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‘I absolutely love this book. Seriously well-informed, seriously funny, authoritative and full of passion for its subject. The care lavished on aeroplanes that never even existed beyond the drawing board is worth the price of admission alone. Joe Coles always finds a fresh angle on a familiar subject, but he’s even better bringing to life an unfamiliar one. Or just letting imagination run riot with unlikely flights of fancy that still somehow manage to ring true. Every word and every picture in The Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes has been chosen with a knowledge, enthusiasm and attention to detail that’s irresistible. No one writes about aviation like Joe Coles. We’re lucky to have him. The Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes is my aviation book of the year.’

– Rowland White

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Charge of the foam-sprayed maniacs Of all air force missions, torpedo bombing was the most perilous; In 1942, the RAF estimated a crew had only a 3% chance of surviving a 2nd tour. The reason was simple: they flew low and relatively slowly along a predictable path towards often-fiercely defended ships, yet they were also…

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11 Airliners That Got ‘Drafted’ into Wild Military Roles

The unexpected second life of passenger aircraft Next time you’re eating a lasagne on your holiday flight, pause to consider the aircraft type you are flying in may have well have gone to war, spied or tested deadly laser weapons or even hunted submarines! Here are 11 airliners that got ‘drafted’ into wild military roles…

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Top 10 Aircraft Beloved By Boring Bastards

Ranting against the aviation bores you’ve had to endure for so many years Two leading military historians (Al Murray and James Holland), a former Sea Harrier pilot (Paul Tremelling), a former Lynx Observer (Bing Chandler), and two of Hush-Kit’s drunkest writers (Joe Coles and Edward Ward) walk into a pub. Together, they vent their spleens…

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