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    • By: Mike Bannister
    • Narrated by: Mike Bannister
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 371 ratings
    • Concorde is an enthralling personal account of what it takes to fly planes faster than the speed of sound, and of the events that lay behind 114 needless deaths—the 113 victims of the crash and, ultimately, Concorde herself....

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    • A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
    • By: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 27-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 698 ratings
    • Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. Malcolm Gladwell reexamines moments from the past and asks whether we got it right the first time....

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    • By: John Nichol
    • Narrated by: Thomas Judd
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • Nichol tells the remarkable tale of how the ejection seat was first conceived during the Second World War as countless lives were lost in accidents and in battle....

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    • By: Mike Sutton
    • Narrated by: Simon Bubb
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 25-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 657 ratings
    • The Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 is the most advanced multi-role combat aircraft in the world....

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    • How to Be a Fighter Pilot
    • By: Paul Tremelling
    • Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 28-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 177 ratings
    • Paul Tremelling was just seven years old when he watched the Royal Navy's Sea Harriers leave their home base in Somerset to do battle against the Argentine Air Force in the Falklands War. Two decades later, he would join this exclusive club....

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    • The Forgotten RAF Force That Won the Battle of the Atlantic
    • By: Leo McKinstry
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • In early 1943 Britain was engaged in an epic struggle for survival. As the deadly wolf packs of German U-boats roamed the Atlantic, supply lines and shipping losses fell victim to the carnage....

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    • British Airborne Forces in the Second World War
    • By: Saul David
    • Narrated by: Adam James
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Bestselling historian Saul David provides a riveting new history of the British airborne experience across the Second World War....

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    • The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot
    • By: Paul Beaver
    • Narrated by: Steve John Shepherd, Paul Beaver
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 08-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • The daring life story and astonishing adventures of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - Britain's greatest-ever pilot....

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    • The Elite Pathfinders of 627 Squadron
    • By: David Price
    • Narrated by: Greg Wagland
    • Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The story of one of the most remarkable–and feared–British aircraft of the Second World War: the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito fighter-bomber....

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    • By: Scott Bateman
    • Narrated by: Angus King
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow. Whether it’s war, natural disaster, or humanitarian emergency, for over fifty years the RAF’s Hercules force was the first in and last out of any crisis faced by the UK government around the globe.

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    • An Air Cav Huey Pilot in Vietnam
    • By: Tom A. Johnson
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 14-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 356 ratings
    • From June 1967 to June 1968, Tom Johnson accumulated an astonishing 1,600 flying hours piloting the UH-1 "Iroquois" - better known as the "Huey" - as part of the famous First Air Cavalry Division. His battalion was one of the most decorated units of the Vietnam War....

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    • Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II
    • By: Phillips Payson O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 22 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 18-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • World War II is usually seen as a titanic land battle, decided by mass armies, most importantly those on the Eastern Front. Phillips Payson O'Brien shows us the war in a completely different light....

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    • Highs and Lows of Forces Life from the Longest Serving Female RAF Chinook Force Crewmember
    • By: Liz McConaghy
    • Narrated by: Liz McConaghy
    • Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 14-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Liz McConaghy spent a total of seventeen years flying with the RAF’s Chinook Fleet. Aged just 21, she was the youngest aircrew member to deploy to Iraq and was also the only woman on the Chinook wing for four years....

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    • A Gulf War A-10 Pilot's Combat Journal
    • By: Buck Wyndham
    • Narrated by: Jim Seybert
    • Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • The mighty, iconic A-10 Warthog was first thrust into battle in Operation Desert Storm. The men who took it through walls of flak and surface-to-air missiles to help defeat the world's fourth-largest army were as untested as their airplanes....

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    • The Classic Account of WWII Aerial Combat
    • By: Pierre Clostermann
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • Pierre Clostermann DFC was one of the oustanding Allied aces of the Second World War. A Frenchman who flew with the RAF, he survived over 420 operational sorties, shooting down scores of enemy aircraft while friends and comrades lost their lives in the deadly skies above Europe....

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    • The Memoir of Dambuster Guy Gibson
    • By: Guy Gibson
    • Narrated by: Nigel Gair
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 29-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • A definitive new edition of a classic memoir, published in association with the RAF Museum. Guy Gibson was the leader of the famous Dambusters raid and Enemy Coast Ahead is a vivid, honest account, widely regarded as one of the best books on World War II....

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    • The Story of Britain’s Iconic Display Team
    • By: David Montenegro
    • Narrated by: Ben Willbond
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • It's now over 50 years since the Red Arrows first took to the skies, transfixing the British public with their astonishing displays of daredevil precision and aerial aerobatics....

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    • The Memoirs of a Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot
    • By: Heinz Knoke, Richard Overy - introduction
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • Heinz Knoke was one of the outstanding German fighter pilots of the Second World War. This vivid firsthand record of his experiences has become a classic among aviation memoirs and is a fascinating counterbalance to the numerous accounts written by Allied pilots....

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    • In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission
    • By: Richard H. Graham
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • The Lockheed SR-71, unofficially known as the Blackbird, was an advanced, long-range, Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed by Lockheed Skunk Works. SR-71 pilot and instructor Colonel Richard Graham offers a rare cockpit perspective....

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    • Captivating Tales from a Vulcan and Nimrod Air Electronics Officer
    • By: Jim Walls
    • Narrated by: Graham Mack
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 31-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Since he was a child in the 1950s watching Vampires and Meteors operating from RAF Turnhouse, Jim Walls wanted to fly aircraft; he just never envisaged that his flying career would be spent in the back seat as opposed to the front....

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