Donald Featherstone's Air Wargames: Revised Edition -- Wargaming Aerial Warfare 1914-1975

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Donald Featherstone's book on wargaming with model planes was hugely influential when it was first published in 1966. It included many new ideas on how to recreate dog fights on the tabletop. This revised edition brings it up to date with notes on availability of models, commercial board games and includes three new sets of rules.

This was one of the three wargaming books that were instrumental in launching modern wargaming. The other two books were Donald Featherstone Naval Wargames and the original War Games. This revised edition includes chapters on:

The Model Aircraft
Methods of Using Model Aircraft in War Games
Pre-1914: Balloons and the Early Aircraft
World War I and World War II
Model Aircraft in Land War Games
Aircraft at Sea including notes on the Fletcher Pratt Rules
Air War Gaming Based on Fletcher Pratt Principles
Helicopters in War Games
Weather in Air War Games
Battle of Britain Fighter Tactics
Commercial Air War Games

It also includes three new sets of rules:

Sturmstaffel: Defending the Reich 1944 by Tim Gow
Rolling Thunder: Air combat over South-East Asia by Ian Drury
On a Wing and Prayer - Bomber Command in the Battle for the Ruhr, July 1943 by John Armatys