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Clive Caldwell, Air Ace
Allen & Unwin 2006; US$ 31.81A celebration of the astounding military achievements of Captain Clive 'Killer' Caldwell, Australia's top scoring fighter pilot during the Second World War. more...
Jack Davenport
Allen & Unwin 2009; US$ 31.81Jack Davenport was a well-decorated,well-known, and well-respected member of the Royal Australian Air Force serving with distinction in Bomber Command and Coastal Command in World War 2. After the war he became a very successful businessman and a very generous philanthropist. more...
Israeli Mirage III and Nesher Aces
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 15.95Israeli delta fighters pilots have been credited with almost 300 kills between 1966 and 1974, and dozens of them became aces. The Israeli aerial kill exchange rate and overall air-to-air performance was phenomenal. Although the Israeli pilots were flying Mach 2 fighters, they lacked any modern radar equipment and their MiG-21 flying opponents should... more...
Supporting Expeditionary Aerospace Forces
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95This is an assessment of the manner in which the Jet Engine Intermediate Maintenance (JEIM) shops of the United States Air Force can best be configured to support Expeditionary Aerospace Forces both in peacetime and in war. more...
Supporting Air and Space Expeditionary Forces
RAND Corporation 2005; US$ 9.95The U.S. Air Force is committed to the Air and Space Expeditionary Force concept and the transformation that is necessary for it to project power quickly to any region of the world. Forward positioning of heavy war reserve materiel (WRM) in optimal forward support locations (FSLs) is key to the Air Force?s ability to respond to a wide variety of scenarios. more...
Impossible Certainty
RAND Corporation 2006; US$ 9.95Cost analysts must predict how much money the military will spend on weapon systems, often without perfect knowledge of tomorrow's technology, economic conditions, and events. This book addresses how such estimates can be made more realistic and offers recommendations to improve communication among analysts and decisionmakers. more...
Dambusters
Ebury Publishing 2009; US$ 10.67On the night of 16-17 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster bombers from 617 Squadron headed for Germany. Their mission, for which they had been trained under a cloak of absolute secrecy, was to destroy the dams of the Ruhr Valley and in doing so cripple the Nazi industrial war effort. It was to become one of the most famous raids of WW2. For the first... more...
Last of the Few
Ebury Publishing 2010; US$ 10.67After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk. Britain now stood alone to face Hitler's inevitable invasion attempt. For the German army to be landed across the Channel, Hitler needed mastery of the skies - the RAF would have to be broken. So every day, throughout the summer, German... more...
Air Force Procurement Workforce Transformation
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95To assist the Air Force in the process of significantly changing the way it purchases goods and services, this monograph reviews related commercial-sector activities and skills, suggests models for training programs, and includes a framework of metrics to track progress and refine procurement-workforce-development efforts over time. more...
Air Force Service Procurement
RAND Corporation 2005; US$ 9.95To assist the Air Force in the process of changing the way it purchases services, this report reviews related commercial sector practices and suggests metrics to track progress and refine services procurement efforts over time. more...









