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Flight from the Croft
Whittles Publishing2019English
224 pg.ISBN-10: 184995397X ISBN-13: 978-1849953979Review written by: Max Heldring226th Review Flight from the Croft- Bill Innes In Dutch croft means small farm. Well the contents of this book do not cover the title however what the author wants to tell us: were ever you originated from there is no limit in what you can achieve. In this book he is telling us his […]
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KOLWEZI 1978 Operations Leopard and Red Bean
Helion & Company Ltd2018English
72 pg.978-1-912390-59-5Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp225th Review Operations Leopard’ and Red Bean’ – Kolwezi 1978- Daniel Kowalczuk Daniel Kowalczuk is a Polish man specialised in ‘post-colonial wars’. The Kolwezi-drama is a good example of that. This takes place after the de-colonisation of Belgian Congo in the Democratic Republic Congo in 1960 after which the province Katanga declares itself independent. This […]
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US Navy PBY Catalina Units of The Atlantic War
Osprey Publishing2010English
96 pg.978-1-84176-910-3Review written by: Pedro Blas Gonzalez224th Review US Navy PBY Catalina Units of The Atlantic War The Consolidated Aircraft Corporation’s PBY Catalina is a perfect example of the demands that evolving technologies make on corporations, and the creative and engineering process. It is also an example of how quickly the twentieth century went from being the birth of aviation to […]
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MESSERSCHMITT BF109
Pen & Sword Books2018English
80 pg.9781526710536Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp223rd Review MESSERSCHMITT BF109 Flight Craft 14 – Robert Jackson Robert Jackson aims with this book(et) on two target groups: 1) lovers of the BF109 history and 2) model builders. In a lot of circumstances these two target groups do converge. To each target group exactly half of the book is dedicated: 40 pages. My […]
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Missing presumed Murdered
Fighting High Publishing2018English
240 pg.978 1999812850Review written by: Max HeldringMissing Presumed Murdered: One raid, two trials, three lost airmen In December 1944 the RAF launched a big bombardment raid with as target the Krupp steel factories in Essen. During this bombardment six Lancaster bombers were shot down by the Germans. The crew was reported as missing. Quickly after the war it appeared that 4 […]
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Nicaragua, 1961–1990 Volume 1: The Downfall of the Somosa Dictatorship
Helion & Company Ltd.2019English
72 pg.978-1-911628-21-7Review written by: Joris GonggrijpNicaragua, 1961–1990 Volume 1: The Downfall of the Somosa Dictatorship David Francois is a Frenchman in ‘militant communism’. Considering France its experience therewith in Vietnam as background, makes his curiosity for the battle in Nicaragua of the ‘red’ Sandinists against a by the Occident helped dictator, understandable. My interest arouse during a visit to this […]
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Ernest K. Gann’s Flying Circus
Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.,1974English
224 pg.ISBN-10: 0025424009 ISBN-13: 978-0025424005Review written by: Pedro Blas Gonzalez217th Review Ernest K. Gann’s Flying Circus- Ernest Kellogg Gann In 1935 Ernest K. Gann began barnstorming. Like so many other pilots in the early days of aviation, Gann’s passion for flying started with wood and canvass bi-planes. He would eventually become an airline pilot, flying many types of airplanes in different parts of the […]
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To Caress the Air: Augustus Herring and the Dawn of Flight. Book One
Write Associates LLC2018English
788 pg.ASIN: B07B9N7XWJReview written by: Joris GonggrijpTo Caress the Air: Augustus Herring and the Dawn of Flight. Book One Gierke worked on this book for seven years, and his readers will be rewarded with minutious detail as a result ! It is one of the most thoroughly researched biographies I have ever read. There are three parallel storylines: the biography of […]
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To Caress the Air: Augustus Herring and the Dawn of Flight. Book Two
Write Associates LLC; 1 edition2018English
786 pg.ASIN: B07D6WG3VWReview written by: Max HeldringReview To Caress the Air: Augustus Herring and the Dawn of Flight. Book Two In book 2 we proceed with the process in which Herring as plaintiff against Curtiss seeking recognition for his many innovations that paved the way to the first motorised flight with a machine heavier then air. His construction company went bankrupt […]
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Oblique Views: Aerial Photography and Southwest Archaeology
Museum of New Mexico Press2015English
124 pg.ISBN-10: 9780890136072 ISBN-13: 978-0890136072Review written by: Pedro Blas Gonzalez214th Review Oblique Views: Aerial Photography and Southwest Archaeology- Charles A. Lindbergh (Photographer), Heisey Adriel (Photographer), Adriel Heisey (Photographer) Aerial photography is commonplace today. While drones (unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV) may be the latest embodiment of this form of photography, aerial photography dates to the nineteenth century. The most common and practical form of aerial photography […]