Book Reviews

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  • BOEING 747, A History Delivering The Dream

    BOEING 747, A History Delivering The Dream
    Martin W. Bowman
    Pen & Sword
    2014
    English
    X X X X X
    248 pg.
    9781783030392
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    A book about one type of airplane? At first I was afraid for an endless list of facts. But the development and course of life of this iconic plane however read like a novel: red ears from time to time, a lot of astonishment and sometimes straight emotion! After the Boeing 707 and dreaming about […]

  • The PILOT Factor : A Fresh Book Into CRM

    The PILOT Factor : A Fresh Book Into CRM
    Jean Denis Marcellin
    CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
    2014
    English
    X X X X X
    92 pg.
    ISBN 1497374618
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    “It’s possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill”- Wilbur Wright. That statement sets the tone for this little book. CRM (Crew Resource Management) is then outlined from multiple point of views. This is a book about cockpit CRM. Next to the ‘theory’ luckily also a lot of examples are used in […]

  • To The Limit: An Air Cav Huey Pilot in Vietnam

    To The Limit: An Air Cav Huey Pilot in Vietnam
    Tom A. Johnson
    NAL Trade
    2007
    English
    X X X X X
    416 pg.
    ISBN-10: 0451222180
    Review written by: Rinie Hoogendoorn

    The ones who found Robert Mason’s ‘Chickenhawk’ interesting, shall surely appreciate Tom A. Johnson’s ‘To the limit’. Johnsons describes his mission as helicopter pilot to Vietnam in 1968, the year of the battles for Hue and Khe San. If you always wondered how it would be to land a difficult to navigate, fragile and overloaded […]

  • The Final Hours- The Luftwaffe Plot against Göring

    The Final Hours- The Luftwaffe Plot against Göring
    Johannes Steinhoff
    Potomac Books, Inc.
    2005
    English
    X X X X X
    224 pg.
    ISBN-10: 1574888633
    Review written by: Rinie Hoogendoorn

    The plot against Göring? Why haven’t we read anything about that before in the history books? Whoever buys this book because of the promising subtitle, shall be disappointed. There was no conspiracy. Only a lot of grumbling. That doesn’t alter the fact that this book, written by a fighter pilot in the Luftwaffe during the […]

  • Higher than an eagle, A Wings of Mercy Novel

    Higher than an eagle, A Wings of Mercy Novel
    Dennis Kitainik
    Merrimack Media
    2014
    English
    X X X X X
    194 pg.
    978-1-939166-40-1 (paperback) , isbn: 978-1-939166-41-8 (ebook)
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    Assistance under extreme circumstances in artic Quebec. A polar bear, pilot, military surgeon, navigator and two weather men form the ‘crew’ of this, above all, funny aviation story….a true aviation novel! Shortly summarized it comes down to this: a polar bear mauls one of the weather men severely, his colleague manages to get him to […]

  • Hamfist down

    Hamfist down
    G.E. Nolly
    2012
    English
    X X X X X
    233 pg.
    978-0-9754362-2-6
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    ‘This book is dedicated to American military veterans, past, present and future’; the first sentence is: ‘Getting shot down sucks.’ With that the tone of this Vietnam book has been set. Special Ops and Green Berets all over the place. And owh dear you if you say something nasty (Japanese journalist) about it! Interesting fact […]

  • From Stearmans to Starfighters: A Pilot's Memoir Paperback

    From Stearmans to Starfighters: A Pilot's Memoir Paperback
    William H Pickron Jr (Author), Patricia D West
    Tree of Life Memoirs
    2014
    English
    X X X X X
    152 pg.
    0615982360
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This book describes the military and civil carrier of William H. Pickron Jr., as an aviator, written by his daughter Patricia West. When William Prickon’s health at the end of 2012 diminished, he decided, after endless pressure from his family, to put onto paper his carrier as jet pilot at USAF and later as private […]

  • Pilots Notes for Seafire XV & XVII

    Pilots Notes for Seafire XV & XVII
    Air data Publications
    Air data Publications
    1946
    English
    X X X X X
    40 pg.
    -

    Still, very nice to have in your hands! Lately I was in the beautiful RAF museum in London where I bought this little book. It is a copy of the manual that the World War II pilots got by their instruction. It counts 40 pages and a few enclosures. Really everything is in it; from […]

  • The Hawker Hurricane: World War II from Primary Sources

    The Hawker Hurricane: World War II from Primary Sources
    Pen & Sword Digital
    Pen & Sword Digital
    2014
    English
    X X X X X
    5060247620961

    This DVD I recently encountered somewhere on the internet and because I became interested in aircraft from the time of WO II through trips in Tiger Moths, I bought this one. The DVD shows the history of the ‘Hawker Hurricane’ which was designed by Sydney Camm and from 1937 flown through countless countries, but mainly […]

  • COBRA! THE Attack helicopter

    COBRA! THE Attack helicopter
    Mike Vernier
    Pen & Sword Books
    2014
    English
    X X X X X
    248 pg.
    9781781593387
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    The book tells about the genesis of the first attack helicopter. This was born out of necessity. Vietnam became soon too dangerous for unprotected helicopters of the Air Cavalry. What becomes apparent in this book, is that from the early beginning of WO II and the by everyone known M.A.S.H. helicopter for transport of the […]