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 | | Midland Press: Red Star Vol.35: Tupolev Tu104 - Aeroflot's First Jetliner
The Tupolev Tu-104 ‘Camel’ was a twin-engined medium-range turbojet-powered airliner. Built following the earlier British-built Comet and Canadian Avro Jetliner, the...
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 | | American Secret Projects Fighter & Interceptors 1945-1978 (Hardback)
Throughout aviation history there have been many aircraft designs that have, for whatever reason, failed to progress beyond the drawing board. Indeed, the...
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 | | Red Star Vol.3: Polikarpov's I-16 Fighter - Its Forerunners & Progeny
Every variant of this diminutive fighter, including development aircraft and unbuilt projects, is detailed here. An account is also...
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 | | Red Star Vol.4: Early Soviet Jet Fighters - The 1940s & Early 1950s
From the early days of ramjet-assisted piston fighters and Mikoyan's I-300 the story moves on to the MiG-9. Similarly the Yak-3-Jumo was the...
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 | | Red Star Vol. 5: Yakovlev's Piston Engined Fighters
This book covers all production variants of Yak piston-engine fighters from the I-26, to the Yak-1 and 1b, the many variations of the...
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 | | Red Star Vol. 6: Polikarpov's Biplane Fighters
This book explores development from the 2I-N1 to the I-3 and I-5 which were created while their designer was in prison. These paved the way for the...
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 | | Red Star Vol.7: Tupolev Tu4 Soviet Superfortress
At the end of the Second World War three Boeing B-29s fell into Soviet hands. From these, in a remarkably short time, came the Soviet copy. This book examines...
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 | | Red Star Vol. 8: Russian's Ekranoplans, The Caspian Sea Monster & Other WIG
The Soviet Union's development of a completely new concept, that of the wing-in-ground-effect vehicle, was shrouded in secrecy due to its...
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 | | Red Star Vol.9: Tupolev Tu160 Blackjack Russian's Answer to the B1
The full story of how the Soviet Union's most potent strategic bomber was designed, built and put into operational service. Many previously unknown aspects...
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 | | Red Star Vol.10: Lavochkin's Piston Engined Fighters
Describes the establishment and first years of existence of OKB-301, detailing types from the LaGG-3 to the legendary La-5 and La-7 which gave sterling wartime service. Also...
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 | | Red Star Vol.11: Myasishchev M4 & 3M, The First Soviet Strategic Jet Bomber
The story of the Soviet Union's first intercontinental jet bomber, their answer to the Boeing B-52, which was created within the unprecedentedly short period of...
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 | | Red Star Vol.12: Antonov's Turboprop Twins AN24/26/30/32
Extensively illustrated review of this family of Soviet transports in both civil and military use. Besides the original An-24, development into the An-26 military...
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 | | Red Star Vol.13: Mikoyan's Piston-Engined Fighters
This early history of the Mikoyan OKB and the aircraft it developed starts with the I-200 of 1940, which entered limited production as the MiG-1 in the following...
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 | | Red Star Vol. 21: Antonov's Jet Twins - The An72/74 Family
A further addition to Midland's popular Red Star series is this study of the interesting short take off and landing (STOL) aircraft developed by...
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 | | Red Star Vol. 29: Kamov 27/32 Family
Since the collapse of the old Soviet system, the much greater openness in Russian society has meant that information, which until a relatively...
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 | | Red Star Vol.30: Soviet Rocket Fighters
Fighter designers had always tried to make their aircraft go faster. To achieve this some Soviet designers used liquid-propellant rocket motors. The first...
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 | | Red Star Vol.31: Tupolev Tu114 - The First Soviet Intercontinental Airliner
In the early 1950s, the Tupolev design bureau, was instructed by the Soviet government to design a civil airliner with an intercontinental range. Based upon...
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