General Aviation

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  • Eagles in the flesh

    Eagles in the flesh
    Erik B. Kaye
    2012
    English
    X X X X X
    214 pg.

    No, no, stop! Don’t scroll down to the next review…read this one for a moment! In the past I didn’t know so well what I had to do with delta-flying. I wondered sometimes if it was something for me, but I think I lacked courage to really hang beneath a piece of fabric and sail […]

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

    For the love of Flying: the story of Laurentian Air Services
    Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
    2009
    English
    X X X X X
    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 […]

  • The last bush pilots

    The last bush pilots
    Eric Auxier
    2012
    English
    X X X X X
    111 pg.

    A humoristic original guy the writer of this book is; Eric Auxier. He nowadays flies big ones, but there was also a short period that in Alaska he flew smaller ones. This book is drenched with everything that Alaska IS: fantastic landscapes, beautiful birds, desolate landsapes, mountains, a lot of bad weather and little opportunity […]

  • Flight

    Flight
    Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
    2008
    English, Dutch and other
    X X X X X
    64 pg.
    978 90 257 4598 1

    I picked up this little jewel in the children’s section of a book store, on a shelf labeled “8 years upwards”. Well, I would love to be 8 all over again, because this is a beautiful book. Over the course of 50 pages or so, it deals with the basic principles of flying, outlines the […]

  • The spectacle of flight

    The spectacle of flight
    Robert Wohl
    2005
    English
    X X X X X
    323 pg.
    0-300-10692-0

    Never thought I would write 50 reviews about aviation books, but here it really is: my 50th review! And to think that, as a child, I hated books. I didn’t even read the bubbles in comic strips. I am humbly grateful to all those writers of beautiful books who gradually won me round! I carefully […]

  • Heroes and landmarks of British aviation

    Heroes and landmarks of British aviation
    Richard Edwards & Peter J. Edwards
    2012
    English
    X X X X X
    257 pg.
    978-1-84884-645-6

    My interest in British aviation dates from a good 25 years ago when, as a boy I was regularly to be found, practically glued to the perimeter fence of RAF Wildenrath in Germany, jotting down airplane numbers. I’ve fished out the notebook I used at the time. Thumbing through it I see among the entries […]

  • 100 jaar vliegen voorbij

    100 jaar vliegen voorbij
    Arie de Bruin
    Kosmos Uitgevers
    2008
    Dutch
    X X X X X X
    430 pg.

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Nederlands.

  • Piloot van goed en kwaad

    Piloot van goed en kwaad
    Joost Conijn
    Bezige Bij
    2012
    Dutch
    X X X X X X
    207 pg.
    978 90 234 7442 5

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Nederlands.

  • Nog een verhaaltje dan...

    Nog een verhaaltje dan...
    Jan Algera
    2012
    Dutch
    X X X X X
    221 pg.
    978-94-90008-10-9

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Nederlands.

  • History in the Arab skies

    History in the Arab skies
    Gerald Butt
    2011
    English
    X X X X X
    232 pg.
    978-9963-610-73-0

    Imagine you can teleport yourself back to the year 1922 and then imagine that you are flying over 500 miles of unending sand from Cairo to Baghdad without any landmarks to help you. Oh, yes, there are no radio beacons and you don’t have any GPS, ATC, etc. How do you do that? Simple! You […]