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It started out as a book on the Sepecat Jaguar that was ment to be printed in just one copy, but it turned out as the starting point for a series of books, that will see 2 to 4 publications every year. We’re proud to present you our first two books, filled to the rim with walk-around & action photographs.

Full colour, very dynamic lay-out, filled with hundreds of new, original and high resolution photographs and up-to-date information. And, at a very competitive price:

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001: The Sepecat Jaguar 84 pages 20,00 euro 002: Lockheed-Martin F-16 108 pages 22,00 euro

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001: Sepecat Jaguar: A close up at the Jaguar, in service with the RAF, Armée de l’Air and Indian Air Force with over 250 photographs in 84 pages. Size: 240 mm x 240 mm, high quality paper. Every detail of the airframe, cockpit, maintenance and action photograpy, covering all the types, including the maritime version of the IAF Jaguar!

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Flying in Air Forces around the World

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Left: a fantastic and unusual view of the top of an Indian Air Force Jaguar IM. This maritime version of the Jaguar, with its distinctive radome, clearly shows the position of the air intakes, spine and dorsal fairing for the air conditioning system.

Right: Another great top view of a Jaguar, this time an RAF GR.Mk 3A flying trough the Mach Loop near Abergynolwyn in Wales. It shows the position of the UHF antenna on top of the dorsal fairing clearly. Notice the triangular shaped RAM air intake on the spine which leads to the Primary heat-exchanger. A close-up of this part with the covers removed, can be found on page 69. This photo provides a nice view of the weathering of the Jaguar. Even though the jet has rather small wings, it is a very manoeuvrable jet, especially at low level. It isn’t an F-16, but still it was considered an excellent weapons platform by its pilots. Ow, and talking about the F-16; it is the subject of the second book in this series... There, I said it.

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Right: a good vieuw of some of the moving parts of the main wing: to the right is the large flap in the down position and the photo on the left is trailing edge double slotted flap. Roll is being achieved by using the spoilers in front of the flaps. Norice the details of the over-wing missile pylon with a finless Sidewinder mounted on it.

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The fuel lines and tanks of the Jaguar are self-sealing and armoured in the most sensitive areas. In all, the Jaguar has an internal fuel capacity of 4,183 liters - 920 gallons - but can take up to twice 264 gallons in external fuel tanks - or an extra 2,400 liters. If a mission is even longer than the fuel capacity of the jet,it can fall back on its in flight refueling capability.

In the maintenance hanger, Graham found a Jaguar with its wing removed. The jet sports the Coltishall station crest on the air intake, “Aggressive in Defence”. Once the spine is removed, the wing can be removed in a single piece.

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The part below is the actually the inner structure of the spine of the Jaguar. Inside this

spine run the control rods and on top of it the anti-collision light and primary

heat-exchanger are located.

Above: some of the panels on the spine, underneath the dorsal fairing for the air conditioning system, are removed on this Sepecat Jaguar GR Mk.1. The jet was mainly constructed out of high strength aluminium alloy, with the exception of titanium around the engine bays. In the photo above, you can clearly see the 40-degree wing sweep.

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The Martin-Baker Mk.9 ejection seat was mainly used in the Jaguar and the Harrier. It is a zero-zero ejection seat that was introduced for the first time in the late 1960s. Initially, RAF Jaguars were equipped with the Type 9B Mk.2 - see opposite page below -but from 1986 on, the jets were re-equipped with Type 9B Mk.3 seats, recognisable by the different head rest.

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These photos show the top of the ejection seat and the canopy framing. The framing has a lot attached to it with defogging tubes, connections, and a handhold and two rear-view morrirs at the front of it. The cockpit, which is air-conditioned and pressurized, has a clamshell canopy that hinges aft, but offers not a perfect view to the rear, so those rear-view mirrors aren’t a luxury. The windscreen of the Jaguar is made of armoured glass. The cockpits of the two-seat Jaguars have glass wall seperating them, as can be seen in the photo below.

