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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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The Most Decisive Aircraft in History Was Not the Mustang

It was something utterly different Historian James Holland made a strong and elegant case for the P-51 Mustang being “the most decisive aircraft in history”, but let me offer an alternative: the Douglas SBD Dauntless. Thanks for reading Hush-Kit Aviation Newsletter! This post is public so feel free to share it. Share If ‘decisive’ means…

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A Secret History of the Harrier

Michael Pryce goes deep into the strange untold stories behind the Harrier From intuition machines to Mach 3 jump-jets, via illicit liaisons in Paris, the story of the Harrier is as bizarre and exciting as the machine itself. We spoke to Michael Pryce, author of Jump Jet: The Secret History of the Harrier, to find…

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10 Reasons the Fairey Fulmar was the F-14 Tomcat of World War II

The Fairey Fulmar was the F-14 Tomcat of its day, and I will prove it. Comparing the Fairey Fulmar to the Grumman F-14 Tomcat is sacrilegious, but I don’t care. One was a stolid British 260-mph, piston-engined monoplane with a reputation for mediocrity; the other, a Cold War sex-and-death god jet eternally glowing in the…

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Rowland White Shares the Saga of the Mosquito in Britain’s Lost Race to Mach 1

Mosquito mothership and Mini-Miles during Operation NEPTUNE ‘One of those flashes of genius that can change the course of history.’ –Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown Hush-Kit Aviation Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. If General Hap Arnold was feeling at all jaded, the…

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