Military aviation / war

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  • RA-5C Vigilante Units in Combat

    RA-5C Vigilante Units in Combat
    Robert R. “Boom” Powell
    Osprey Publishing
    2010
    English
    X X X X X
    96 pg.
    978-1-84176-749-9
    Review written by: Pedro Blas Gonzalez

    Review- RA-5C Vigilante Units in Combat – Robert R. “Boom” Powell The North American Aviation RA-5C Vigilante is the kind of airplane that deserves to be written about based just on its aesthetic properties. This is a beautiful airplane. With its cutting-edge and supersonic aerodynamics, the profile of the well-balanced and symmetrical RA-5C looks like […]

  • F-111 & EF-111 Units in Combat

    F-111 & EF-111 Units in Combat
    Peter E. Davies & Rolando Ugolini
    Osprey Publishing
    2014
    English
    X X X X X
    97 pg.
    978-1-78200-347-2
    Review written by: Pedro Blas Gonzalez

    Review F-111 & EF-111 Units in Combat- Peter E. Davies The F-111 Aardvark was designed to substitute the Republic F-105 Thunderchief. The General Dynamics aircraft became operational in the U.S. Air Force in July 1967. Depending on who you talk to, the F-111 was either a great airplane or something of a nuisance. From the […]

  • F9F Panther Units of the Korean War

    F9F Panther Units of the Korean War
    Warren Thompson
    Osprey Publishing
    2014
    English
    X X X X X
    96 pg.
    978-17800-350
    Review written by: Pedro Blas Gonzalez

    Review F9F Panther Units of the Korean War- Warren Thompson The end of World War II saw the defeat of German national socialism and the propping up of international communism, which spread from the Soviet Union. Even though international communism had been a reality since the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks created a […]

  • U.S. Navy and Marine Corps A-4 Skyhawk Units of the Vietnam War

    U.S. Navy and Marine Corps A-4 Skyhawk Units of the Vietnam War
    Peter Mersky
    Osprey Publishing
    2007
    English
    X X X X X
    112 pg.
    978-1-84603-181-6
    Review written by: Pedro Blas Gonzalez

    205th Review U.S. Navy and Marine Corps A-4 Skyhawk Units of the Vietnam War- Peter Mersky It is easy for aviation enthusiasts to appreciate any or most books written about aviation history. This is because any new work that sheds attention on aviation’s yesteryear and its current development is enough to excite their curiosity. For […]

  • Albatros D.III/D.V: Aces’ Fighter (Famous Airplanes)

    Albatros D.III/D.V: Aces’ Fighter (Famous Airplanes)
    Tomasz J. Kowalski, Wojciech Fajga, Vitor Costa, Damian Majsak
    Kagero
    2018
    English
    X X X X X
    92 pg.
    ISBN-10: 8365437953 ISBN-13: 978-8365437952
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    Review Albatros D.III/D.V: Aces’ Fighter (Famous Airplanes) This book written in 2 languages namely English and Polish is solemny and ultimately dedicated to the Albatros WW 1 fighter plane. An A4 size laminated soft cover book with a high quality paper that gives the reader a very good description of the history, development, design and […]

  • MODERN CHINESE WARPLANES, Chinese Naval Aviation- Aircraft and Units

    MODERN CHINESE WARPLANES, Chinese Naval Aviation- Aircraft and Units
    Andreas Rupprecht
    Harpia Publishing L.L.C.
    2018
    English
    X X X X X
    96 pg.
    978-0-9973092-5-6
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    As we know from Hapia Publishing, this has also become a splendid publication. This book focusses on the state of being of the Chinese Naval army forces and her accompanying aircrafts in the year 2018. The 96 pages counting book has a logical structure that starts with a short bit of history and future, used […]

  • Voices in Flight: RAF Night Operations

    Voices in Flight: RAF Night Operations
    Martin. W. Bowman
    Pen & Sword Books
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    232 pg.
    9781783831944
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This book contains a lot of dramatic personal stories how several crewmembers  of RAF bomber command experienced their nightly bomber missions in the early years of the WW2. There are already many stories circulating about the massive bomber formations from the RAF and USAAF that were hitting Germany by night and day bombing in the […]

  • EAGLES OVER HUSKY. THE ALLIED AIR FORCES IN THE SICILIAN CAMPAIGN, 14 MAY TO 17 AUGUST 1943

    EAGLES OVER HUSKY. THE ALLIED AIR FORCES IN THE SICILIAN CAMPAIGN, 14 MAY TO 17 AUGUST 1943
    Alexander Fitzgerald-Black
    Helion & Company Ltd
    2018
    English
    X X X X X
    192 pg.
    978-1-9122174-94-2
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    Operation Husky was the title for the first joint executed British-American landing operation, at which the navy, aviation and land forces of both countries cooperated. In short: the word ‘us’ had to be replaced by ‘we’. A joint commando and cooperative army forces were then not yet that obvious. You do not become a general […]

  • Gerhard Fieseler. The man behind the Storch

    Gerhard Fieseler. The man behind the Storch
    Nigel Holden
    Helion & Company
    2018
    English
    X X X X X
    328 pg.
    ISBN-10: 1911512749 ISBN-13: 978-1911512745
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    Readers that are familiar with the military aviation history know the Fieseler Storch. A famous STOL aircraft built during the second world war by Gerhard Fieseler for the German Luftwaffe with its specific silhouette and characteristics. But the name of the book ‘does not cover the load’ as we Dutch used to say. The book […]

  • EMB-312 Tucano - Brazil's turboprop success story

    EMB-312 Tucano - Brazil's turboprop success story
    João Paulo Zeitoun Moralez
    Harpia Publishing L.L.C.
    2018
    English
    X X X X X
    256 pg.
    978-0-9973092-3-2

    This book describing the success story of the EMB Tucano is a joy to read and a marvelous photo book showing the Tucano in all his executions and paintings that were used by the different air forces it served. The Tucano was developed as successor of the different basic and light jet trainers in use […]