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  • Please Wait to be seated

    Please Wait to be seated
    Martin Leeuwis
    English
    X X X X X
    978-94-90008-00-0

    Please Wait to be seated- Martin Leeuwis Publications Humor! Humor and again humor. That combined with aviation makes ‘Aviation humor’! This is an A5-sized edition of Martin Leeuwis Publications from 2011 and from the beginning to the end full of cartoons by 30 artists from around the world. Martin earlier released books with cartoons and […]

  • Spitfire-manual 1940

    Spitfire-manual 1940
    Dilip Sarkar
    Amberley Publishing
    2010
    English
    X X X X X
    288 pg.
    978-1-84868-436-2

    What is the most famous aircraft in aviation history? Many people will say ‘the Spitfire’. And who would not want to fly himself in a Spitfire?!… start for this moment with this Spitfire manual from Dilip Sarkar! Dilip Sarkar has been a Spitfire fanatic for many years and the energy which thus arose is converted […]

  • The battle of Britain / De slag om Engeland

    The battle of Britain / De slag om Engeland
    Edward Bishop
    Just Publishers
    2008
    English, Dutch
    X X X X X
    192 pg.
    978 90 77895 70 2

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

  • The Sky My Kingdom - Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot

    The Sky My Kingdom - Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot
    Hanna Reitsch
    Casemate Books
    2011
    English
    X X X X X X
    272 pg.
    978-1-932033-97-7

    It was the memorable book ‘They went into the air as angels with homesickness – nostalgia.’ From Jan Jacobs Mulder in which I read for the first time about Hanna Reitsch (see my previous book discussions). Next in another book and thus I had to know more about this woman. Who was Hanna? Hanna was […]

  • Inside the sky: A Mediation on Flight / Tussen de wolken

    Inside the sky: A Mediation on Flight / Tussen de wolken
    William Langewiesche
    2003
    Dutch, English
    X X X X X
    215 pg.
    0679429832

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

  • Guilty by association / De vliegende Hollander

    Guilty by association / De vliegende Hollander
    Rudi Dekkers
    2008
    English
    X X X X X
    272 pg.
    0982668732

    I was walking into a bookstore (enslaved as I am) looking one or more interesting books. I bought two! In this book review I will discuss one of them, ‘The Flying Dutchman’ by Rudi Dekkers. This book was published in Dutch in 2008. In the English language, he published in 2011 the book ‘Guilty by […]

  • Alles over vliegtuigen

    Alles over vliegtuigen
    Andrea Erne
    ANWB
    2004
    English, Dutch
    X X X X X
    9018019135

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

  • Flyers are liars / Vliegers zijn liegers

    Flyers are liars / Vliegers zijn liegers
    Jan Breman
    Reed Business
    2008
    English, Dutch
    X X X X X
    117 pg.
    10 9068825240

    From the warplanes of the Somme in France in WW1, we this time go to a volume with 9 stories which occured a bit later in the last century. The book is written by Jan Breman who has flown his whole life. He did it in many planes, and with this book he wants us […]

  • Battleground Europe Airfields & Airmen Somme

    Battleground Europe Airfields & Airmen Somme
    Mike O’Connor
    Pen & Sword Books Ltd
    2001
    English
    X X X X X
    160 pg.
    0 85052 864

    After reading some books related to the Falklands War about missions of the Vulcan and Harrier, I ended up via a number of books on war at Verdun and the Somme in the first world war, with this book about old aircraft flying at the Somme. Very old aircraft are not my favourite, but I […]