Book Reviews

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  • Why planes crash 2001 - A critical view on plane crashes in the 21st century

    Why planes crash 2001 - A critical view on plane crashes in the 21st century
    Sylvia Wrigley
    Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    150 pg.
    UUID 6F7525Co-9255-11 E2 – 9 E 96-0800200C9A66
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This e-book contains 11 stories of plane crashes, described in great detail, including the communication between the pilots and traffic control. These crashes have taken place during the course of 2001. With each description of the crash also a piece of text of the original investigation report is published and it contains a link to […]

  • RAF Tanker Navigator

    RAF Tanker Navigator
    Peter Bodle and Tony Golds
    Pen & Sword Books
    2012
    English
    X X X X X
    192 pg.
    9781844157440
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This book tells about the daily life of a RAF navigator, who for the biggest part of his military career flew on the then 4 engine RAF jets like the Vickers Valiant and the Handley-Page Victor. Tony Golds – our main character- joined the RAF almost directly after his study. That was in 1960, the […]

  • Not brave enough

    Not brave enough
    Rick Butcher
    AuthorHouse
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    380 pg.
    1491821795

    This is a book that every beginning commercial pilot must read! It describes the pilot career of the author with all the ups-and-downs, and it quickly shows that there are plenty of them, in this story. After he has got his license, he works as a pilot instructor for a period in the small aviation. […]

  • The mighty Eighth at war

    The mighty Eighth at war
    Martin W. Bowman
    Pen & Sword Books
    2010
    English
    X X X X X
    288 pg.
    9781783830015
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This 282 pages counting book tells about the actions of the 8th US air force during the Second World War. The 8th contained B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator bombers and operated from Great Britain under the command of brigadier general Ira. C. Eaker. The book gives a detailed overview of all the operations of […]

  • Grumman F9F Cougar Detail & Scale Series

    Grumman F9F Cougar Detail & Scale Series
    Bert Kinzey
    Detail and Scale Series
    2014
    English
    X X X X X
    978-0-9860677-1-6
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This e-book describes the Grunman F9F Cougar, the first arrow wing jet of the American Navy. With the appearance of the MIG 15 above Korea, the American Navy was heavenly pressurized to quickly come with a counter reply and that led to the development of the Cougar as successor of the ‘straight wing’ Grunman Panther. […]

  • All along the control tower, A photobook

    All along the control tower, A photobook
    Barten en Barten
    Narwal Publishers
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    220 pg.
    978-90-817110-4-3

    One would not exactly refer to aviation as a niche. Books on the subject of aviation probably more so. However, books about World War ll control towers would certainly fall into that category! This book from the brothers Theo and Frans Barten contains photographs of the last 52 remaining Second World War towers at (former) […]

  • Aerotoxic Syndrome - Aviation’s Darkest Secret

    Aerotoxic Syndrome - Aviation’s Darkest Secret
    John Hoyte
    Pilot Press UK
    214
    English
    X X X X X
    229 pg.
    978-0-9929508-0-4
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    “Till this day, the only thing filtering this toxic soup out of the cabin are the lungs of the passengers and crew”. This quote sets the tone for this book. A good listener only needs half a word: bleed air for the pressure cabin. With the introduction of the jet engine in the civilian aviation […]

  • Logistics in the Falklands War

    Logistics in the Falklands War
    Kenneth L. Privatsky
    Pen & Sword Books
    2014
    English
    X X X X X
    248 pg.
    978 1 47382 3129
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    It is more than 30 years ago, in the meantime, and still one is writing about it like it happened yesterday: the 74 days during Argentinian occupation of the Falkland Islands. This time the pen is handled by an American intendancy officer, who after 30 years was allowed to look in the archives, which before […]

  • Avro LANCASTER in Military Service 1945 - 1965

    Avro LANCASTER in Military Service 1945 - 1965
    Martin Derry
    Pen & Sword
    2014
    English
    X X X X X
    96 pg.
    978 147382 7240
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    The in the tittle mentioned dates are in some way not really correct: the first operational flight with Lancaster bombers took place on the 3rd of March 1942 (with 4 Lancaster’s that laid mines before the German coast). 7.377 bombers have been built of which 3.460 were lost during operational ‘wartime’. Crashes during take-off and […]

  • Broken dreams - The story of a unique Dakota told by the old lady herself

    Broken dreams - The story of a unique Dakota told by the old lady herself
    Suzanne van Leendert - Barry McCabe
    Narwal Publishers
    2014
    English
    X X X X X
    120 pg.
    978-90-817110-5-0

    There was no other way it could have ended, that Friday the 13th in August 2010! After all, it was a Friday and it was the 13th. On that particular day, a C-47 was transported from the Wings of Liberation Museum in Best to Valkenburg – a former military air base in the Netherlands. The […]