Air Combat

"Eloquent… An uplifting, heart-rending, and terrifyingly real account of frontline air combat. A first-rate military memoir." – David Eastman, US Army retired and author. In this true story, Robert Stanek delivers a raw and unforgettable narrative, revealing what it’s like to be in war waged from the skies above. Day by day, step by step, he brings readers into the secretive world of combat fliers, and tells the story of the men and women who flew dangerous combat missions during the largest air war of the 20th century. Experience the extraordinary events through the author’s ...

Colonel Yuri Andrenev, a respected test pilot, is trusted to evaluate the latest Soviet fighter, the Sukhoi Su27 "Flanker", from a secret test facility near Moscow. Surely he is above suspicion. With thoughts of defection in his mind, and flying close to the inner German border, could he be tempted to make a daring escape across the most heavily defended airspace in the world?

First Flight: A Tale of Bloody April, 1917 In the skies over Arras during the brutal spring of 1917, a young RFC pilot faces his first test of combat. Second Lieutenant Thomas Ashworth has only nineteen hours of flight time when he's thrust into one of the deadliest periods of aerial warfare in history - the month that would become known as "Bloody April." Under the mentorship of Flight Lieutenant Michael Harrison, an experienced ace with six victories, Thomas struggles to master his Sopwith Pup fighter in time to survive his first patrol. But when they encounter the superior German ...

En 1903 los hermanos Wright inventaron el avión y ese acontecimiento cambió las reglas de la guerra para siempre. De guerra en guerra, la tecnología ha ido mejorando en un esfuerzo por conseguir la máquina de guerra aérea definitiva. El audio libro Aviones de Combate de Pacific Media nos cuenta la historia desde la creación del avión hasta el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Flying the Jaguar bomber in a Cold War West Germany, Nick Gleason is, perhaps, at the peak of his career but he is a loner struggling with his conscience and he begins to question the morality of his role. If war in Europe breaks out, he would be tasked to deliver a thermo-nuclear weapon to a target in the East.

In 1903, the Wright brothers invented the airplane, and that event changed the rules of war forever. From war to war, technology has improved in an effort to achieve the ultimate aerial war machine. Pacific Media's Combat Aircraft tell us the history from the creation of the aero plane to the end of WWII.