Books A-Z

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  • Amazing airplanes / Fantastische vliegtuigen

    Amazing airplanes / Fantastische vliegtuigen
    Gaby Goldsack
    English
    X X X X X
    978-1607101604

    When I recently walked through a bookstore with my little boy of 3 years old, I found this book; “Amazing airplanes ‘! I’ve rarely seen a book so thick with so few pages and so little weight. A nice aviation kids book! It is a book with five themes from aviation. It’s about ‘enterprising pilots’, ‘air […]

  • Blackbirds

    Blackbirds
    Garry Ryan
    2012
    English
    X X X X X
    225 pg.
    Review written by: Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

    Blackbirds is the first in Canadian author Garry Ryan’s series of novels about 18-year-old Sharon Lacey, who goes to England in May 1940 in search of her estranged father. Lacey, who had been taught to fly in the wide open skies of the Alberta prairies, is quickly recruited into the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) to […]

  • I want to fly!

    I want to fly!
    Gary Clark
    2012
    English
    X X X X X
    160 pg.

    I trust there is nobody who – like Ding Duck – has had 5,000 flying lessons and still cannot fly! This endearing book is about a sweet little duck who, despite all the necessary materials being available to him: a tower, a flight instructor, a beautiful runway, and despite his very best efforts, he just cannot […]

  • Continue to hold

    Continue to hold
    Gary Clark
    Swamp Productions /Martin Leeuwis Publication
    2021
    English
    X X X X X
    160 pg.
    978-94-90008-260
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    288th Review Continue to hold – Gary Clark This is a Funny Book! It’s all about ATC and the ATC world! And that this ATC world contains humour is well seen by this artist. The book with 160 pages is full of cartoons and other humour, all cartoons are drawn by Australian Gary Clark, whose […]

  • A-10 Thunderbolt II Units of Operation Enduring Freedom 2008-14

    A-10 Thunderbolt II Units of Operation Enduring Freedom 2008-14
    Gary Wetzel
    Osprey Publishing
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    96 pg.
    9781472805737 / 9781472805751
    Review written by: Pedro Blas Gonzalez

    A-10 Thunderbolt II Units of Operation Enduring Freedom 2008-14    Gary Wetzel’s A-10 Thunderbolt II Units of Operation Enduring Freedom 2008-14 is another of Osprey Publishing’s wonderful aviation history books. These books contain high-quality photographs and clear text, often consisting of compelling narratives from pilots. In addition, one of the great features of this book […]

  • History in the Arab skies

    History in the Arab skies
    Gerald Butt
    2011
    English
    X X X X X
    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 […]

  • Luck of a Lancaster

    Luck of a Lancaster
    Gordon Thorburn
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    200 pg.

    Where to start with a review about this book? No idea actually, but I will just begin at the bar, were Sticky Lewis-Sgt William Charles Lewis was found a lot in ’43 to – as I assume – cope with everything the experiences as flight engineer on the Lancaster’s he flew. At that bar it […]

  • The Airbus A380: A History

    The Airbus A380: A History
    Graham M. Simons
    Pen & Sword
    2014
    English
    X X X X X
    256 pg.
    9781783030415
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    When I got this book about the Airbus A380 in my hands, I noticed that it had been written by the same author as the book about the Comet: Graham M. Simons and that guarantees a book which thoroughly deepens the topic with a lot of technical details and even more beautiful pictures… I was […]

  • Colours in the Sky- The History of Autair and Court Line Aviation

    Colours in the Sky- The History of Autair and Court Line Aviation
    Graham M. Simons
    Pen & Sword Books
    2018
    English
    X X X X X
    320 pg.
    9781526725561
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    233rd Review Colours in the Sky- The History of Autair and Court Line Aviation- Graham M. Simons The history of British Autair and Courtline Aviation is recorded in this book that gives us a thorough history outlay of its activities during the years of its existence. Autair was founded in 1953 and soon afterward the […]

  • Airmen behind the medals- third volume

    Airmen behind the medals- third volume
    Graham Pichfork
    Pen and sword Books
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    233 pg.
    9781473828155

    Fine concept is there behind this book that already is the third version in a series of Graham Pitchfork. The book describes 21 stories of brave people that flew and didn’t flew in the Second World War in all kinds of missions. The medals that have been earned are shown and of course the stories […]