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Left: this photo shows the crew of an Indian Air Force Jaguar getting out of the office after a training mission. It also shows the Martin-Baker Type 9B Mk.2 ejection seat which can be recognized by the different style head-rest. In case of an emergency, the crew can eject by pulling the firing handle. Upon doing this, this is the sequence of events: an explosive gas system jettisons the canopy, the harness retract and the main gun of the seat fires. The seat moves up the guise rails and the emergency oxygen supply is activated. At the same moment, the equipment tubing and communication connections are automatically disconnected. This is followed by the rocket rocket pack being fired. Moments later, the pilot is safe, with his main parachute opening above him.

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Let’s have a closer look at the Jaguar pilot’s workplace, beginning with the ejection seat. Originally, the Martin-Baker JRM4 type was selected, but these were later replaced by the more capable Martin-Baker Mk. 9B by all users except for the Armée de l’Air. The photos around this text show the latest version of the ejection seat used in the Jaguar: the Martin-Baker Type 9B Mk. 3. The black cylinder in the middel of the seat is the quick release fitting with the black and yellow firing handle imediately in front of it.

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002: Lockheed-Martin F-16: A close up of all the F-16 variants in service today, from the MLU up till the F-16 E/F block 60, in service with 23 different countries! This book contains with over 350 photographs in 108 pages. Size: 240 mm x 240 mm, high quality paper.

Every detail of the airframe, cockpit, maintenance and action photograpy, covering all the types. Some photographs were taken specifically for this book by F-16 pilots !

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Above: The area between the front and main wheel bay, with the ECS and an ALQ-131 ECM pod on the centerline pylon. Below: An AAQ-14 Targeting pod is mounted on the air intake. Note the open panel above it, where the external power can be hooked up and where communications can be established between the pilot and his crew chief.

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A fantastic view of the entire underside of the F-16 showing al the panels and wheathering. Notice the oil leaks behind the main gear doors and at various other places. This Fighting Falcon is loaded with life Sidewinders and AMRAAMs, as well as chaff (silver boxes) and flares (red boxes).

A pilot is checking his Fighting Falcon before a mission. The walk-around is a final check that is done before every flight. Here, he verifies if the chaff container is filled... On the centreline, an ALQ-119/184 ECM pod is placed.

This is a close-up of the hot air exhaust of the Environmental Condition System - ECS - located on the left side of the fuselage, immediately in front of the main landing gear. The ECS regulates the heat and cooling of the cockpit, radar and avionics.

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The first F-16s for the Kingdom of Morocco are on the ferry flight towards the country. Morocco purchased 24 F-16s (Block 52 Models) from Lockheed-Martin. Airmen from the Utah, Arizona and South Carolina Air National Guard helped deliver the first fighter aircraft. Notice the antenna underneath the air intake and on the lower fuselage, below the gun nozzle.

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More views of the F-16E and F-16F on this page! The frontal view above shows the different antennas and sensors to be found on the nose and air intake of the Emirati Desert Falcon. The round sensor on top of the radome is the AN/AAQ-32 Navigation Sensor Turret, with the 4 IFF antennas behind it. The F-16E is equipped with an Active Electronically Scanned Array radar. The prominent antenna’s on either side of the air intake are the Forward Integrated Electronic Warfare System - IEWS - transmitting antenna’s, combined with the navigation lights. The aft antenna of this system can be found at the very end of the vertical tail - as can be seen in the photo above. Look at the variable area afterburner nozzle.

Left: a great shot taken of an F-16E in full afterburner, performing at the Dubai International Airshow in 2013. See the two redesigned heath exchanger exhausts in front of the main gear doors? Hot looking ride!

In 2005, the first of 12 F-16s for the Royal Air Force of Oman were delivered, capabel of being armed with HARMs, JDAM, and other weapons. These Fighting Falcons are Block 50/52 models, equipped with a General Electric F110-GE-129 or F100-PW-229. In 2011, the RAFO announced an order of 12 additional Block 50 F-16 C/Ds. The D in the photo above gives a clear view of the big spine and the General Electric engine.

