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• The horse of Phaëthon - Memories of the Gloster Meteor in the Netherlands

  
  Aart van Wijk

  2012

  Dutch/English

  

  416 pg.
  Review written by: Max Heldring

  Buy via www.elikser.nl. As a 7 year old boy I stood, with open mouth, watching to the first demonstration flight of Jan Flinterman in a Meteor Mk. 4 above the ice club terrain near Amsterdam, the nowadays Buitenveldert. At present, more than 50 years later, I read the from the Dutch translated book The horse […]

• The Dam buster Raid

  
  Alan W. Cooper

  Pen & Sword Books Ltd

  2013

  English

  

  216 pg.

  978-1-78159-474-2
  Review written by: Nico Mulder

  70 years after the event, the attack on the dams in the Ruhr area still speaks till the imagination. In 216 pages the writer tells how the new formed 617-squadron under the command of Guy Gibson is trained to try to bring the war to an end, with a specific for this purpose developed ‘bounce’-bomb. […]

• Blackbirds

  
  Garry Ryan

  2012

  English

  

  225 pg.
  Review written by: Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

  Blackbirds is the first in Canadian author Garry Ryan’s series of novels about 18-year-old Sharon Lacey, who goes to England in May 1940 in search of her estranged father. Lacey, who had been taught to fly in the wide open skies of the Alberta prairies, is quickly recruited into the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) to […]

• The Ice Pilots

  
  Michael Vlessides

  2012

  English

  

  271 pg.
  Review written by: Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

  Since the television series Ice Pilots, NWT debuted in 2008, thousands of devoted fans have tuned in weekly to watch the Buffalo Airways team keep vintage aircraft like Douglas DC-3 Dakotas, DC-4s, and Curtiss C-46 Commandos flying in Canada’s North. Viewers are equally riveted by the show’s “characters”: the McBryan family, headed by no-nonsense “Buffalo” […]