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• The horse of Phaëthon - Memories of the Gloster Meteor in the Netherlands

  
  Aart van Wijk

  2012

  Dutch/English

  

  416 pg.
  Review written by: Max Heldring

  Buy via www.elikser.nl. As a 7 year old boy I stood, with open mouth, watching to the first demonstration flight of Jan Flinterman in a Meteor Mk. 4 above the ice club terrain near Amsterdam, the nowadays Buitenveldert. At present, more than 50 years later, I read the from the Dutch translated book The horse […]

• The Dam buster Raid

  
  Alan W. Cooper

  Pen & Sword Books Ltd

  2013

  English

  

  216 pg.

  978-1-78159-474-2
  Review written by: Nico Mulder

  70 years after the event, the attack on the dams in the Ruhr area still speaks till the imagination. In 216 pages the writer tells how the new formed 617-squadron under the command of Guy Gibson is trained to try to bring the war to an end, with a specific for this purpose developed ‘bounce’-bomb. […]

• All horses of Apollo - A history of the Dutch Gloster Meteors

  
  Aart van Wijk

  2012

  English

  

  384 pg.

  978-90-79058-02-0

  In my hunt for excellent books at the aviation firmament I ran into this book and this specimen really deserves a honourable mention. And to top it all, the book is even a Dutch product. Whilst about everyone in 2013 is minding the JSF and the F-16 and some persons perhaps still staying behind at […]

• Hete hangijzers - De aanschaf van Nederlandse gevechtsvliegtuigen

  
  Bert Kreemers

  2009

  Dutch

  

  350 pg.

  Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

• Meer verhaaltjes? Heb je nog even….

  
  Jan Algera

  2013

  Dutch

  

  228 pg.

  Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

• Surviving trainer & transport aircraft of the world

  
  Don Berliner

  2013

  English

  

  185 pg.

  This book is the third lovely book of a series of three books that in total describe more than 300 airplane types that have survived the Second World War Funny is that on the book cover it says that this book describes the ‘less-glamorous’ airplanes. I do not agree with that! What for instance to […]

• Luck of a Lancaster

  
  Gordon Thorburn

  2013

  English

  

  200 pg.

  Where to start with a review about this book? No idea actually, but I will just begin at the bar, were Sticky Lewis-Sgt William Charles Lewis was found a lot in ’43 to – as I assume – cope with everything the experiences as flight engineer on the Lancaster’s he flew. At that bar it […]

• Eagles in the flesh

  
  Erik B. Kaye

  2012

  English

  

  214 pg.

  No, no, stop! Don’t scroll down to the next review…read this one for a moment! In the past I didn’t know so well what I had to do with delta-flying. I wondered sometimes if it was something for me, but I think I lacked courage to really hang beneath a piece of fabric and sail […]

• For the love of Flying: the story of Laurentian Air Services

  
  Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

  2009

  English

  

  224 pg.

  How often does it occur that a historical researcher dives deep into the history of a beautiful nostalgic aviation company? Not so very often I believe, DHC-2 but this is in any way a  very successful attempt of the Canadian Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail. The combination of researcher, writer en specifically this aviation company (that unfortunately doesn’t […]

• The last bush pilots

  
  Eric Auxier

  2012

  English

  

  111 pg.

  A humoristic original guy the writer of this book is; Eric Auxier. He nowadays flies big ones, but there was also a short period that in Alaska he flew smaller ones. This book is drenched with everything that Alaska IS: fantastic landscapes, beautiful birds, desolate landsapes, mountains, a lot of bad weather and little opportunity […]