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The de Havilland Tiger Moth must rank amongst the most well-known aircraft of all time, with 8, 868 built in the UK and abroad, serving with around 40 air arms worldwide and training thousands of pilots from the 1930s throughout WW2 to the early 1970s,...

49 pages

AUTHOR: Tony Buttler FORMAT: 36 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Charles Stafrace FORMAT: 88 pages; softbound Controversy and competency is the best way to describe the first variable geometry combat aircraft to enter operational service anywhere in the world. This was the F-111 Aardvark, the typical...

AUTHOR: Matthew Willis FORMAT: 36 pages; softbound The Sopwith Pup, as it is unofficially but universally known, was one of the first true British fighter aircraft, and one of the most significant of the First World War. It played a key part in...

60 pages; softbound

By Oleg Rastrenin53 pages; softbound

No.108 Martin Mariner & Marlin by Kev Darling The Glenn L Martin company would produce the most successful range of seaplanes to enter US service. The first off the blocks was the PBM Mariner that would see extensive service with the US Navy in various...

by Charles StafraceThe Douglas C-54 Skymaster, a direct adaptation of the civilian DC-4 while still on the production line, became the outstanding long-range four-engined transport aircraft of the Second World War. With its origins as a civilian...

By Adrian M BalchThe 1957 Defence Review and subsequent British aircraft industry overhaul resulted in all the smaller helicopter companies - Bristol, Fairey and Saunder-Roe being absorbed by Westland. These acquisitions brought existing models with...

45 pages by Adrian M Balch As the mighty battlewagon ploughed through the waters of the Pacific few would have noticed the little aircraft perched on the ships stern. To many it was 'old, slow and ugly' while to others it was veritable life saver...

by Charles Stafrace Never glamorous and not receiving the recognition showered on its deck mates, the shipboard Douglas A3D Skywarrior will be remembered by US Navy fans and historians for many reasons, most of all because it figured prominently in...

by Des Brennan The Tornado F.3 spent just over twenty-three years in frontline operational service with the Royal Air Force compared to a similar period for air-defence Phantoms, and twenty-eight years for the Lightning. While every operational...

by Charles Stafrace There was a little ghost like about the McDonnell F-4 Phantom 11. It's huge bulk, a hunched shape that exuded a wrestler's strength, the upward slant of it's wingtips contrasting sharply with the acute droop of its tailplane, all...

By Tony Buttler The Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle is something of an 'odd man out' in the list of British World War Two military aircraft. It was manufactured entirely in a special factory as sub-contract work, to save light alloys it was intended...

Author: William Harrison The first RAF front line fighter to achieve more than 200 mph was the Hawker Fury, and its naval counterpart the Hawker Nimrod. These two attractive fighters came from the design office of the late Sydney Camm, Hawker's...

Author: Tony Buttler The Douglas F4D Skyray (always known as the 'Ford' because of its designation) was intended to be the US Navy's first supersonic fighter, though in fact it was really a transonic aircraft. A very handsome machine it had a...

Author: Kev Darling Like most nations America likes to celebrate its first's. Strangely enough this didn't seem to apply to the first jet bomber in USAF service, the North American B-45 Tornado. Although the airframe layout bore some resemblance to...

Author: Ken Darling When the US Navy decided to enter the jet age it was no surprise that it turned to Grumman for its first carrier borne jet fighter bomber with a recon option. The first design produced by the company was a mighty beast, more akin...

Author: Nikolay Yakubovich Long overdue in the Warpaint range, the MiG-15 is one of the most important and influential aircraft to come out of the early years of the Cold War and was to see active service in a wide range of theatres and with a great...

Author: Ian White Born out of a United States Navy (USN) requirement for a carrier-based, tactical, nuclear strike aircraft and designed under the supervision of the Douglas Aircraft Company's Edward H.Heinemann, the Skyhawk went on to become one of...

Author: Dave Hooper; 49 pages The Albatros D.III was flown by many top German aces during World War One, including Wilhelm Frankl, Erich L??wenhardt, Manfred von Richthofen, Karl Emil Sch??fer, Ernst Udet, and Kurt Wolff and was the preeminent...

de Havilland (Canada) DHC-1 CHIPMUNK - by Adrian M BalchThe Chipmunk is probably the most famous and well-known post-war piston-engined basic training aircraft after the Tiger Moth, for which it was designed as a replacement by de Havilland in Canada. It...

