Disasters and accidents
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Polar Winds
Dundurn2014English
224 pg.1459723791It gives a special feeling when you are reading on the 38th degree of latitude with 35 degrees a book about aviation in the Canadian region above the 60st degree of latitude with temperatures in winter of 40 degrees Celsius below zero, a difference of 75 degrees Celsius! At least the book provides cooling with […]
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Why planes crash 2001 - A critical view on plane crashes in the 21st century
Sylvia Spruck Wrigley2013English
150 pg.UUID 6F7525Co-9255-11 E2 – 9 E 96-0800200C9A66Review written by: Max HeldringThis e-book contains 11 stories of plane crashes, described in great detail, including the communication between the pilots and traffic control. These crashes have taken place during the course of 2001. With each description of the crash also a piece of text of the original investigation report is published and it contains a link to […]
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Broken dreams - The story of a unique Dakota told by the old lady herself
Narwal Publishers2014English
120 pg.978-90-817110-5-0There was no other way it could have ended, that Friday the 13th in August 2010! After all, it was a Friday and it was the 13th. On that particular day, a C-47 was transported from the Wings of Liberation Museum in Best to Valkenburg – a former military air base in the Netherlands. The […]
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Glider pilots at Arnhem
Pen & Sword2014English
298 pg.9781473822795Review written by: Joris GonggrijpIn a nutshell: on the 17th of September 1944, 11.500 men from the 1st Airborne Division, including the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade landed across the north bank at the Rijn by Arnhem to occupy ‘the bridge’. On the 25th of September, 2.500 men were taken back with boats to the south bank of the […]
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Jetblast
Tate Publishing2014English
348 pg.Review written by: Max HeldringThis book is written by Stephen Carbone, who has worked for more than 30 years in the aviation industry. First he did this as specialist in aviation security systems, but later as researcher at the NTSB and as safety inspector at the FAA. And this you can see in the book, with as storyline a […]
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Above the Labyrinth
Michael H. Yeager2014English
157 pg.Review written by: Max HeldringThis 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 […]
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Legacy of the Lancasters
Pen & Sword Books2013English
256 pg.978 1 78303 007 1Review written by: Nico MulderThe delicious cover of the book – the front sight of a hit Lancaster above one of the German dams, with the engine on fire – did smile to me, but i did let the book lie for a while. I thought it was another one of those impermeable books with the developments of the […]
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Happy End
2013English
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 […]
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All horses of Apollo - A history of the Dutch Gloster Meteors
2012English
384 pg.978-90-79058-02-0In my hunt for excellent books at the aviation firmament I ran into this book and this specimen really deserves a honourable mention. And to top it all, the book is even a Dutch product. Whilst about everyone in 2013 is minding the JSF and the F-16 and some persons perhaps still staying behind at […]
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Eagles in the flesh
2012English
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 […]