My first ibook is available at Apple’s ibook store. Just $18.99US. https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/illustrated-history-no-126/id841037541?mt=11 From D-day to VE Day No 126 RCAF was the highest scoring fighter Wing as part of the RAF’s 2nd Tactical Air Force. This illustrated history chronicles the wing’s many highlights and shows the Spitfire in the fighter-bomber role, as well as its […]
My fourth Duel Series book, Spitfire V vs. Mc. 202, is at the printers and will be available in 2014. The Spitfire Mk V and Italy’s Macchi Mc 202 were probably the most evenly matched fighters of World War II. In terms of overall performance the Mc 202 had the edge. But when it came […]
Rushed into action on 22 July 1944 to help counter the V1 threat, Britain’s Gloster Meteor I was the first jet fighter to enter RAF service. At low and medium altitudes the Meteor was faster than its piston-engined contemporaries, which in turn made it perfectly suited to ‘anti-Diver’ V1 operations. On 4 August the Meteor […]
In the first part of a major new Aeroplane series, in which we compare five aircraft from specific points in aviation history to establish a clear winner,Donald Nijboer analyses five fighters on the front line in mid-1940.. Since the end of the Second World War the process of assessing and measuring which weapon system was […]
Fighter pilots are the elite of the elite. It can take years of training to produce a fighter pilot and even longer to produce a plane that is worthy of their skills. Yet a dogfight can last only minutes. Discover what it felt like to be a fighter pilot during World War II, flying some […]
