From their modest origins with BE.2c and Vickers Victoria biplanes delivering food and ammunition in the Mesopotamian deserts to the massive "Globemasters" delivering hardware in the same theatre a century later, transport aircraft have played a key role in Britains wars. It was the Cold War that saw transport aircraft become necessary war-fighting equipment. When the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq began, the RAFs transport fleet was ready, and with the new model "Hercules", and the Airbus "Voyager" and "Atlas", Britains armed forces have a transport force second to none.
With over 130 photographs, this book describes the evolution of the aircraft that provided the airlift capacity for Britains armed forces wherever they served, and as the 2021 Operation "Pitting" showed, transport aircraft are still vital.
