Aviation history

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  • Above the Labyrinth

    Above the Labyrinth
    Michael Yeager
    Michael H. Yeager
    2014
    English
    X X X X X
    157 pg.
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This 26 chapter counting book describes the experiences of a young aviator, who wants to make his carrier in the large aviation. His father owns a charter company and FBO for planes which makes that because of this he could already obtain his aviation license in a cheap way. After having gained his license he […]

  • Trailblazer in Flight- Britain's First Female Jet Airline Captain

    Trailblazer in Flight- Britain's First Female Jet Airline Captain
    Yvonne Pope Sintes
    Pen & Sword Books
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    192 pg.
    1783462671
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This English book tells in 186 pages the story of Yvonne Pope Sintes, who became in England the first woman captain on a commercial passenger airplane. In that time – we are talking about the 50’s- it was very unusual to employ a woman in a function in the by men dominated aviation. The bigger […]

  • Eenige wakkere jongens - Nederlandse oorlogsvliegers in de Britse luchtstrijdkrachten 1940-1945

    Eenige wakkere jongens - Nederlandse oorlogsvliegers in de Britse luchtstrijdkrachten 1940-1945
    Erwin van Loo
    Boom
    2013
    Dutch
    X X X X X
    500 pg.
    9789461059260

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

  • Aces of the Reich

    Aces of the Reich
    Mike Spick
    Pen & Sword Books
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    240 pg.
    9781848327221
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    Take the book in your hands, which, by the way, is provided with a beautiful cover and then, with the book in your mind, go back to the 30’s, were it all began with the development of the German Luftwaffe. Because of the treaty of Versailles the Germans were after WO I tied with hands […]

  • Darwin Spitfires

    Darwin Spitfires
    Anthony Cooper
    Pen & Sword Books
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    516 pg.
    9781783461882
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    Many stories go around about the heroic air battles during World War II, but in this beautiful bounded book, that exist of 516 pages with a lot of great black and white pictures, specifically the air-war of the period 1941-1944 in the north-western part of Australian is described. And how! It describes every air battle […]

  • Recollections of the Great War In The Air

    Recollections of the Great War In The Air
    James McConnel
    Pen & Sword Books
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    96 pg.
    9781781592441
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    A hundred years after the outbreak of the Great War the market is being flooded with re-editions of books. Books appear and reappear, based on old letters and diaries, on par with newspaper articles and several broadcastings on the same subject. Comparing ‘One bridge to far’ to what happened back then is beyond imagination. If […]

  • Hawker VC The first RFC ACE

    Hawker VC The first RFC ACE
    Tyrrel M. Hawker MC
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    247 pg.
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

  • Naval Aviation in the Second World War

    Naval Aviation in the Second World War
    Philip Kaplan
    Pen & Sword Books
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    144 pg.

    After reading the first two chapters of Philip Kaplan’s book about Pearl Harbour and the development of the early aircraft carriers he is the one to blame for my continuous hunt of YouTube clips about the ‘War in the Pacific’. I watched 15 clips of 45 minutes in line and was totally addicted. Notwithstanding the […]

  • Ace of the Black Cross - The Memoirs of Ernst Udet

    Ace of the Black Cross - The Memoirs of Ernst Udet
    Ernst Udet
    2013
    English, German
    X X X X X
    202 pg.
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This book is about Ernst Udet, a German ace from the Great War. It is the English transcription of the original “Mein Fliegerleben”. Ernst Udet, a top-ace from the German Luftwaffe was born in 1896. Between 1914-1918 he was accounted for 62 victories in air battles while only 19 years old in 1915. That same […]

  • Happy End

    Happy End
    Dietmar Eckell
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    96 pg.

    This book had a most special cause! The writer of the book crashed a couple of years ago with a para motor (a parachute in combination with a hair-dryer) somewhere in the Mojave dessert. He had to save himself and in the end it led to an involuntarily hospital visit. He searched the internet on […]