Books A-Z

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  • The Handley Page Victor - Tales from a Crew Chief - 40 Years of Life with the Victor

    The Handley Page Victor - Tales from a Crew Chief - 40 Years of Life with the Victor
    Roger Brooks ARAeS
    Pen And Sword Books
    2019
    English
    X X X X X
    128 pg.
    9781526732576
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    Roger Brooks’ involvement with the Victor started in 1966, three years after Cary Powers in his high flying U2 spyplane was downed by a Sovjet rocket. That resulted in “sudden death” for high flying bombers. The Victor was then converted to a tanker for in-flight refuelling. He writes on this aircraft in his book ‘The […]

  • Cessna 172 - A pocket history

    Cessna 172 - A pocket history
    Ron Smith
    2010
    English
    X X X X X
    978 1 4456 0086 4

    The best-selling GA aircraft in the world; the Cessna 172! That’s where this book is about. What strikes you first, is that it is a small book (about 17 x 12 cm). The book is 128 pages thick and a ‘must have’ for every Cessna pilot and owner. From start to finish the book is […]

  • Classic light aircraft

    Classic light aircraft
    Ron Smith
    Shiffer Publishing ltd
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    415 pg.
    978-0-7643-4896-9
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    You must really love small aircraft an awful lot to be able to produce a book like this! More than 800 aircraft are listed in this bible of more than 400 pages thick! It is something like a Janes Defense…but then different. Not all ‘light aircraft’ are enlisted in this book, else it would be twice […]

  • Twin Cessna The Cessna 300 and 400 series of Light Twins

    Twin Cessna The Cessna 300 and 400 series of Light Twins
    Ron Smith
    Schiffer Publishing Ltd
    2017
    English
    X X X X X
    127 pg.
    9780764352263
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    In the past when I was young…30 years ago..or so.. the air was still congested with planes. At least in the Netherlands! Anyway, that is my experience. If it weren’t jets, then it was a Boeing E3A Centry and if it wasn’t a Boeing, than you would hear the unmistakable sound of a 2 engine […]

  • Vulcan 607

    Vulcan 607
    Rowland White
    Transworld Publishers Ltd
    2007
    English
    X X X X X
    464 pg.
    978-0552152297

    It was last year when I walked at Schiphol Airport on a early morning looking for a newspaper. If you can only buy the Dutch Telegraph that is not really a choice I thought. At that moment my eye fell on an English book with a picture of a Vulcan-aircraft on the front ; Җulcan […]

  • Modern Taiwanese Air Power | The Republic of China Air Force Today

    Modern Taiwanese Air Power | The Republic of China Air Force Today
    Roy Choo and Peter Ho
    Harpia Publishing
    2021
    English
    X X X X X
    96 pg.
    978-1-950394-03-6
    Review written by: René Verjans

    Review Bookreview: Modern Taiwanese Air Power, The Republic of China Air Force Today- Roy Choo, Peter Ho Again, a great edition out of the Harpia Publishing series, this time about the Taiwanese Aviation. When you look at the map, then Taiwan is a small dot next to extremely huge China, which considers Taiwan for years […]

  • Guilty by association / De vliegende Hollander

    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 […]

  • Higher: 100 Years of Boeing

    Higher: 100 Years of Boeing
    Russ Banham
    Chronicle Books, San Francisco
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    192 pg.
    9781452140537
    Review written by: Pedro Blas Gonzalez

    The Boeing Company is synonymous with twentieth century American technology and industry. From its humble start in a boathouse in Seattle, the Boeing Company has been a world leader in aviation history and the development of rockets and satellites. William Boeing, a lumberman, started the company in 1916. The young Boeing combined his robust love of […]

  • Luchtvaart 2011, 2012...

    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.

  • His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine

    His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine
    Samuel C. Gwynne
    Scribner Books
    2023
    English
    X X X X X X
    320 pg.
    ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 086154708X ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0861547081
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    It is really one of the most fascinating and interesting books I have read about airships that explains and proves documented why airships and in particular Britain’s R101 were dangerous and doomed as a global air transport system. The backgrounds of the persons involved in the realisation of R 101 and their motives take an important of the book. Samuel Gwynne is certainly a very good story teller!