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Pacific Tomcat – A pictorial History of the F-14 Tomcat in the Pacific Fleet
Scramble 4 Productions, LLC2022English144 pg.979-8985799705Review written by: Rene VerjansThis time a review of a picture book. A great edition it is as well and from photographer James Geer, who is great fan of the F-14 Tomcat!
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MISSING, PRESUMED DEAD,
Fighting High Publishing2022English240 pg.ASIN : B0BGMBML86Review written by: Joris GonggrijpThis book contains several concurrent stories. The setting is the early days of the WW II advance of Imperial Japanese Forces towards Australia. At New Guinea the Aussies, before eventually receiving US support, desperately tried to keep a foothold. The only plane which had the range and bombing capacity to fly from Australia to New […]
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The Learjet History: Beginnings, Innovations and Utilization
Springer2022English389 pg.ISBN-10 : 303106030X ISBN-13 : 978-3031060304Review written by: Max HeldringThis book is a monument for the Learjet and Bill Lear written with an unbelievable amount of technical information supported by visual printed content, drawings of modifications and a great amount of photographs. A must for every LJ pilot or business pilot and their worldwide users. The authors must have worked on this for years because all technicalities are well researched and detailed described. I am sure competition must have acquired this book also. The company delivered the last Learjet in May 2021 having produced 3056 models.
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Red Dragon ‘Flankers’, China’s Prolific ‘Flanker’ Family
Harpia Publishing Verlags GmbH2022English254 pg.978-1-950394-10-4Review written by: Rene VerjansAndreas Rupprecht writes cool books! And who says Rupprecht, says China! This is the umpteenth book of him, published by Harpia Publishing. I am really very happy with this publisher and what they have published till now. On their site it states at the category ‘Strategic handbooks’, only 1 book, but, as far as I am concerned, all the books – also this one – can be stated in this category, when it concerns nowadays airforces or other flying army units. As the quality and information value can be rated as ‘good’!
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Short Finals: An Aviation Adventure. "It's Time To Fly"
Independently published2021English186 pg.979-8713651503Review written by: Max HeldringAs the author said in his preview “strap yourself in the jump seat” and let Scot Gibson (the main person in this book ) fly you around the world. And that is what this book is all about. You fly with Scot during his active career as a pilot in so many different planes and different disciplines that it also a book for non aviators who are interested in the aviation world.
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Cuban Migs- The Defenders of Castro’s Air Force
Harpia Publishing Verlags GmbH2022English144 pg.9781950394098Review written by: Rene Verjans(Nederlands) Yes! Here is another book of one of the most beautiful series that I collect! This time ‘Cuban Migs’ -and for the people that do not know the books of Harpia Publishing-; a great book that is part of a large series of books that, in the meantime, is published by them.
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England Is My Village and The World Owes Me a Living
HP Handheld Press1941English62 pg.978-1-912766-66-6Review written by: Joris GonggrijpJohn Llewelyn Rhys gained his pilot’s licence in 1934 and joined the RAF as a Reservist in the following year. He already had some writing experience and demonstrated his talent for it. He kept on flying until his untimely death in 1940 aged 29. So not much writing of this short lived pilot survived. England […]
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The Aviation Pioneers of McCook Field
Shiffer Publishing2022English185 pg.Jerry KoszykReview written by: Joris GonggrijpJerry Koszyk is an amateur aviation researcher who by chance discovered that way back in 1917 the then fledgling Army Air Service had set up an airfield for aeronatical research and development.at Dayton, Ohio, called McCook Field, where commercial, civilian, aerobatic and military aviation merged. He also discovered that no book or other publication about […]
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Langs hier, langs daar
Martin Leeuwis Publications2022Dutch192 pg.978 94 90008 277Review written by: Rene VerjansUnfortenately only in Dutch
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Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles- current Types, Ordnance and Operation
Harpia Publishing Verlags GmbH2021English184 pg.978-1-950394-05-0Review written by: Rene Verjans289th Review Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles- current Types, Ordnance and Operations- Dan Gettinger Of course, it had to happen one day; a review of a book about unmanned aircrafts. And to be honest, I resisted a bit against it, against books about this type of planes, because these planes do not reflect the romanticism that […]