Author:Cooksley, Peter G

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CLASSIC RAF BATTLES FROM WORLD WAR ONE TO THE PRESENT.

By: Armitage, Michael, editor-in-chief. (Peter Kilduff, Peter Cooksley, Michael Burns, John Ray, Ray Sturtivant, John Maynard, Tony Mason, Michael Gething, Ron Dick, Ken Delve, Mike Spick, et al.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Arms and Armour: 1995

Seller ID: 9850

ISBN: 185409291X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

171 pp, oblong large 8vo (8 7/8" H x 11 1/4" D). B&w maps. "Forty superb full-colour paintings, accompanied by detailed background narratives, show the RAF in action, from the dogfights of the First World War to missions in the Gulf War. (Represents) work of some of the very finest aviation artists working today. Sir Michael Armitage has assembled a first-class team of RAF veterans, historians and aviation experts with the brief to write the background history of the action depicted in each painting - arranged chronologically within the decades of RAF service." Dust jacket has a tiny closed ...
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VCs OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR: THE AIR VCs.

By: Cooksley, Peter G.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: N.P., Wrens Park: 1999

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 10375

ISBN: 0905778340

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

204 pp, 9 7/8" H. B&w photographs, reproductions, drawings. "Of more than 600 Victoria Crosses awarded to British and Empire servicemen during the First World War, nineteen were awarded to airmen of the newly formed Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service. Of these, four were posthumous awards and all but one of the total were for officers. Some of these valorous airmen were from humble backgrounds and with limited education, others were collegiate men from wealthy families, but in the words of one senior officer they all had in common 'the guts of a lion'. (This book) provides fascina...
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AIR WARFARE. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF 20TH CENTURY CONFLICT.

By: Cooksley, Peter G.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Arms and Armour: 1997

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29825

ISBN: 1854092235

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

287 pp, 10" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, maps. "This compilation of facts, figures and accounts provides a comprehensive reference for students (of aviation) at all levels. They will find comments on the inventors and manufacturers, the planners and strategists, the daring test pilots and the combative fighter and bomber crews; they will be able to mark the impact of each avionic advance, trace how and why it came to be and the nature of its deployment; they will note the devotion of the leading nations to air power, as a means of securing the peace as well as winnng wars; t...
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FLYPAST. NO. 92. MARCH 1989. (FLY PAST.)

By: Ellis, Ken, ed. (Ian Black, Mitch Mayborn, Peter Cooksley, Dave Graham, Arthur Pearcy, Ken Wixey, Dave Allport, Jeremy Collins, Colin Dodds, Phil Chinnery.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Key, Stamford, Lincs., 1989.:

Seller ID: 17284

70 pp, 11 11/16" H, soft cover (magazine format, stapled in wraps). Profusely illustrated with b&w and color photographs. Contents: On Target! (Llanbedr); Seaplane Shuttle (Virgin Islands Seaplane Shuttle); Photographer of the Year; Be A Fighter M eet VIP! (contest); Observer's Tale (spyplanes over the trenches); Lucky Partners (nose art); Preservation Review 1988; The Squadron (North Weald); Ground-Hugging Starfighters (Belgium's F-104s); News (death of Tommy Sopwith - rebirth of a S w i f t ) ; N otebook (news special from Canada); Preservation News (P-51s, C-47s); Aviation Archaeology (B...
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FLYPAST. NO. 93. APRIL 1989. (FLY PAST.)

By: Ellis, Ken, ed. (Peter Cooksley, Ray Edwards, Francois Prins, Cliff Hoyle, Ruth Sligh, Chuck Sloat, Ian McLachlan, Dave Allport, Dave Smith, Ross McPherson.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Key, Stamford, Lincs., 1989.:

Seller ID: 17285

71 pp, 11 11/16" H, soft cover (magazine format, stapled in wraps). Profusely illustrated with b&w and color photographs. Contents: Observer's Tale (operational career of 'Peter' Wilson); 'Oboe' Mosquitoes (Pin-point bombing by 'Oboe' equipped Mos quitoes); Sir Philip's Cobra (Sir Philip Sassoon and his fleet); Sir Thomas (Sopwith); A Survivor - Just (One of Boscombe Down's Harvards); Insubstantial Evidence (Whitley sortie); Jet Heritage (Jet Heritage Collection, Bournemouth); Skybo s s ( C o r s a i r); News (death of Roland Fraissinet, demise of a Rapide); Preservation Project (CWH Lancas...
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FLYPAST. NO. 59. JUNE 1986. (FLY PAST.)

By: Ellis, Ken, ed. (Peter Gunti, Peter Cooksley, Rupert Cooling, Steve Kendall, Geoffrey P Jones, Robbie Shaw.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Key, Stamford, Lincs., 1986.:

Seller ID: 17251

70 pp, 11 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format - stapled in wraps). Profusely illustrated with b&w and color photographs. Contents: Pacific Island Wrecks (Japanese relics of WWII); War Diary (concludes Frank Marlowe's Aegean War); Wellington at 50; Wellington's Revenge (operations against Ju 88 bases in Sardinia); Preservation Project (Loch Ness Wellington); Collectair (insignia and medal collecting); Mignet's Flying Fleas; Turkish Delight (Turkish 'gate guardians'); Year of the Spi t f i r e . I n terior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, very l...
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MARINE AIRCRAFT OF THE 1914-1918 WAR.

By: Nowarra, Heinz J. With Bruce Robertson and Peter G. Cooksley.

Price: $70.00 USD

Publisher: Letchworth, Harleyford: 1966

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30188

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

210 pp, 11 1/4" H. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, 1/72 scale, 3-view drawings (many fold out) and colour frontispiece with tipped in corrected caption. Main section headings: Nation-by-Nation Review of Marine Aviation, 1914-1918; Landplanes at Sea; Austro-Hungarian Section; German Section; British Section; French Section; Russian Section; American Section; Italian Section; Marine Aircraft Markings, 1914-1918; Engines; Lighter-than-air Marine Aicraft; Ships that carried Aircraft, 1913-1919; Tables - Dimension and Performance of Marine Airc...
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FLYPAST. NO. 30. JANUARY 1984. (FLY PAST.)

By: Twite, Mike, ed. (Bob Ogden, Mike Twite, Philip Chinnery, Peter Cooksley, Ken Ellis, Frank Robinson, Peter Smith, Jeff Ethell, R Wallace Clarke, Andy Saunders, Stuart McKay, Stewart Evans.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Key, Stamford, Lincs., 1984.:

Seller ID: 17235

68 pp, 11 11/16" H, soft cover (magazine format, stapled in wraps). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, 4 pages color. Contents: FotoPost; Halberstadts in Virginia (WWI Halberstadts for sale); B-17 Sortie (flight of Sally B and RAF Museum' s B-17); Aladdin's Cave of Arizona (Pima Museum); Harriet Quimby - the 'Dresden Doll' (first woman to fly the Channel); Preservation Project: Viscount Whisky-Fox (Vickers Viscount); Catalina Rescue (search for survivors of sunken ship); Di v e B o m b e r (Curtis SBC series); Aviation Archaeology (wrecks); Preservation News; Meteor Retirement (Me...
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Author:Cooksley, Peter G