Disasters and accidents
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Best Food Forward
Frontline Books2017English223 pg.978 1 47389 762 5Review written by: Max HeldringFrom the stories of WW2 during the Battle of Britain the name of Douglas Bader is very well known as the ace without legs. He lost his legs in a prewar flight accident and with a lot of perseverance he became a famous fighter pilot. But there is another fighter pilot who flew without legs […]
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Coming down in the drink
Pen and Sword books2017English190 pg.9781473891531Review written by: Max HeldringMany books have been written about the second WW and especially bomber command. In this particular book we follow the training and posting at an active squadron of Bomber Command during the war of air gunner/wireless operator John Brennan. At first he was posted as crew member on a Wellington twin engine bomber in the Middle […]
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Airliner Down
John Etzil2017English352 pg.ASIN: B06XQ4QS5W/ISBN-10: 1521016828 ISBN-13/ 978-1521016824Review written by: Max HeldringNearly all the books I read about aviation are nonfiction. They are about history (mostly second world war), autobiographies or personal flying stories. This (e-)book is a fiction story about the crash of an airliner and the events that lead to that crash. Whether the author is a pilot himself I don’t know but the technical aspects […]
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Aviation secrets
Smashwords ebooks2016English9781370901081Review written by: Max HeldringThis e-book that I bought for $ 0,99 ( a bargain) contains 168 pages with facts about commercial aviation. It shows only one drawing explaining how gravity and lift makes a plane fly. On each page there is a short story or an event experienced by a crew member and there are also simple technical […]
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A Fighter Command Station at War
Pen and Sword Books2015English214 pg.9781473844681Nice book this is! It immediately draws the attention through her handy size with a Spitfire, in colour, on the front page. The book is a picture report of the RAF Westhampnett from the time of the Battle of Britain (from the 10th of July 1940 and which endured about 3,5 months) and later with […]
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Why planes crash 2002- Case files 2002
Sylvia Wrigley2015English161 pg.9781516344253Review written by: Max HeldringThis 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 […]
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Review Voices in Flight: RAF Escapers and Evaders in WWII
Pen and Sword Books2015English236 pg.9781783831753Review written by: Joris GonggrijpA 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 […]
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Flying the Knife Edge - Papua New Guinea Bush Flying
Matt McLaughlin2015English978-988-14036-5-0Review written by: Max HeldringThis book describes the flying adventures of Matt McLauchlin in Papoea New Guinea (PNG) in a very realistic way. It starts with his short career in the New-Zealand Air Force, where he was washed out during his pilot training. On his search for a job in the commercial aviation he ends up in Papoea New […]
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Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy
Pen and Sword Books2015English208 pg.9781783376100I already own several of these “Images of War” books and what is nice about the series as a whole is the format; slightly smaller than A4, aromatic paper, and easily digestible information in bite-sized chunks. This book – as the name implies – concerns aircraft carriers. It details in four chapters the development of […]
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Polar Winds
Dundurn2014English224 pg.1459723791It gives a special feeling when you are reading on the 38th degree of latitude with 35 degrees a book about aviation in the Canadian region above the 60st degree of latitude with temperatures in winter of 40 degrees Celsius below zero, a difference of 75 degrees Celsius! At least the book provides cooling with […]