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  • JETLINER CABINS: Evolution & Innovation

    Jennifer Coutts Clay
    Jennifer Coutts Clay
    2024
    English
    X X X X X
    ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8218332037
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This publication is also already the fourth edition a sign that that the former publications were a success. Indeed this e-book is of the same high quality again revealing very profound information about all kind of airline lay-outs, colour designs, applied materials, maintenance of the cabins including the toilets, pantries etc.

  • Never Fly A Broken Plane

    LK Greer
    FTA Publishing
    2024
    English
    X X X X X
    116 pg.
    979-8991073707
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    The author is the daughter of Major Edward Greer a retired fighter pilot. The result is a book filled with short stories of her father’s career in the USAF. She calls him Pop and doesn’t try to hide her admiration for her wonderful father who’s stories does not match with the title of the book […]

  • Air Navigation: Fundamentals, Systems, and Flight Trajectory Management

    Octavian Thor Peter
    Springer
    2024
    English
    X X X X X
    814 pg.
    978 3 031 52994 8
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    The title says it all. Every facet of navigation is explained in this book. Simple souls will say start up, taxi out, take off and fly  direct to your destination. Well you should read this book first.

    The author lifts you up to academical levels not only with explaining the function of every instrument on board your plane that needs you  to fly safe and economical possible to every given airport but includes safe flight planning,  atmospheric physics , procedures, human interface, aerodynamics, air traffic services etc. etc.

  • This way up

    Shirley Jennings
    BLKDOG Publishing
    2024
    English
    X X X X X
    354 pg.
    ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DLBV9GBN
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    This is the tale of a rotomouse, as miss Jennings likes to call herself. She starts in life as a shy introvert girl, a “mouse”. That is until she discovers that aviation is what she needs in life to awaken  her slumbering love-instinct . A flight in Concord C-BOAC is the start of a  never […]

  • Airline Terrorism- A History with Case Studies

    Marc E. Vargo
    McFarland & Company Inc
    2024
    English
    X X X X X
    448 pg.
    9781476690841/ 978 1 4766 5228 3
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    Terrorism is a word that we read regularly in the newspaper these days, but air terrorism was there since aviation started. Since 1968, when an El Al flight was taken over by terrorists, hijacking was a regular returning occurrence and the most spectacular ones are described in detail in this book.

  • Het Logboek van Willem Raap- De vrije vliegenier

    Herman Mateboer
    Martin Leeuwis Publications
    2024
    Dutch
    X X X X X
    128 pg.
    978 94 90008 284
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    Booktext and Review only in Dutch

  • Dutch Boys

    Martin Leeuwis (Editor)
    Martin Leeuwis Publications
    2024
    English
    X X X X X X
    208 pg.
    ISBN 97894 90008 314
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    Yes, finally an English edition! It had to happen sometime! After previous publications by publisher Leeuwis Productions with Air Force pilot stories in Dutch, now finally a book in English. It contains almost 150 short stories by 62 Dutch Air Force pilots. And people, just to be clear, I really don’t have any shares in this publisher, but I have been a fan of this book format for years; just to the point, all kinds of stories about experiences with older and newer aircraft, sometimes serious or with drama or accidents, and so on and so on!

  • Say Again and no More

    Van Andel and Leeuwis
    Martin Leeuwis Publications
    1982
    English
    X X X X X X
    200 pg.
    9789080037519

    I already had almost the entire series om my bookshelf, but it turns out I didn’t have this book yet! 200 pages of airplane humor from 1982 and 1989. Yes, you read that right; 1982 and 1989! This book – which is now a combination of the books Say Again from 1982 and Say no […]

  • Bombing Hitler’s Hometown- The Untold Story of the Last Mass Bomber Raid of WW II

    Mike Croissant
    Kensington Publishing Corp.
    2024
    English
    X X X X X
    463 pg.
    978 0 8065 4304 8
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    Mike Croissant is telling in this book the stories of the bomber crews that were participating in one of the last big bomber raids on the Austrian city Linz shortly before the war ended.

  • From F-4 Phantom to A-10 Warthog: Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot

    Steve Ladd
    Air World
    2020
    English
    X X X X X
    296 pg.
    ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08NSJ4SKW/ ISBN: 978 1 52676 1248
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    Steve Ladd the author of this book describes his life and career in the USAF and retired as colonel and Director of Operations of the 81st Wing stationed in the UK.