Book Reviews

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  • RAF in Camera – 100 Years on Display

    RAF in Camera – 100 Years on Display
    Keith Wilson
    Pen and Sword Books
    2022
    English
    X X X X X X
    472 pg.
    ISBN: 9781526752185
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    When you are talking about the best series of aviation books, then this one is absolutely in my top 3! Why? Just because I can..and must be! This book is 472 pages and contains, just as the other 3 books that were
    published in the past years in this series, really beautiful pictures.

  • Short Finals: An Aviation Adventure. "It's Time To Fly"

    Short Finals: An Aviation Adventure.
    Mc Kechnie
    Independently published
    2021
    English
    X X X X X
    186 pg.
    979-8713651503
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    As the author said in his preview “strap yourself in the jump seat” and let Scot Gibson (the main person in this book ) fly you around the world.  And that is what this book is all about. You fly with Scot during his active career as a pilot in so many different planes and different disciplines that it also a book for non aviators who are interested in the aviation world.

  • Cuban Migs- The Defenders of Castro’s Air Force

    Cuban Migs- The Defenders of Castro’s Air Force
    Hélio Higuchi, Paulo Roberto Bastos Junior
    Harpia Publishing Verlags GmbH
    2022
    English
    X X X X X
    144 pg.
    9781950394098
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    (Nederlands) Yes! Here is another book of one of the most beautiful series that I collect! This time ‘Cuban Migs’ -and for the people that do not know the books of Harpia Publishing-; a great book that is part of a large series of books that, in the meantime, is published by them.

  • England Is My Village and The World Owes Me a Living

    England Is My Village and The World Owes Me a Living
    John Llewelyn Rhys
    HP Handheld Press
    1941
    English
    X X X X X
    62 pg.
    978-1-912766-66-6
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    John Llewelyn Rhys gained his pilot’s licence in 1934 and joined the RAF as a Reservist in the following year. He already had some writing experience and demonstrated his talent for it. He kept on flying until his untimely death in 1940 aged 29. So not much writing of this short lived pilot survived. England […]

  • The Aviation Pioneers of McCook Field

    The Aviation Pioneers of McCook Field
    Jerry Koszyk
    Shiffer Publishing
    2022
    English
    X X X X X
    185 pg.
    Jerry Koszyk
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    Jerry Koszyk is an amateur aviation researcher who by chance discovered that way back in 1917 the then fledgling Army Air Service had set up an airfield for aeronatical research and development.at Dayton, Ohio, called McCook Field, where commercial, civilian, aerobatic and military aviation merged. He also discovered that no book or other publication about […]

  • The Flying Shadow

    The Flying Shadow
    John Llewelyn Rhys
    Handheld Press UK
    2022
    English
    X X X X X
    978 1 912766 659
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    The best review that described this book is probably the introduction by Daniel Kilburn and Luke Seaber published in the first paragraph. They dig deep into the character of Robert Owen whose life as a pilot instructor is described in this novel. They explain to the reader what symbolisms and metaphors Rhys uses to show […]

  • Langs hier, langs daar

    Langs hier, langs daar
    Peer Dekkers
    Martin Leeuwis Publications
    2022
    Dutch
    X X X X X
    192 pg.
    978 94 90008 277
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    Unfortenately only in Dutch

  • FLIGHT- a visual tribute to military aviation in all its forms

    FLIGHT- a visual tribute to military aviation in all its forms
    Dirk Jan de Ridder
    Ridder Aero Media
    2022
    English
    X X X X X
    159 pg.
    ISBN 978-90-90-35771-3
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    Dirk Jan de Ridder is addicted to aviation photography and that delivered him beautiful pictures. Since he was 7, when he visited an aviation show at Gilze Rijen for the first time, he is ‘sold’ to aviation and more specific and foremost, military aviation. Throughout the years he makes trips to 23 different countries all over the world, which supplied him with pictures of planes and helicopters from 71 countries! Dirk Jan now decided to unite the most beautiful
    ones in a book.

  • Sky Raider

    Sky Raider
    Thomas Upson
    Sea Story Press USA Florida
    2022
    English
    X X X X X
    307 pg.
    B09VZJFNZ7
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    Reading this book I am not really sure whether this review should belong in AviationBookReviews because the title does not cover the load entirely. Duke Thomas, the main character in this book, is an  “ace” during the First World War and servicing the USAAF with a big passion namely the archaeology of the Middle East […]

  • Flying Light Helicopters with the Royal Marines-Collective Tales From Marine Air 489

    Flying Light Helicopters with the Royal Marines-Collective Tales From Marine Air 489
    Col Robert Wilsey
    Pen and Sword Books
    2021
    English
    X X X X X
    304 pg.
    9781399002509
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    This book contains the most comprehensive description of helicopter –, or any other aircraft-, flying I was ever privilleged to review.