{"product_id":"guideline-airlift-force-raf-transport-command-1948-1967","title":"Guideline Airlift Force: RAF Transport Command 1948-1967","description":"Airlift Force RAF Transport Command 1948-1967 By Colin Ovens Consider, for a moment, these three Royal Air Force Command titles:- \"Royal Air Force Bomber Command\"- a name that, for many, may generate imposing images of Wellingtons, Halifaxs, Stirlings, Lancasters, Mosquitos, Lincolns, BAC\/EE Canberra s, and the V-Bombers; \"Royal Air Force Fighter Command\"- a Command title that readily conjures up exciting images of Hurricanes, Spitfires, Tempests, Meteors, Vampires, Hunters, and Lightnings; \"Royal Air Force Coastal Command\"- a renowned name that may prompt dramatic over-water images of Sunderlands, Beaufighters, Mosquitos, Catalinas, Liberators, and Shackletons. Now, consider the title \"Royal Air Force Transport Command\"... t o many readers this may prompt images of huge formations of Dakotas, disgorging paratroops over Normandy, Arnhem, or the Rhine; others will have a recollection of the Berlin Airlift. On the other hand, many of us will recall seeing, and ignoring, the occasional Argosy, Beverley, Bristol Britannia , Hastings, Comet, or, perhaps, a VC-10, in the static park at a Battle of Britain Open Day, while they aimed their cameras at the Hunters, Gloster Javelins, Lightnings, V-Bombers, or Shackletons on show- these were the exciting defenders of these isles; and those others..? \"They're just superannuated airliners\", as a school-friend airily dismissed Transport Command's contribution to a Battle of Britain Open Day, at RAF Biggin Hill in the mid-1960s, when we two were teenagers. 92 pages perfect bound","brand":"Guideline Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53773416792401,"sku":"GP565310","price":20.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0865\/4992\/2129\/files\/GP565310.jpg?v=1778716590","url":"https:\/\/www.jadlamracingmodels.com\/products\/guideline-airlift-force-raf-transport-command-1948-1967","provider":"Jadlam Toys \u0026 Models","version":"1.0","type":"link"}