American engineers attempted to imitate German design. The airship coincided with a time of international strife: mass unemployment General Strikes the Wall Street Crash & the growing shadow of fascist tumult. Airship draws on original sources official documents & private letters including interviews with figures like Mary Stopes-Roe daughter of the airship builder Barnes Wallis. It identifies & analyses the central themes & bold personalities of the era: forming a text that is readable entertaining & authoritative. The book is fully referenced with newly discovered first-hand material & a detailed bibliography. ...

Airway to the East 1918-1920 has been written & compiled using photographs & a diary discovered by Clive Semple in his fathers attic after his death in 1971. Once he retired in 1996 he set to work researching the background to his fathers collection. The diary & two of the albums were the basis of Clives first book Diary of a Night Bomber Pilot in WW1 which was published in 2008. The third album & most importantly the scrap book provided the starting point for research into a sorry tale of RAF mismanagement which is revealed in this book. The Balfour Declaration in 1917 promised the Jews a homeland in Palestine. This contradicted a previous promise which Britain had made to the Arabs guaranteeing them independence if they helped drive the Turks out of Palestine & Syria. The Turks were duly driven out. When the Arabs discovered that they had been swindled they revolted & the British Army was unable to contain the unrest. It was decided to reinforce the Army with a fleet of bombers & fifty-one set off from England & France to fly to Cairo in the summer of 1919. Seventeen crashed or were otherwise destroyed en route & eight airmen were killed. The story got into the newspapers & Parliament demanded a Court of Enquiry. The evidence of mismanagement looked so bad that before the enquiry began Hugh Trenchard Chief of the Air Staff decided to hold it behind closed doors at the Air Ministry. The enquiries findings were suppressed by the Secretary of State for Air Winston Churchill & the newspapers never followed up the story. Fortunately the enquiry proceedings were filed away at the Air Ministry & it was a newspaper cutting which Clive found in his fathers scrap book dealing with the row in Parliament that led him to search through the Air Ministry files & uncover this account. Most histories of the RAF are written by retired senior RAF officers who have all avoided including this event in their written works. ...

Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace is the ultimate Big Brother survivor & in Aisleyne: Surviving Guns Gangs & Glamour" she reveals a shocking life story that surpasses any reality-show plotline. Her childhood journey began in a crazy punk household where Siouxsie Sioux & Boy George were regular visitors. It shattered for the first time with the nightmare of seeing her half-naked dad dragged bleeding from the bathroom by police after a suicide attempt & it ended when she saw her mum start a strict new life as a devout Jehovah's Witness. Hospitalised after an extreme bullying incident at school Aisleyne left home at 16 having been cut off by her mother & let down by her father. Alone in London Aisleyne's lifeline was a place in a hostel where she shared the roof over her head with the frightened women & predatory men of the city's gang culture. While some of her friends were lost to drugs knives & gun crime Aisleyne vowed to pick herself up & get out of there. Aisleyne threw herself into a new career as a promotions girl & glamour model. Slowly making a name for herself Aisleyne's big break came when she was selected to compete on Big Brother in 2006 & she was voted the most popular female housemate that year. Three years on Aisleyne is living proof that it is possible to escape the streets & make good. She's become a successful businesswoman fashion designer & established media celebrity. This is her remarkable story." ...