Military aviation / war
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E.L.T.A. The first aviation exhibition Amsterdam 1919
2010English
234 pg.978-82-997371-1-1Ever heard of this exhibition?! I had not! …. What you will first notice about this book is that it is relatively large. It is printed in A4 size and of excellent quality. When I opened it for the first time I noticed that it was written in a very detail oriented manner and that […]
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De snelste mens ter wereld
Uitgeverij Aspekt B.V.Dutch
978-90-5911-860-7A very nice book this time by Bart Vandamme from Belgium. For him it all started in October 2001, when he was invited to the annual “Gathering of Eagles” in the city of Lancaster (near Edwards AFB) in California. I never get invited for such gatherings! There he met people like Chuck Yeager, Bill Dana […]
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Topgun days
Skyhorse Publishing2010English
978-1-61608-005-1Topgun! Everyone knows Topgun as the movie Topgun from 1986 with Tom Cruise and his lovely lady. And most of the time that’s it! Topgun is the flashy name for the American Navy Fighter Weapons School, which was founded as navy pilots performed relatively poor in the Vietnam War in comparison to other wars. Nowadays, […]
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Spitfire on my tail - a view from the other side
Independent BooksEnglish
9781872836003It is again the second world war, which yields a very good book. This time it’s a book by a German Messerschmitt 109-pilot who was shot down on October 27, 1940 by a Spitfire over the south east of the United Kingdom. The Battle of Britain was in full swing and not long after that […]
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Sea Harrier Over The Falklands
Orion Publishing Co2000English
978-0304355426No trudge novel but again a real ‘aviation book’ for the night table! In my search for good books that cause your heart beating faster, I bought ‘Sea Harrier Over The Falklands’ of Commander ‘Sharkey’ Ward. The book is about the use of the then brand-new Sea Harrier in the conflict around the Falklands in […]
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Vulcan 607
Transworld Publishers Ltd2007English
464 pg.978-0552152297It was last year when I walked at Schiphol Airport on a early morning looking for a newspaper. If you can only buy the Dutch Telegraph that is not really a choice I thought. At that moment my eye fell on an English book with a picture of a Vulcan-aircraft on the front ; Җulcan […]
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Lock on No1 F-104/ No2 F-16
Verlinden PublicationsEnglish
90 70932 01 6/90 70932 03 2Jesus, that was long ago! These booklets were issued in 1983 and 1984. Already almost 30 years old, but still so beautiful that I had to write about them. The books are not too thick and actually written for fanatic modellers. The books contain lots of photos of all the details of the F-104 Starfighter […]
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The lost Squadron / Het verdwenen squadron
1994English, Dutch
244 pg.0747518262I was tipped to read this this book and I got no regrets! This book by David Hayes from 1994 is an easily readable and fascinating story, combined with many beautiful color and black / white photographs. It tells the story of a search for eight missing WW2-aircraft in Greenland. The story begins on July […]
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Baling Out
Pen & Sword Books Ltd2006English
192 pg.978 1 84415 347 3It’s as if the devil is playing with it, but even now when I ‘just’ pulled ‘an-nice-looking-book’ off the bookshelf somewhere, it again appears to be …..is another great book. Maybe you think I am having shares of this publisher, but that’s not the fact I can assure you! This book is about the development […]
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Please Wait to be seated
English
978-94-90008-00-0Please 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 […]