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• From Stearmans to Starfighters: A Pilot's Memoir Paperback

  
  William H Pickron Jr (Author), Patricia D West

  Tree of Life Memoirs

  2014

  English

  

  152 pg.

  0615982360
  Review written by: Max Heldring

  This book describes the military and civil carrier of William H. Pickron Jr., as an aviator, written by his daughter Patricia West. When William Prickon’s health at the end of 2012 diminished, he decided, after endless pressure from his family, to put onto paper his carrier as jet pilot at USAF and later as private […]

• Meer verhaaltjes? Heb je nog even….

  
  Jan Algera

  2013

  Dutch

  

  228 pg.

  Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

• Eagles in the flesh

  
  Erik B. Kaye

  2012

  English

  

  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

  
  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 […]

• The last bush pilots

  
  Eric Auxier

  2012

  English

  

  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

  
  Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

  2008

  English, Dutch and other

  

  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

  
  Robert Wohl

  2005

  English

  

  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

  
  Richard Edwards & Peter J. Edwards

  2012

  English

  

  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

  
  Arie de Bruin

  Kosmos Uitgevers

  2008

  Dutch

  

  430 pg.

  Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

• Piloot van goed en kwaad

  
  Joost Conijn

  Bezige Bij

  2012

  Dutch

  

  207 pg.

  978 90 234 7442 5

  Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.