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Flying Conquistadors
North Loop Books2017English468 pg.ISBN-10: 1635053765 ISBN-13: 978-1635053760Review written by: Max HeldringFlying Conquistadors! …The adventures of Oliver Wheelock in this reading work of fiction are situated in the beginning of the 1930’s, the years in which aviation started to become professional. Oliver starts his working career as a youngster with Pan American working from an airport in the south of Florida in the first year of […]
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African MiGs Volume 1 and 2
Harpia Publishing L.L.C.2010English256 pg.978-0-9825539-8-5Review written by: Rene VerjansSpecial books they are these 2 volumes about a large group of countries in the continent Africa and then especially in –what the writers call- the ‘Sub-Sahara’. Not that I normally am so interested in the air forces of African counties, but I was simply curious about these air forces of which you seldom hear, because […]
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Flight: 100 Years of Aviation
DK Publishing2009EnglishB00J5SZF8A/ B014S40UQMReview written by: Pedro Blas GonzalezThe pilot slowly brings the aircraft to the beginning of the runway. I look around the cabin and notice many passengers asleep. They have been sleeping since shortly after boarding. In this regard, I am of one mind with the stoic philosopher, Marcus Aurelius, when the venerable ancient Greek thinker writes, “Thus to a man […]
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Phantom in the Cold War-RAF Wildenrath 1977 - 1992
Pen & Sword Books2017English271 pg.9781526704085Review written by: René VerjansSomewhere around my 14th birthday my dad told me that, approximately 40kms from our home in The Netherlands, there was a British Military airport on German soil, near the border; RAF Wildenrath. He better had not told me so! In about 3 years I have visited probably 40 times and that is where my love […]
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The Shepherd
Hutchinson1976English670-63969-9Review written by: Pedro Blas GonzalezFrederick Forsyth’s The Shepherd is a novella of man’s instinct for survival. The tale may appear simple, but is actually multi-layered. The account of a pilot who flies a De Havilland Vampire DH100 and becomes lost in disorienting fog, after losing the compass and other instruments due to an electrical failure, turns out to be […]
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Coming down in the drink
Pen and Sword books2017English190 pg.9781473891531Review written by: Max HeldringMany books have been written about the second WW and especially bomber command. In this particular book we follow the training and posting at an active squadron of Bomber Command during the war of air gunner/wireless operator John Brennan. At first he was posted as crew member on a Wellington twin engine bomber in the Middle […]
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Douglas DC-9/MD-80 - At the Gate No. 1
Squadron/Signal Publications2007English80 pg.ISBN-10: 089747516X ISBN-13: 978-0897475167Review written by: Pedro Blas GonzalezWith the passage of time, the reliable Douglas DC-9 has proven to be a venerable aircraft. In a milieu when machines are readily discarded, often on the fickle whim of passing fads, the DC-9 is still flying. Douglas DC-9/MD-80 is a very good visual portrayal of the different series of the Douglas DC-9. The book […]
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Fighters over the fleet- Naval Air Defence from Biplanes to the Cold War
Seaforth Publishing2016English460 pg.9781848324046Review written by: Rene VerjansYou have books and you have books! This is a BOOK! More than 450 pages with literally everything that concerns aviation at sea. This book from Norman Friedman tells concrete about the development of fighter planes and aircraft carriers from the English Royal Navy, the US Navy and the ‘Imperial Japanese Navy’ from the 20ies […]
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The Boeing 787: Dreamliner
Schiffer Publishing Ltd2014English152 pg.ISBN-10: 0764346377 ISBN-13: 978-0764346378Review written by: Pedro Blas GonzalezBesides flying, being around airplanes, and airplane watching and identification, nothing gives aviation enthusiasts greater pleasure than reading about airplanes and aviation history. Aviation enthusiasts are engaged historians of flight and the technology that has made flight possible. In many ways, the history of aviation is as intellectual as it is visual. From the beginning […]
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Airliner Down
John Etzil2017English352 pg.ASIN: B06XQ4QS5W/ISBN-10: 1521016828 ISBN-13/ 978-1521016824Review written by: Max HeldringNearly all the books I read about aviation are nonfiction. They are about history (mostly second world war), autobiographies or personal flying stories. This (e-)book is a fiction story about the crash of an airliner and the events that lead to that crash. Whether the author is a pilot himself I don’t know but the technical aspects […]