Aviation history
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Flight
2008English, Dutch and other64 pg.978 90 257 4598 1I 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 […]
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Van Pioniers tot professionals
2012Dutch111 pg.Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.
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Imperial Outpost in the Gulf
2012English238 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 […]
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The spectacle of flight
2005English323 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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Heroes and landmarks of British aviation
2012English257 pg.978-1-84884-645-6My 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 […]
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Luchtmeisjes
2012Dutch295 pg.978 90 388 9434 8Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.
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100 jaar vliegen voorbij
Kosmos Uitgevers2008Dutch430 pg.Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.
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Nog een verhaaltje dan...
2012Dutch221 pg.978-94-90008-10-9Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.
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A hundred feet over hell
Motorbooks InternationalEnglish272 pg.978-0760336335The Vietnam war, which was in many ways an exceptional war – for the US, that is – ended some 40 years ago, but really good books about it continue to be published. The famous Chickenhawk by ex-UH-1 pilot Robert Mason came out in 1984. Karl Marlantes published his ‘Matterhorn’ in 2010, but we will […]
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Last of the few
2010English274 pg.9780753522271You couldn’t get closer to the Battle of Britain than this book. Max Arthur has split the air war into 6 episodes from ‘Learning to fly’ to ‘First combat’ and ‘The battle for France’ right through to the different phases of the ‘Battle of Britain’ which was largely fought over the Channel and the U.K. […]