Featuring Photographs from the Imperial War Museum.
Features:
- An illustrated A-Z catalogue of over 170 aircraft, including early planes used in World War I, fighters from the inter-war years and World War II, and the highly powerful supersonic jet aircraft of today.
- A guide to the different types of weapons used in air combat: machine-guns, cannons, rockets and missiles.
- Specification boxes for each aircraft provide at-a-glance information about the planes' country of origin, first flight, power, armament, size, weights and performance.
- Features colour and black and white photographs from the Imperial War Museum Photograph Archive, many never previously published.
- Includes facts and anecdotes about battles and fighter aces, and a glossary explaining key aviation terms and abbreviations.
