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  • The Phantom in focus- A navigator's eye on the Britain's cold war warrior

    The Phantom in focus- A navigator's eye on the Britain's cold war warrior
    Dave Gledhill
    Fonthill
    2012
    English
    X X X X X X
    285 pg.
    ISBN10 1781554218, ISBN13 9781781554210
    Review written by: René Verjans

    This book is really like bringing the birds to the cat! About 30 years ago, in my spotting days, you could regularly find me at RAF Wildenrath, positioned in West Germany, westerly of the Ruhr area. The Lightning’s were phased out and the 19th and the 92nd squadron flew with… Phantoms! For those I developed […]

  • Classic light aircraft

    Classic light aircraft
    Ron Smith
    Shiffer Publishing ltd
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    415 pg.
    978-0-7643-4896-9
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    You must really love small aircraft an awful lot to be able to produce a book like this! More than 800 aircraft are listed in this bible of more than 400 pages thick! It is something like a Janes Defense…but then different. Not all ‘light aircraft’ are enlisted in this book, else it would be twice […]

  • Eagle in the Sky

    Eagle in the Sky
    Ran Ronen (Pekker)
    Contento De Semrik (www.Semrik.com)
    2012
    English
    X X X X X
    406 pg.
    978-965-550-148-3
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    Ran Ronen (1936)  started his career in the IAF (Israeli Air Force) in the beginning of 1954. After his basic training on the Stearman and the Harvard he started his operational training on the Spitfire, which formed the backbone of the IAF together with the Mustang fighter. After that period he followed a conversion training […]

  • World War II From Above: An Aerial View of the Global Conflict

    World War II From Above: An Aerial View of the Global Conflict
    Jeremy Harwood
    Zenit Press/ Omniboek The Netherlands
    2014
    English/ Dutch
    X X X X X
    2018 pg.
    0760345732/ Dutch Version: 9401905959
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    Jeremy Harwood has made a surveyable book about the Second World War in the air. The book is divided into five chapters that tell about the initiation of the war, the Blitzkrieg, the years after that and the end of the war. Within these chapters Harwood zooms in on the most important events that took […]

  • Tornado above the Tigris- Memoirs of a fast jet pilot

    Tornado above the Tigris- Memoirs of a fast jet pilot
    Michael Napier
    Pen and Sword Books
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    288 pg.
    9781473834132
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    Michael Napier began his carrier at the RAF in 1978 and left 13 years later as Flight Commander. The greatest part of his flying carrier he spent, after his training, as pilot off a Tornado, the tactical bomber in the ‘80ies from the British, Italian and German air force. He describes his experiences in the air […]

  • SISTERS IN ARMS: British & American Women Pilots During World War II

    SISTERS IN ARMS: British & American Women Pilots During World War II
    Helena Schrader
    Pen and sword books
    2006
    English
    X X X X X
    240 pg.
    9781844153886
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    The photo on the cover shows a very neat lady who is laughing at the photographer whilst hanging out of the left cockpit window (so, the ‘pilot in command’). That ‘in command’ flying seems a ‘piece of cake’ with that relaxed look of hers, but this book makes clear that this, especially for the American […]

  • Dogfight: The Supermarine Spitfire and the Messerschmitt Bf109

    Dogfight: The Supermarine Spitfire and the Messerschmitt Bf109
    David Owen
    Pen and Sword Books
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    370 pg.
    9781473828063
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    The title of this book suggests that it is primarily written for pilots. But if you buy the book for that, than you get it wrong. This book is the most elaborate ‘air war history book’ that I have ever laid my hands on. It starts off in the after days of WO I and […]

  • A Passion for Flying-50 years in the cockpit

    A Passion for Flying-50 years in the cockpit
    Group Captain Tom Eeles
    Pen and sword Books
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    147 pg.
    9781473845640
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    8.000 Hours of RAF flying has Tom Eeles logged as a pilot when is pensioned at an age of 55 years. In this book he describes his RAF career  that started in 1962 and ended in 1997 after which he kept flying as a reserve officer and instructor with the Cambridge University flying school. In […]

  • Why planes crash 2002- Case files 2002

    Why planes crash 2002- Case files 2002
    Sylvia Wrigley
    Sylvia Wrigley
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    161 pg.
    9781516344253
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This E-book is the follow-up to a previously published work by Sylvia Wrigley detailing both well-known and relatively unknown plane crashes during 2001. This book describes 11 accidents that occurred in 2002. Among these, the most tragic example of how badly things can go wrong, is the story of a collision between a Tupolev 154M […]

  • Review Voices in Flight: RAF Escapers and Evaders in WWII

    Review Voices in Flight: RAF Escapers and Evaders in WWII
    Martin W. Bowman
    Pen and Sword Books
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    236 pg.
    9781783831753
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    A hearty meal and a cup of coffee prior to take-off and a few hours later you find yourself stranded in enemy territory. For some an experience as shocking as this brings to light extraordinary inventiveness and perseverance in finding their way back home, as demonstrated in this book’s “travelogues”. Although the title of this […]