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British combat airplane Hawker Siddeley Harrier have its very important place in aviation history as well it is very first airplane with vertical take off and landing which is deployed in the operational service and it is still in use. It start its operational career in the late ’60 and it is still in use [...]

Polikarpov family of fighter’s I-15, I-16 and I-153 were first Soviet fighters produced in serial mass production. More than 17.000 of these were produced and delivered to the units. At the beginning of the world war two Polikarpov fighters formed the backbone of VVS. Although they were successful fighters they were replaced in 1943 with [...]

Another very interesting new book in the DUTCH PROFILE series was released by the end of 2009. Just like the earlier described Fokker D.XXI volume it is a book on aircraft types used by the Dutch air force and naval air service. This new publication is written by mr. Frits Gerdessen, also author of the [...]

The appearance of naval aircraft in the late 1930s and early 1940s was governed by considerations that were common to most military aircraft of the period. In the wartime the primary consideration was concealment of the aircraft from the enemy; but at the same time, it had to be readily identified as friendly by allied [...]

This 36 page softcover monograph has everything the modeller would need to super detail their kit- factory drawings, scale planes, archive photos, colour plates and a walk around of a surviving PZL 24 in Turkey. Monograph is published on Polish language but summary on English is provided. Drawings are excellent quality and are present both [...]

Last week, on 22 October 2009 the first batch of the Fokker S-14 book finally arrived at the publisher’s office at Maarssen. First book sales took place on Saturday 24 October during the large IPMS Euro Scaling event at Nieuwegein. The book is the result of almost 3 years of intensive research both by me [...]

During the Second World War, German designers were developing projects well beyond their time. Some magnificent machines even entered the service but many of them remained in various phases of developing from drawings to prototypes. That warbirds are what we call today Luftwaffe 1946 projects. These birds are of great interest today for many researchers [...]

Operation Dragoon was the Allied invasion of Southern France between Toulon and Cannes on 15th August 1944. The operation was originally, and for most of the planning stage, known as “Anvil”. The code name had been changed because it is believed that the Germans discovered it and its significance. The plan originally envisaged a mixture [...]

Number sixteen of the SAM monograph publications is on one of the most beautiful aircraft ever built: the Hawker Hunter. Just like the other volumes, this book is fully packed with photos (and a lot of them in colour!), colour profiles and technical drawings from the Hunter manual. In almost 130 pages, the following chapters [...]