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  • The Aviation Pioneers of McCook Field

    The Aviation Pioneers of McCook Field
    Jerry Koszyk
    Shiffer Publishing
    2022
    English
    X X X X X
    185 pg.
    Jerry Koszyk
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    Jerry Koszyk is an amateur aviation researcher who by chance discovered that way back in 1917 the then fledgling Army Air Service had set up an airfield for aeronatical research and development.at Dayton, Ohio, called McCook Field, where commercial, civilian, aerobatic and military aviation merged. He also discovered that no book or other publication about […]

  • From Stearmans to Starfighters: A Pilot's Memoir Paperback

    From Stearmans to Starfighters: A Pilot's Memoir Paperback
    William H Pickron Jr (Author), Patricia D West
    Tree of Life Memoirs
    2014
    English
    X X X X X
    152 pg.
    0615982360
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This book describes the military and civil carrier of William H. Pickron Jr., as an aviator, written by his daughter Patricia West. When William Prickon’s health at the end of 2012 diminished, he decided, after endless pressure from his family, to put onto paper his carrier as jet pilot at USAF and later as private […]

  • All horses of Apollo - A history of the Dutch Gloster Meteors

    All horses of Apollo - A history of the Dutch Gloster Meteors
    Aart van Wijk
    2012
    English
    X X X X X
    384 pg.
    978-90-79058-02-0

    In 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 […]

  • The horse of Phaëthon - Memories of the Gloster Meteor in the Netherlands

    The horse of Phaëthon - Memories of the Gloster Meteor in the Netherlands
    Aart van Wijk
    2012
    Dutch/English
    X X X X X
    416 pg.
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    Buy via www.elikser.nl. As a 7 year old boy I stood, with open mouth, watching to the first demonstration flight of Jan Flinterman in a Meteor Mk. 4 above the ice club terrain near Amsterdam, the nowadays Buitenveldert. At present, more than 50 years later, I read the from the Dutch translated book The horse […]

  • Pilots Notes for Seafire XV & XVII

    Pilots Notes for Seafire XV & XVII
    Air data Publications
    Air data Publications
    1946
    English
    X X X X X
    40 pg.
    -

    Still, very nice to have in your hands! Lately I was in the beautiful RAF museum in London where I bought this little book. It is a copy of the manual that the World War II pilots got by their instruction. It counts 40 pages and a few enclosures. Really everything is in it; from […]

  • RAF Bomber Command Striking Back: Operations of a Halifax Crew

    RAF Bomber Command Striking Back: Operations of a Halifax Crew
    Alan Measures
    Whittles Publishing
    2021
    English
    X X X X X
    224 pg.
    ISBN-10 : 1849954569 ISBN-13 : 978-1849954563
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    278th Review RAF Bomber Command Striking Back: Operations of a Halifax Crew- Alan Measures The experiences of the Halifax crew members of the 102 Squadron This book tells the story of RAF Bomber Command through the experiences of the crewmembers of the 102 Squadron. It teaches us the strategic planning and the night by night […]

  • The Dam buster Raid

    The Dam buster Raid
    Alan W. Cooper
    Pen & Sword Books Ltd
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    216 pg.
    978-1-78159-474-2
    Review written by: Nico Mulder

    70 years after the event, the attack on the dams in the Ruhr area still speaks till the imagination. In 216 pages the writer tells how the new formed 617-squadron under the command of Guy Gibson is trained to try to bring the war to an end, with a specific for this purpose developed ‘bounce’-bomb. […]

  • EAGLES OVER HUSKY. THE ALLIED AIR FORCES IN THE SICILIAN CAMPAIGN, 14 MAY TO 17 AUGUST 1943

    EAGLES OVER HUSKY. THE ALLIED AIR FORCES IN THE SICILIAN CAMPAIGN, 14 MAY TO 17 AUGUST 1943
    Alexander Fitzgerald-Black
    Helion & Company Ltd
    2018
    English
    X X X X X
    192 pg.
    978-1-9122174-94-2
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    Operation Husky was the title for the first joint executed British-American landing operation, at which the navy, aviation and land forces of both countries cooperated. In short: the word ‘us’ had to be replaced by ‘we’. A joint commando and cooperative army forces were then not yet that obvious. You do not become a general […]

  • The BULGARIAN AIR FORCE in the Second World War

    The BULGARIAN AIR FORCE in the Second World War
    Alexander Mladenov, Evgeni Andonov and Krassimir Grozev
    Helion & Company Ltd.
    2018
    English
    X X X X X
    136 pg.
    978-1-912390-64-9
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    230th Review The BULGARIAN AIR FORCE in the Second World War-Alexander Mladenov, Evgeni Andonov and Krassimir Grozev This book tells the story of a country on the Balkan (Bulgaria) which in WO II could not do much else than to stay out of the way of the Wehrmacht and later the Red Army. In the […]

  • Alles over vliegtuigen

    Alles over vliegtuigen
    Andrea Erne
    ANWB
    2004
    English, Dutch
    X X X X X
    9018019135

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.