Militares

Britain established the world's first aircraft factory in 1909 after the Short brothers met up with the American Wright brothers and struck a deal. The industry expanded rapidly to rise to the challenge of World War One with such thoroughbreds as the Camel and the SE.5. The post-conflict slump (...)

"...An extraordinarily detailed account of the development of Royal Navy cruisers...This is a towering work, and one which any reader with even a passing interest in British cruiser development will want to own." -- Warship 2012 "...We enthusiastically recommend British Cruisers for those who are (...)

As early as 1979, Soviet aircraft designers started work on a program called I-90, a fighter for the 1990s. Two Soviet aircraft design bureaus took on the task, Mikoyan and Sukhoi. Work began in 1983 but with the dissolution of the Soviet Union the project stalled.In 2002 the Russian government (...)

Few can have imagined, when Rolls Royce first ran its new PV-12 aero engine in 1933, that the soon re-named Merlin would go on to be the most famous engine in the world. In a production run that lasted from 1936 to 1956, Rolls Royce built over 160,000 Merlins in 50 different variants, and over (...)

The Indonesian Confrontation that raged from 1963 to 1966 stemmed from Indonesia's opposition to the creation of Malaysia. Fighting in the challenging jungle terrain of Borneo and in the countryside straddling the Malaysia/Indonesia border, where there were few roads, posed significant logistical (...)

En vista de lo que te he comentado de la edad, te mando algo que he extraído para la contraportada que yo creo que puede quedar bien. Te adjunto la foto que he visto bien en Internet: De lo que se trata este libro es de saber cómo era y en que se utilizaba uno de aquellos pequeños barcos que (...)