Author: Nikolay Yakubovich/ 65 pages The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 Fresco followed on from the successful MiG-15 design providing the Soviet air forces with a high-subsonic fighter aircraft that was able to hold its own against many of the NATO...

Author: Charles Straface / 62 pages The Bristol Britannia, known as the Whispering Giant because of its silent engines, was the world's first long-range turboprop-powered aircraft. It was built for the Royal Air Force as well as for civil airlines,...

Author: Charles Straface / 122 pages The US Navy embarked on the VFX fighter programme when it became obvious that the weight, engine and manoeuvrability issues plaguing F-111B, the naval variant of the Tactical Fighter Experimental (TFX), would...

Author: Kev Darling / 98 pages When USAF went searching for a new jet trainer in the early 1950's to replace the Lockheed T-33, it came as a great surprise to all when Cessna, best known for producing light aircraft, actually won the competition...

Author: Matthew Willis One of the great unsung keystones in the development of aerial combat, the Bristol Scout was originally designed as a racing aircraft. It was used by the RNAS and the RFC as a 'scout', or fast reconnaissance machine, and was...

Author: Nikolay Yakubovich By the time Operation Barbarossa unfolded on 22 June 1941 some 981 MiG-3s were in service with the Soviet Air Forces (VVS), the Soviet Air Defence Forces (PVO) and Soviet Naval Aviation, but the aircraft had undergone a...

Author Nikolay Jakubovich68 pagesPLUS 8 pages of A2 page plans8 pages of Colour ProfilesNever seen before ImagesNikolay Yakubovich documents fully this milestone in Soviet aviation history. The Ilyushin Il-28 (NATO reporting name 'Beagle') was the...

Author Adrian M Balch64 pages15 pages of Colour ProfilesOver 150 many never seen before images The Auster In British Military & foreign air arm service Stemming from the original American Taylorcraft design, the British Auster is arguably as well...

Author Kev Darling93 pages16 pages of Colour Profiles4 pages detailed plans Over 150 many never seen before images The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress has become an icon although it was the result of a diffi-cult birth courtesy of various officials whose...

Author Adrian M. Balch 92 pages 16 pages of Colour Profiles 4 pages detailed plans Over 150 many never seen before images When the prototype Douglas DC-3 - actually a DST Douglas Sleeper Transport first flew from Clover Field, Santa Monica, California...

By Jakub Fojtík72 pages 12 pages of Colour Profilesdetailed plansOver 150 many never seen before images The Aero L-29 Delfin was Czechoslovakia's first domestically-designed and constructed jet aircraft, in response to a major requirement for a...

By Adrian Balch48 pages 10 pages of Colour Profilesdetailed plansOver 150 many never seen before images The de Havilland Dragon Rapide has been a much-loved twin-engined bi-plane icon of the 1930s British aviation industry and even today there are...

By William Harrison52 pages 10 pages of Colour Profilesdetailed plansOver 150 many never seen before images With more than 8,750 built the Oxford was a well thought-out design that was based on their Airspeed Envoy, a similar shaped twin-engine...

By Kev Darling104 pages 20 pages of Colour Profilesdetailed plansOver 350 many never seen before images The Douglas SBD Dauntless earned itself a reputation as a great dive bomber even though its antecedents were very much of pre-war origin. Many...

By Andy Evans50 pages Now you see it now you don't! The F-117's retirement may have seemed premature, but has it really gone? The informative text traces the story of this remarkable aircraft from its Have Blue origins to its withdrawal from active...

By Adrian Balch54 pages The de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver is a single-engine high-wing pro-peller-driven short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft developed and manu-factured by de Havilland Canada. It has been mainly operated as a bush plane and has...

By Mike Verier 104 pages * £28.00 * over 20 pages Colour Profiles * 250 Images *detailed plans* The full story of the first true Multi-Role Combat Aircraft, the OV-10 Bronco, still flying operationally after nearly six decades of service, is told...

By Adrian Balch 53 pages; softbound The Vickers VC.1 Viking was a British twin-engine short-range airliner derived from the Vickers Wellington bomber and built by Vickers-Armstrongs Limited at Brooklands near Weybridge in Surrey. After the Second World...

