Here you can find all the book reviews in alphabetical order.
Books A-Z
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Contrails
2012English
336 pg.978-1479298839Contrails by Robert Anderson is the first piece of aviation fiction I have ever reviewed. It is an entertaining and funny novel which drew me in from the start. I found I couldn’t put down because I was so curious as to how the principal character, Sam Claymore, would end up. Sam is a pilot […]
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Baling Out
Pen & Sword Books Ltd2006English
192 pg.978 1 84415 347 3It’s as if the devil is playing with it, but even now when I ‘just’ pulled ‘an-nice-looking-book’ off the bookshelf somewhere, it again appears to be …..is another great book. Maybe you think I am having shares of this publisher, but that’s not the fact I can assure you! This book is about the development […]
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MESSERSCHMITT BF109
Pen & Sword Books2018English
80 pg.9781526710536Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp223rd Review MESSERSCHMITT BF109 Flight Craft 14 – Robert Jackson Robert Jackson aims with this book(et) on two target groups: 1) lovers of the BF109 history and 2) model builders. In a lot of circumstances these two target groups do converge. To each target group exactly half of the book is dedicated: 40 pages. My […]
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Chickenhawk
Penguin Books1984English
399 pg.0-552-12419-2We are transported back in time to the mid-sixties. For a twenty-year period between 1955 and 1975 war raged in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The plot revolves around the fact that a number of countries, including the US, considered that the communists were becoming far too powerful in the region and that something had to […]
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RA-5C Vigilante Units in Combat
Osprey Publishing2010English
96 pg.978-1-84176-749-9Review written by: Pedro Blas GonzalezReview- RA-5C Vigilante Units in Combat – Robert R. “Boom” Powell The North American Aviation RA-5C Vigilante is the kind of airplane that deserves to be written about based just on its aesthetic properties. This is a beautiful airplane. With its cutting-edge and supersonic aerodynamics, the profile of the well-balanced and symmetrical RA-5C looks like […]
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The spectacle of flight
2005English
323 pg.0-300-10692-0Never 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 […]
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Curtiss 18T Wasp (Pioneros de la aviación boliviana 1920-1924 nº 1)
2020Spanish
104 pg.ASIN : B087CCDF7VReview written by: Joris GonggrijpMr. Subauste Perez did in depth research on the roots of Bolivian aviation. Virtually every aspect is covered by this series of books of which the story of the Curtiss 18T Wasp (T for Triplane) is the first. This book covers the origin of this aircraft, its history in a general context, the Bolivian connection, a thorough technical description of the airframe and engine, and as a background the socio-political situation of contemporary Bolivia. It also puts Bolivia in the general history of the surrounding South American countries.
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Bleriot-SPAD S.XX y S.34 (Pioneros de la Aviacion Boliviana 1920 - 1924)
Spanish
ISBN 978-9917-0-3373-8Mr. Subauste Perez did in depth research on the roots of Bolivian aviation. Virtually every aspect is covered by this series of books of which the story of the Bleriot-SPAD S.XX and S.34 is the second. This book covers the origin of these aircraft, their history in a general context, the Bolivian connection, a thorough technical description of their airframes and engines, and as a background the socio-political situation of contemporary Bolivia. It also puts Bolivia in the general history of the surrounding South American countries.
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FIAT (S.I.A.) R.2 (Pioneros de la Aviacion Boliviana 1920 - 1924)
Spanish
ISBN 978-9917-0-3372-1Review written by: Joris GonggrijpMr. Subauste Perez did in depth research on the roots of Bolivian aviation. Virtually every aspect is covered by this series of books of which the story of the FIAT (S.I.A) R.2 is the third. This book covers the origin of these aircraft, their history in a general context, the Bolivian connection, a thorough technical description of their airframes and engines, and as a background the socio-political situation of contemporary Bolivia. It also puts Bolivia in the general history of the surrounding South American countries.
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Modern South Korean Air Power- The Republic of Korea Air Force Today
Harpia Publishing Verlags GmbH2021English
256 pg.978-1-950394-07-4Review written by: Rene Verjans290th Review Modern South Korean Air Power- The Republic of Korea Air Force Today- Robin Polderman A perfect book for on the shelves of the MOD’s of North Korea, Japan, China and Russia! 256 pages full with good information about the air power of South Korea. In the meantime I do know this series of […]