AviationBookReviews.Com

Where the best aviation books come to life!

Civil aviation

• 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.

• Nog een verhaaltje dan...

  
  Jan Algera

  2012

  Dutch

  

  221 pg.

  978-94-90008-10-9

  Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

• History in the Arab skies

  
  Gerald Butt

  2011

  English

  

  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 […]

• Aviation humor

  
  Ziva Bergman

  2012

  English

  

  145 pg.

  978-94-90008-07-9

  Buy?!Aviation Humor via Amazon UK? Buy?!Aviation-Humor via Amazon USA? Whether you are a man or a woman, if you have long suspected that it would be easier to live with a plane than with your spouse, here, at last, is a book which will provide you with 16 reasons why a plane is more rewarding […]

• Flight Emergency

  
  Reya Kempley

  2011

  English

  

  127 pg.

  978-0-98336-313-2

  Ever had a rough running engine? Ever made a incorrect calculation of the density altitude? Ever made a wrong decision based on interpretations of the weather forecast? What kind of reasoning and decision-making lead to a happy ending? Or is the ending not so happy? This clever book by Reya Kempley is about our “awareness” […]

• Naast de landingsbaan

  
  Rob Dragt

  Penn Communicatie

  2009

  Dutch, English

  

  144 pg.

  978-90-77948-40-8

  If you love pictures and heavy vehicles you need to ‘read’ this book! Rob Dragt has a fascination for heavy mobile equipment. Earlier he wrote books on special transportation & salvage vehicles. In this book he puts the focus on this type of equipment used to transport ‘written-off-aircraft’ and there is also focus on heavy […]

• E.L.T.A. The first aviation exhibition Amsterdam 1919

  
  Rob Mulder

  2010

  English

  

  234 pg.

  978-82-997371-1-1

  Ever heard of this exhibition?! I had not! …. What you will first notice about this book is that it is relatively large. It is printed in A4 size and of excellent quality. When I opened it for the first time I noticed that it was written in a very detail oriented manner and that […]

• Fear of landing: You fly like a woman

  
  Sylvia Spruck Wrigley

  2011

  English

  

  It becomes highly dangerous with all those women in the air! And in addition to that Sylvia Spruck Wrigleywrites she has achieved her license! Do we have to be happy with that?! I think yes! It is –also- because this female pilot can write very originally. Ms Spruck Wrigleycomes with a short ‘story’ in which […]