By Andy Evans 57 pages; softbound During the 1960s, Dassault commenced development of what would be-come the Mirage F1 as a private venture, alongside the larger Mirage F2. Work on the F1 eventually took precedence over the more costly F2, which was...

90 pages; softbound by Colin Ovens Consider the title "Royal Air Force Transport Command"... to many readers this may prompt images of huge formations of Dakotas, disgorging paratroops over Normandy, Arnhem, or the Rhine; others will have a...

Fall of Iron - Light and Medium bomber aircraft of World War 2Authors Gary Hatcher & Chris MeddingsFall of Iron is the first in a series of compendium volumes covering military aircraft with a focus on some of the less well-covered subjects. The series...

65 pages

65 pages

Colour Art work by Mark Rolfe and Jan PolcAuthor Paul Lucas What to build next? Inspirational and original reference material has been a cornerstone of SAM since its inception, and 'Colour Conundrum' is designed specifically to offer the modeller...

Colour Art work by Mark Rolfe and Jan PolcAuthor Paul Lucas Guideline Publications is pleased to announce the second 'Colour Conundrum Compendium'. With this further release the Author focuses on three themes: the RAF in the Second World War, the Post...

Author Paul LucasGuideline Publications is pleased to announce the third 'Colour Conundrum Compendium'. This volume collates two groups of articles, the first dealing with the RAF's 'exotic' Tropical Land and Sea Schemes and colours from 1933-1945,...

By David Grummitt A 64-page reference/photo album Atlantic Resolve: NATO's Show of Strength 2014-2018. A reference to modern NATO, especially US, and partner nations (esp. Ukraine) armour on exercise in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, the Baltic States and...

By Gary Hatcher Atlantic Resolve is a response to Russia's actions in Ukraine, mainly the war in Donbass, and is funded under the European Reassurance Initiative. The US took several immediate steps to demonstrate solidarity with NATO, such as...

62 pages; softbound by Colin Ovens Interceptor Force is the companion volume to Colin Oven's "Strategic Force", also published by Guideline, and covers a similar time period, from 1950 until the dissolution of Fighter Command in 1968. At the end...

Author: Jan Polc New from Guideline is this innovative collection of artworks and scale drawings culled from the famous Warpaint series and collected in a single volume presenting eight iconic US military aircraft types from the Second World War...

An exciting new 44 page photographic title from Guidelines Publications �?Post War Panzers�� compiled by a name familiar to many, Frazer Grey.This title contains many quality photographs (some in colour, all are captioned) of German armoured vehicles...

90 pages; softbound

97 pages; softbound

Warpaint Special no 3Written and Illustrated by Richard J Caruana Born during the dark days of World War 2, the Mosquito was the result of revolutionary thinking that started way back in 1936. Although originally designed and built as a bomber, it was...

68 pages; softbound Cessna's Bird Dog was designed and built to serve in what some might regard as the unglamorous field of Army co-operation at a time when attention was more often focused on a growing array of gleaming silver, nuclear-capable jet...

105 pages; softbound Author superb and respected Kev DarlingOver 200 images some never seen before16 pages of Colour Profiles2 page scale Plans4 pages of detailed Aircraft used by various units North American Aviation's P-51 Mustang is right up there in...

62 pages; softbound by Des Brennan Few military exploits have captured the public's imagination as much as the famous 'Dambusters' raid on the night of 16 - 17 May 1943. To mark the 80th anniversary of the escapade Guideline present Dambusters and the...

59 pages; softbound by Colin Ovens Bomber Command... What images can be generated by these two words! But exactly what image is it? It is more than likely that with both young and old, the image that most readily comes to mind is one of...

Author: David Grummitt Warpaint Armour is an exciting new series by Guideline License Publications. Each title will cover an important conflict or period, looking at the tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles that shaped pivotal moments in...

NATO Armour from the End of the Cold War to TodayEdited by David Grummitt; 82 pages The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 should have signalled a lasting 'peace dividend' for the countries of NATO. Instead within a decade,...

70 pages; softbound AUTHOR: Evans, A FORMAT: 70pp col/Bw/dwgs 297x210 Pb Produced by 'Scale Aircraft Modelling', this book is a complete guide to the Jaguar including an operational history, colours and markings. 6pp fold-out 1:72 scale plans...