Duke Hawkins Books / C2A

90 pages Softbound With this book, everything started. Upon buying a 1/48 scale Jaguar, I wanted to add some detail to the kit and started looking for a book that shows every detail of the impressive low-level flying jet. Not finding what I was...

106 pages Softbound Dassault has a long tradition in developing delta winged fighter jets and one of the most impressive ones is the Mirage 2000. This 108 page book shows the jet both in action and in detail. While a lot of the photographs were made...

114 pages Softbound The Fulcrum dazzled airshow spectators in the early 1990s when they were brought from the recently fallen iron curtain. This impressive twin-engined fighter jet is shown in never before seen detail in this book, from fuselage to...

114 pages Softbound This book is the first one – and still the only one to our knowledge – that show the Typhoon in so much detail, including the stealthy air intakes, the cockpit and the jet in maintenance. Since its development, the...

82 pages Softbound Although this book counts just 84 pages, it is filled to the rim with never before seen detail photographs of the Swedish double delta fighter jet. For this book, we photographed the jets of the Swedish Air Force Historic Flight in...

82 pages Softbound This 84 page book brings every detail of the jet, while not forgetting some impressive action shots, both on the ground and in the air. Included are Mirages from France, Spain, Libya, Qatar and South Africa, as well as those...

138 pages Softbound This book consists of 2 parts: The British-built Harrier GR.7 and GR.9 and the American built Harrier Its, with the Night Attack harrier and the radar-equipped version of the hover jet. This 140-page book shows the many differences...

114 pages Softbound When in 2020 we had the opportunity to make all the photos we wanted to make a book on the Russian Mach 3 MiG-31 Foxhound, we couldn’t believe our luck. No-one had been this close to the massive jet before. And an impressive...

> 114 pages Softbound The Mirage III is one of the oldest jets we have have written a book about, but it is a truly iconic jet. This book shows every part of the Mirage IIIC, E, B, RS but also the Belgian Mirage 5, the 5F and even the Venezuelan...

> 90 pages Softbound For more than 50 years, the SIAI-Marchetti has been the elementary trainer for thousands of you pilots. This Italian built trainer is agile, strong, maneuverable and easy to maintain. This book shows every angle of it, ideal to...

114 pages Softbound Close air support aircraft are very important in modern warfare, but because they fly at very low altitudes, are also vulnerable for ground fire. This is why the Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot, which was designed for this role, is equipped...

114 pages Softbound The Alpha Jet is a jet trainer that doesn’t seem to ago at all, even though it flew for the first time 5 decades ago. For this book, we went into the maintenance hangars at Beauvechain Air Base in Belgium and visited the...

138 pages Softbound The brand new A400M is the new European transport aircraft that in many air forces has taken over from the C-130 Hercules. While it is much bigger and faster than the C-130, it is still quite smaler in size compared to the C-17. In...

138 pages Softbound This book brings a complete portrait of the EA-6B Prowler, as it was in use with the US Navy and US Marines. This book shows the 4-seat electronic, carrier-based jet from every angle and in close detail. And there are a lot of...

114 pages Softbound Very few have been released on the Transall, let alone one that brings a walk-around type of photographs, allowing modelers to detail their kits. So, with our 22nd book, we did just that. In 116 pages, the details of the C-160 are...

138 pages Softbound The Fitter is one of the few fighter jets that was equipped with variable sweep-wings – the Su-22 is the export version of the Russian Su-17 and was in use with air forces of mainly eastern European countries, like Poland,...

114 pages Softbound This is the first book in the series dedicated to a helicopter. This book is built up into two parts: the first one shows the Belgian A109 demo team in close up during their airshow routine, preparations, and encounters with the...

178 pages Softbound This iconic fighter jet needed some 180 pages to be shown in every detail. Designed by the aviation legend Kelly Johnson, the Starfighter was one of the first mass production jets capable of operating at speeds of up to Mach 2. The...

194 pages Softbound The Strike Eagle evolved from the F-15 Eagle and is one of the most used all-round fighter jets in the inventory of the US Air Force. The two-seat jet is capable of taking a huge weapons load at high speed to difficult to reach...

178 pages Softbound Awesome, awesome, awesome. There is no other way to describe the B-1B Lancer. Especially when it is taking off with the blue flames of the afterburner lighting up the sky or when it flies close to the speed of sound at just a few...

138 pages Softbound Only months before the war in Ukraine broke out, we were able to photograph the Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback in Russia. While working on the book, the war was in its first year and in full swing. During this period, over 20 of the type...

