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• The horse of Phaëthon - Memories of the Gloster Meteor in the Netherlands

  
  Aart van Wijk

  2012

  Dutch/English

  

  416 pg.
  Review written by: Max Heldring

  Buy via www.elikser.nl. As a 7 year old boy I stood, with open mouth, watching to the first demonstration flight of Jan Flinterman in a Meteor Mk. 4 above the ice club terrain near Amsterdam, the nowadays Buitenveldert. At present, more than 50 years later, I read the from the Dutch translated book The horse […]

• All horses of Apollo - A history of the Dutch Gloster Meteors

  
  Aart van Wijk

  2012

  English

  

  384 pg.

  978-90-79058-02-0

  In my hunt for excellent books at the aviation firmament I ran into this book and this specimen really deserves a honourable mention. And to top it all, the book is even a Dutch product. Whilst about everyone in 2013 is minding the JSF and the F-16 and some persons perhaps still staying behind at […]

• Blackbirds

  
  Garry Ryan

  2012

  English

  

  225 pg.
  Review written by: Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

  Blackbirds is the first in Canadian author Garry Ryan’s series of novels about 18-year-old Sharon Lacey, who goes to England in May 1940 in search of her estranged father. Lacey, who had been taught to fly in the wide open skies of the Alberta prairies, is quickly recruited into the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) to […]

• Meer verhaaltjes? Heb je nog even….

  
  Jan Algera

  2013

  Dutch

  

  228 pg.

  Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

• The Ice Pilots

  
  Michael Vlessides

  2012

  English

  

  271 pg.
  Review written by: Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

  Since the television series Ice Pilots, NWT debuted in 2008, thousands of devoted fans have tuned in weekly to watch the Buffalo Airways team keep vintage aircraft like Douglas DC-3 Dakotas, DC-4s, and Curtiss C-46 Commandos flying in Canada’s North. Viewers are equally riveted by the show’s “characters”: the McBryan family, headed by no-nonsense “Buffalo” […]

• Surviving trainer & transport aircraft of the world

  
  Don Berliner

  2013

  English

  

  185 pg.

  This book is the third lovely book of a series of three books that in total describe more than 300 airplane types that have survived the Second World War Funny is that on the book cover it says that this book describes the ‘less-glamorous’ airplanes. I do not agree with that! What for instance to […]

• Luck of a Lancaster

  
  Gordon Thorburn

  2013

  English

  

  200 pg.

  Where to start with a review about this book? No idea actually, but I will just begin at the bar, were Sticky Lewis-Sgt William Charles Lewis was found a lot in ’43 to – as I assume – cope with everything the experiences as flight engineer on the Lancaster’s he flew. At that bar it […]

• For the love of Flying: the story of Laurentian Air Services

  
  Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

  2009

  English

  

  224 pg.

  How often does it occur that a historical researcher dives deep into the history of a beautiful nostalgic aviation company? Not so very often I believe, DHC-2 but this is in any way a  very successful attempt of the Canadian Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail. The combination of researcher, writer en specifically this aviation company (that unfortunately doesn’t […]

• Een Texelse luchtvaartgeschiedenis

  
  Jan Willem de Wijn

  2012

  Dutch

  

  148 pg.

  Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

• Out of the blue

  
  Halldale Media Group

  2011

  English

  

  246 pg.

  There are 100,000 books called ‘Out of the Blue’, but I felt drawn to this particular one and I absolutely had to have it. For 3 reasons: first of all the deep blue cover of the book reminded me of my beloved 2001 midnight blue Saab 93; secondly in honour of my youthful past during […]