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From Stearmans to Starfighters: A Pilot's Memoir Paperback
Tree of Life Memoirs2014English
152 pg.0615982360Review written by: Max HeldringThis 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 […]
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Pilots Notes for Seafire XV & XVII
Air data Publications1946English
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 […]
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Soviet Spyplanes of the Cold War
Pen & Sword Books2013English
96 pg.ISBN-10: 1781592853Review written by: Joris GonggrijpThis large book gave me for the first time insight information about the Soviet’s involvement in and around Israel during the period of just after the 6-day war (initiative Israel) and the Yom Kippur war (initiative Egypt and Syria). Surprisingly detailed the operational dedication of the MIG-25R (reconnaissance) under real war circumstances is explained, even […]
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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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Trailblazer in Flight- Britain's First Female Jet Airline Captain
Pen & Sword Books2013English
192 pg.1783462671Review written by: Max HeldringThis English book tells in 186 pages the story of Yvonne Pope Sintes, who became in England the first woman captain on a commercial passenger airplane. In that time – we are talking about the 50’s- it was very unusual to employ a woman in a function in the by men dominated aviation. The bigger […]
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Eenige wakkere jongens - Nederlandse oorlogsvliegers in de Britse luchtstrijdkrachten 1940-1945
Boom2013Dutch
500 pg.9789461059260Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.
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Aces of the Reich
Pen & Sword Books2013English
240 pg.9781848327221Review written by: Max HeldringTake the book in your hands, which, by the way, is provided with a beautiful cover and then, with the book in your mind, go back to the 30’s, were it all began with the development of the German Luftwaffe. Because of the treaty of Versailles the Germans were after WO I tied with hands […]
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Darwin Spitfires
Pen & Sword Books2013English
516 pg.9781783461882Review written by: Max HeldringMany stories go around about the heroic air battles during World War II, but in this beautiful bounded book, that exist of 516 pages with a lot of great black and white pictures, specifically the air-war of the period 1941-1944 in the north-western part of Australian is described. And how! It describes every air battle […]
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Recollections of the Great War In The Air
Pen & Sword Books2013English
96 pg.9781781592441Review written by: Joris GonggrijpA hundred years after the outbreak of the Great War the market is being flooded with re-editions of books. Books appear and reappear, based on old letters and diaries, on par with newspaper articles and several broadcastings on the same subject. Comparing ‘One bridge to far’ to what happened back then is beyond imagination. If […]
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Hawker VC The first RFC ACE
2013English
247 pg.Review written by: Joris GonggrijpSorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.