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  • VALIANT BOYS
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    VALIANT BOYS
    TONY BLACKMAN / ANTHONY WRIGHT
    A fascinating collection of personal accounts of operating Britain's first V bomber by aircrew and ground crew. Valiant Boys tells the story from the aircraft's birth, taking off from Vickers' tiny airfield at Wisley near Brooklands, to its premature death from fatigue. There are tales of testing atom bombs in the Australian desert, dropping hydrogen bombs in the middle of the ...

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  • V FORCE BOYS
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    V FORCE BOYS
    TONY BLACKMAN / ANTHONY WRIGHT
    The V Force consisted of three four-jet bombers, the Valiant, the Vulcan and the Victor, all required as part of the nuclear deterrent in the Cold War following the end of the Second World War. The Valiant was less aerodynamically advanced than the other two and went into service in 1955. The Vulcan entered service in 1956 and the Victor a year later. The Valiant finished opera...

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  • JAVA WATERS RUN DEEP
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    JAVA WATERS RUN DEEP
    TONY BLACKMAN
    Java Waters Run Deep, is an aviation mystery set a few years into the future. An airliner flying from Singapore to Adelaide disappears off the air traffic controllers screen 250 miles before crossing the Australian Coast. A bomb is suspected but Peter Talbert, aviation insurance expert, doesn't believe the ISIS claim that it destroyed the aircraft. Helped by the very attractive...

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  • DIRE STRAIT
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    DIRE STRAIT
    TONY BLACKMAN
    Tony Blackman, has written a very unusual story about a mystery submarine in the Torres Strait between Australia and Papua New Guinea. A Royal Australian Air Force aircraft is lost in the Torres Strait and the wreckage is found by a Royal Air Force aircraft on an exercise with the Australians. It becomes clear that the Australian and UK Governments are keeping secrets from one ...

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  • BLIND LANDING
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    BLIND LANDING
    TONY BLACKMAN
    Blind Landing is a detective mystery aviation thriller about the latest super jumbo aircraft that crashes at London Airport after a non-stop flight from Sydney. The story is woven around an aviation expert, Peter Talbert, his lawyer girl friend and the beautiful girl on the beach in Sydney who gives Peter the information he needs. The technology of the book is right up to date ...

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  • NOW YOU SEE IT
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    NOW YOU SEE IT
    TONY BLACKMAN
    This book is the fifth in an aviation mystery series featuring Peter Talbert insurance investigator. Two aircraft crash in fog on opposite sides of the World, in New York and Hong Kong. Talbert discovers that things are lot more complicated and dangerous than they seem. Meanwhile he applies to be Chairman of the new UK Transport Safety Board but again deceit is in evidence. The...

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  • TONY BLACKMAN TEST PILOT
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    TONY BLACKMAN TEST PILOT
    TONY BLACKMAN
    Tony Blackman OBE, MA FRAeS was educated at Oundle School and Trinity College Cambridge, where he obtained an honors degree in Physics. He learnt to fly in the RAF, trained as a test pilot, and then joined A V Roe where he became chief test pilot. As an expert in aviation electronics he was subsequently invited by Smiths Industries to join their Aerospace Board, initially as te...

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  • FLIGHT TO ST ANTONY
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    FLIGHT TO ST ANTONY
    TONY BLACKMAN
    Flight to St Antony is a modern accurate aviation mystery/thriller where the detective Peter Talbert, an aviation insurance expert, is instrumental in solving the reason why an airliner with over two hundred people on board is forced to ditch at night in the Caribbean near the island of St Antony. There are only a few survivors, all from the rear of the aircraft and they were s...

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  • THE RIGHT CHOICE
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    THE RIGHT CHOICE
    TONY BLACKMAN
    The Right Choice describes a competition between two manufacturers trying to sell their latest aircraft to an airline in the Philippines, both firms desperate to win. In the real world many tales are told about how such competitions are won and lost using every trick available. The contest in this book describes such a competition and the enormous pressures on the sales teams a...

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  • THE FINAL FLIGHT
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    THE FINAL FLIGHT
    TONY BLACKMAN
    This book is a Bermuda Triangle Mystery. A modern airliner flying from the Caribbean to Bermuda carrying 10 priceless impressionist paintings disappears near Bermuda. Peter Talbert, aviation expert and working for the airline, investigates the loss of the aircraft. He meets an art insurance specialist who has no time for all the aviation experts making technical guesses of the ...

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  • FLIGHT TESTING TO WIN
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    FLIGHT TESTING TO WIN
    TONY BLACKMAN
    No aircraft is absolutely safe. This book is about Aviation, from learning to fly, becoming a test pilot, flight testing, demonstrating on some of the third world's worst airfields, then specializing in Avionics and finally joining the Board of the UK Civil Aviation Authority, helping to formulate the regulations that the author had spent so many years living by. Many stories a...

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  • NIMROD BOYS
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    NIMROD BOYS
    TONY BLACKMAN / JOE KENNEDY
    Nimrod Boys is a complementary book to Nimrod Rise and Fall from acclaimed author Tony Blackman. It is a collection of over twenty firsthand accounts of operating the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod – an aircraft which served at the forefront of the Cold War. As the first jet-powered maritime aircraft, it could reach critical points for rescues or for operational requirements in rapid t...

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  • VULCAN BOYS
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    VULCAN BOYS
    TONY BLACKMAN
    An in-depth look at these Cold War–era bombers, in the words of those who flew them—includes photos.   The Vulcan, the second of the three V bombers built to guard the United Kingdom during the Cold War, has become an aviation icon like the Spitfire, its delta shape as instantly recognizable as the howling noise it makes when the engines are opened for takeoff.   Vulcan Boys is...

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  • VICTOR BOYS
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    VICTOR BOYS
    TONY BLACKMAN / GARRY O'KEEFE
    "The stirring story of the achievements of the Victor, told by those who flew it and fixed it . . . well illustrated with spectacular photographs." — Oxford Mail The Handley Page Victor was the third of the three V Bombers and the most long lasting, serving in the RAF until 1993, and still doing invaluable service in the first Iraq War. Moreover, in 1982 it was only the Victor ...

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  • NIMROD RISE AND FALL
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    NIMROD RISE AND FALL
    TONY BLACKMAN
    The episodic history of Britain's infamous military reconnaissance aircraft, by the author of Vulcan Test Pilot and aviation expert who witnessed it all. The scrapping of the Nimrod program has been one of the most controversial events in the military aviation world for many years. For most of its operational life, from 1969 to date, its contribution to the defense of the realm...

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  • VULCAN TEST PILOT
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    VULCAN TEST PILOT
    TONY BLACKMAN
    In this memoir, the author of Nimrod: Rise and Fall details his experience testing the UK's strategic bomber while flying for Avro during the Cold War. In 2007, a restored Avro Vulcan Mark 2—XH558—took to the skies to help commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Falklands conflict. To coincide with this, the memoirs of one of its test pilots, Tony Blackman, was published to gre...

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