Aviation history

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  • For the love of Flying: the story of Laurentian Air Services

    For the love of Flying: the story of Laurentian Air Services
    Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
    2009
    English
    X X X X X
    224 pg.

    How often does it occur that a historical researcher dives deep into the history of a beautiful nostalgic aviation company? Not so very often I believe, DHC-2 but this is in any way a  very successful attempt of the Canadian Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail. The combination of researcher, writer en specifically this aviation company (that unfortunately doesn’t […]

  • Een Texelse luchtvaartgeschiedenis

    Een Texelse luchtvaartgeschiedenis
    Jan Willem de Wijn
    2012
    Dutch
    X X X X X
    148 pg.

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

  • Out of the blue

    Out of the blue
    Halldale Media Group
    2011
    English
    X X X X X
    246 pg.

    There are 100,000 books called ‘Out of the Blue’, but I felt drawn to this particular one and I absolutely had to have it. For 3 reasons: first of all the deep blue cover of the book reminded me of my beloved 2001 midnight blue Saab 93; secondly in honour of my youthful past during […]

  • Flight

    Flight
    Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
    2008
    English, Dutch and other
    X X X X X
    64 pg.
    978 90 257 4598 1

    I picked up this little jewel in the children’s section of a book store, on a shelf labeled “8 years upwards”. Well, I would love to be 8 all over again, because this is a beautiful book. Over the course of 50 pages or so, it deals with the basic principles of flying, outlines the […]

  • Van Pioniers tot professionals

    Van Pioniers tot professionals
    Corstiaan Prince & Gijs Dragt
    2012
    Dutch
    X X X X X
    111 pg.

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

  • Imperial Outpost in the Gulf

    Imperial Outpost in the Gulf
    Nicholas Stanley-Price
    2012
    English
    X X X X X
    238 pg.

    After having reviewed ‘History in the Arab Skies’ by Gerald Butt, quite by chance I came across this little gem of a book about Sharjah airfield, close to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Its author, Nicholas Stanley-Price, was the cultural heritage advisor to the Sharjah Museums Department in the UAE from 2007 to […]

  • The spectacle of flight

    The spectacle of flight
    Robert Wohl
    2005
    English
    X X X X X
    323 pg.
    0-300-10692-0

    Never 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 […]

  • Heroes and landmarks of British aviation

    Heroes and landmarks of British aviation
    Richard Edwards & Peter J. Edwards
    2012
    English
    X X X X X
    257 pg.
    978-1-84884-645-6

    My interest in British aviation dates from a good 25 years ago when, as a boy I was regularly to be found, practically glued to the perimeter fence of RAF Wildenrath in Germany, jotting down airplane numbers. I’ve fished out the notebook I used at the time. Thumbing through it I see among the entries […]

  • Luchtmeisjes

    Luchtmeisjes
    Ingrid Van Der Chijs
    2012
    Dutch
    X X X X X
    295 pg.
    978 90 388 9434 8

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

  • 100 jaar vliegen voorbij

    100 jaar vliegen voorbij
    Arie de Bruin
    Kosmos Uitgevers
    2008
    Dutch
    X X X X X X
    430 pg.

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.