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Weapons crew ensure a missile is secured on the wing tip of on an F-16 Fighting Falcon before taking off during an end of runway check at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The AIM-120 AMRAAM has a range of up to 105 km (C-model) and travels to it’s target at a speed of Mach 4. Some more interesting numbers: an AMRAAM weighs slightly more than 150 kg. and costs around $400,000 a piece.

Above: Checking the fins of an armed AIM-120 AMRAAM missile. This beyond visual range air-to-air weapon uses a two stage guidance: the Inertial Navigation System that is fed by information coming from the aircraft and the missile’s own radar so that it can lock on to the target.

This spectacular photograph, taken from a third F-16, shows a pair of Fighting Falcons of the Belgian Air Force, carrying no less than 6 AMRAAMs each, during a training mission in early 2016. Notice the different shades of grey on these widely used airframes. The Belgian Air Force has deployed their F-16s in many occasions, operating in Afghanistan, Lybia, Iraq and the Baltic States.

I almost forgot this photo! This is a close-up of the rocket nozzle of an AMRAAM air-to-air missile, ready for business. See how thin the fins on this missile are?

This F-16 from the 482nd FW is loaded with practice bombs on the mid-wing pylons. In the background, the future replacement aircraft for many Fighting Falcons can be seen: the F-35 Lightning II.

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This is the left landing gear bay in every detail, with above looking forward, and looking aft to the right. Notice the hot air exhaust of the environmental Condition System in the photo above. So close you can almost smell the oil !

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Close-ups of the right main landing gear bay. About every inch inside the gear bays is used for hydraulic lines, cables, batteries, actuators and connections. The photo to the left is looking aft, the one below is looking forward.

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Fresh out of the update but still in primer, this Portuguese F-16 A is landing at Monte Real. It is one of the aircraft that used to be operated by the USAF 704th Fighter Squadron, the “Outlaws”, as can be seen on the tail. The mid-life update incorporates many changes, like the IFF antennas in front of the canopy. Specific for the Portuguese fleet of F-16’s, is the search light on the port side of the nose.

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These photos show the cockpit of the F-16 MLU with its two colour multifunctional displays, Head Up Display and instruments. The pilot has a perfect position as close as can be, with the ejection handle of his seat immediately in front of the instrument panel. The photo to the right shows the right hand instrument console with the flight stick. The photo below shows the throttle, located on the left side of the cockpit.

The F-16 is a true pilot’s machine. He sits on top of his aircraft, has a near perfect 360° vision and everything in the cockpit has been designed in such a way that he can see and reach what he needs with ease and comfort. The ejection seat is placed at a high angle backwards ensuring that the pilot has the most comfortable position during high-G manoeuvres. The photo on this pages gives us a spectacular view of the F-16 cockpit after sundown. The pilot took it at the end of a mission over Afghanistan. These kind of missions can take hours and include several aerial refuelings. In the photo you can clearly see the information projected on the HUD - Head Up Display - and the artificial horizon repeated 4 times on the HUD and instruments below it. The jet is flying at an altitude of over 24.000 feet at a speed of 370 knots, heading vector 319. Between the two colour multifunctional displays is the integrated Control Panel. The two dials below are the Airspeed Indicator to the left and the Altimeter to the right. Below are from left to right the AOA Indicator, the Attitude Indicator and the Vertical Velocity Indicator. The four dials one above the other to the right of the right MFD are the Oil Pressure Indicator, the NOZ POS Indicator, the RPM dial and the FTIT Indicator. The the right of his leg, the Caution Light Panel is clear. Looks like a smooth ride back to base!

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Flyin’ the Viper

For many young men and women, flying the Viper is the ultimate dream. When they succeed the intense training involved, they can take the stick and throttle of the supersonic jet placed in an ergonomically designed cockpit. On these pages, we show you this cockpit in every detail, single- and double seat.

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