Book Reviews

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  • Aviation secrets

    Aviation secrets
    Matt Johnson
    Smashwords ebooks
    2016
    English
    X X X X X
    9781370901081
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This e-book that I bought for $ 0,99 ( a bargain) contains 168 pages with facts about commercial aviation. It shows only one drawing explaining how gravity and lift makes a plane fly. On each page there is a short story or an event experienced by a crew member and there are also simple technical […]

  • The Panavia Tornado: A Photographic Tribute

    The Panavia Tornado: A Photographic Tribute
    Michael Leek
    Pen and Sword Books
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    245 pg.
    9781781592977
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This photobook with in total 245 pages contains 229 pages with photographs of the historical backbone of the RAF that entered service in 1981 and at this very moment is still flying in one remaining squadron, namely the Panavia Tornado. The Tornado was also operated in different executions by the German, Italian and Saudi Arabic […]

  • Average A Training Diary

    Average A Training Diary
    Trevor Edwards
    EDD Industries
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    190 pg.
    978-0-9932785-0-1
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    After an intensive pilot training of 3 years in the RAF the author is stationed as a fighter pilot in an operational squadron. About this training period and the first year with the 54th squadron of the RAF as a fighter pilot on the Sepecat Jaguar the author wrote a diary with the most important […]

  • Wings: Typhoon

    Wings: Typhoon
    Tom Palmer and illustrated by David Shephard
    Barrington Stoke
    2016
    English
    X X X X X
    105 pg.
    978-1-78112-537-3

    My daughter had books to read from school, so I made time to read this children book myself…. Two sisters, Maddie and Jess, play soccer on the last day of a summer soccer camp. Jess can easily shoot at goal but is totally distracted by an after burner of a Typhoon from the base nearby […]

  • Bob Schreiner 1915-1994 Luchtvaartpionier

    Bob Schreiner 1915-1994 Luchtvaartpionier
    Arnoud Schreiner
    Arnoud Schreiner
    2016
    Dutch
    X X X X X
    216 pg.
    978-90-824919-0-6
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

  • An Aviatior’s Journey- Tales of a Corporate Pilot

    An Aviatior’s Journey- Tales of a Corporate Pilot
    Ivan Luciani
    CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    348 pg.
    978 1515305835
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    The author Ivan Luciani wanted to show his readers by writing an amount of short stories how life of a corporate pilot flying business jets looks like. After a short review of his pilot training, before becoming a professional pilot, he decides that corporate flying is what he wants and he writes what his goals […]

  • Ik kan Vliegen

    Ik kan Vliegen
    Jeroen Komen
    http://www.aerialmediacom.nl
    2016
    Dutch
    X X X X X
    143 pg.
    978-94-026-0151-0

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

  • Juliett Bravo Bravo

    Juliett Bravo Bravo
    René Silbermann
    Zebra
    2016
    Dutch
    X X X X X
    176 pg.
    -

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

  • Defector (Phantom Air Combat Book 1)

    Defector (Phantom Air Combat Book 1)
    David Gledhill
    DeeGee Media
    213
    English
    X X X X X
    345 pg.
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    The story in this book is happening during the Cold War in the eighties when low flying Phantoms of the RAF were cruising the West German airspace. It is an aviation thriller in which a Phantom crew and a defected Sovjet test pilot fill up the leading role. Most aviation books I read are nonfiction […]

  • Review A Soul in the Wires Book 2: The Hollywood Years

    Review A Soul in the Wires Book 2: The Hollywood Years
    Walter Leigh
    Amazon Digital Services LLC
    2016
    English
    X X X X X
    267 pg.
    978-94-92-269112
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    Jonathan Price, a traumatized World War I pilot returns from the horror in France and tries to start a life at his parent’s ranch in Nebraska. Restless and looking for ‘more’ in life, together with his young wife Peggy he picks up the dream of aviation barnstormers. They fly all over the Mid-West of the […]