Book Reviews

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  • The crisis after the crisis/ Faro: de ramp na de ramp- van slachtoffer naar probleem

    Cor ten Hove
    Reed business
    English, Dutch
    X X X X X
    313 pg.
    90 5850 495 6

    December 21, 1992: Disaster strikes Faro, Portugal. A Dutch Martinair DC-10(owned by the Dutch Airforce and operated by Martinair) crashes at the airport leaving many passengers and crew members dead or wounded. Cor ten Hove, the author of this book, is a passenger on that plane. He survives, but his life will never be the […]

  • Baling Out

    Robert Jackson
    Pen & Sword Books Ltd
    2006
    English
    X X X X X X
    192 pg.
    978 1 84415 347 3

    It’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 […]

  • Please Wait to be seated

    Martin Leeuwis
    English
    X X X X X
    978-94-90008-00-0

    Please 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 […]

  • Spitfire-manual 1940

    Dilip Sarkar
    Amberley Publishing
    2010
    English
    X X X X X
    288 pg.
    978-1-84868-436-2

    What is the most famous aircraft in aviation history? Many people will say ‘the Spitfire’. And who would not want to fly himself in a Spitfire?!… start for this moment with this Spitfire manual from Dilip Sarkar! Dilip Sarkar has been a Spitfire fanatic for many years and the energy which thus arose is converted […]

  • Luchtvaart 2011, 2012...

    Ruud Vos
    Alk B.V.
    2014
    Dutch
    X X X X X
    176 pg.

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

  • The battle of Britain / De slag om Engeland

    Edward Bishop
    Just Publishers
    2008
    English, Dutch
    X X X X X
    192 pg.
    978 90 77895 70 2

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

  • The Sky My Kingdom - Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot

    Hanna Reitsch
    Casemate Books
    2011
    English
    X X X X X X
    272 pg.
    978-1-932033-97-7

    It was the memorable book ‘They went into the air as angels with homesickness – nostalgia.’ From Jan Jacobs Mulder in which I read for the first time about Hanna Reitsch (see my previous book discussions). Next in another book and thus I had to know more about this woman. Who was Hanna? Hanna was […]

  • Inside the sky: A Mediation on Flight / Tussen de wolken

    William Langewiesche
    2003
    Dutch, English
    X X X X X
    215 pg.
    0679429832

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

  • Guilty by association / De vliegende Hollander

    Rudi Dekkers
    2008
    English
    X X X X X
    272 pg.
    0982668732

    I was walking into a bookstore (enslaved as I am) looking one or more interesting books. I bought two! In this book review I will discuss one of them, ‘The Flying Dutchman’ by Rudi Dekkers. This book was published in Dutch in 2008. In the English language, he published in 2011 the book ‘Guilty by […]

  • Onze vliegers in mei 1940

    Hans Vos
    Dutch
    X X X X X

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.