178 pages Softbound The Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II is one of the oddest looking fighter jets operating today, but loves by the men on the ground as a close air support asset. Capable of turning in a very tight spot, packed with weapons and well...

114 pages Softbound The Swedish Saab Draken was the first jet in the world to perform the famous “Cobra”, a maneuver that flipped the jet vertically, made it stall and then recover by pushing the nose steeply downwards, long before the...

146 pages Softbound Developped to replace the aging A-4 Skyhawk within the US Navy, the Corsair II was a compact fighter jet, capable of carrying a huge weapons load. This books shows not only the A-7E, the most used version of the Corsair II, but...

114 pages Softbound This book was introduced exactly 50 years after the first flight of the BAE Systems Hawk and is probably the first one to show it in this close detail. The book holds one of the biggest maintenance chapters we’ve ever done,...

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178 pages Softbound For decades, the Sea King has operated in air forces around the world, in a variety of roles: from submarine hunter and Search and Rescue helicopter to troop transport and Airborne Early Warning asset. This 180 page book shows the...

138 pages Softbound The Blackburn Buccaneer is one of those typical British aircraft designs that has proven itself more versatile and effective than originally intended. While it was extremely stable when flying at high speeds and very low level for...

218 pages Softbound DH-037 is the most extensive book we have done so far, with 220 pages. And this book will help me with the 16 kits I have of the Tomcat in my stash in different scales. Now, all I need is the time and currage to build them! Tomcat...

114 pages Softbound The newest book in our Duke Hawkins series is a 116 page book on the Dassault Super Etendard. The compact jet was for 4 decades the backbone of the French Navy on its aircraft carriers. This book offers you a very close look at the...

82 pages Softbound This is the oldest jet we have had in our series: a popular first generation jet of which nearly 3500 were built and flown with 12 countries. The Thunderstreak was the first fighter-bomber equipped with swept wings and was flown for...

138 pages Softbound DH-040 is 140 pages filled with details and action on the last British-built supersonic interceptor. Two engines stacked one on top of the other, swept wings, getting to a high altitude in the blink of an eye!

146 pages Softbound This book brings an extensive portrait of the Seahawk helicopter, which is in use with the US Navy and other military forces around the world. In over 330 photos, the MH-60 Romeo and Sierra are shown in action and close detail...

82 pages Softbound This 84 page book brings an extensive portrait of the British first generation fighter jet, the Gloster Meteor F.8 and its fighter-reconnaissance version FR.9. The aircraft, which origins go back to 1943, was introduced after the...

146 pages Softbound The NH90 helicopter, built by NH Industries, is a medium sized, European built military helicopter that was ordered by 14 different air arms. While the introduction of the type has not been without its problems, today 12 of them...

114 pages Softbound Is there a sound more beautiful than the Merlin engine of a Spitfire when it flies by full throttle? This is one of the most iconic aircraft of the Second World War and the first book in our Classic series. In 116 pages, we bring...

114 pages Softbound Thousands of pilots made their first flight in military aviation in the T-6. During and long after the Second World War, the Harvard or Texan was in service with air forces around the world. A book showing every detail of this...

> 114 pages Softbound While the Supermarine Spitfire took most of the spotlights during the Battle of Britain, the Hawker Hurricane did much of the heavy work. This third book in the Classic series shows the WW2 fighter aircraft in very close detail...

> 114 pages Softbound The 4th book in our Classic series is on one of the fastest aircraft built during World War 2: the De Havilland Mosquito. This all-rounder, mostly built out of wood, was equipped with a pair of Merlin engines. The combination...

> 114 pages Softbound A 116-page book on the iconic North American P-51D Mustang, with photos from airworthy Mustangs from all over the world. No part of the Mustang is overlooked in this book, including the cockpit, wings, landing gear, fuselage...

106 pages Softbound When you get the opportunity to visit an aircraft carrier, you take it. The first time we got this chance, Gert Trachez and Kris Christiaens were happy to go to the Spanish aircraft carrier and assault ship Juan Carlos I (Primero)...

172 pages Hardbound Written by Michael Stephan, it brings the story of the F-15C and F-15E in service with the USAF’s 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath. Rotà, the home base of both the ship and the squadrons flying from it. Written by...

404 pages Hardbound 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the first flight of the F-16 Fighting Falcon. While in some countries, the F-16 is being taken out of service – Norway and The Netherlands – in others, the jet is just about to enter...