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• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• Een Texelse luchtvaartgeschiedenis

  
  Jan Willem de Wijn

  2012

  Dutch

  

  148 pg.

  Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

• Out of the blue

  
  Halldale Media Group

  2011

  English

  

  246 pg.

  There are 100,000 books called ‘Out of the Blue’, but I felt drawn to this particular one and I absolutely had to have it. For 3 reasons: first of all the deep blue cover of the book reminded me of my beloved 2001 midnight blue Saab 93; secondly in honour of my youthful past during […]

• Flight

  
  Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

  2008

  English, Dutch and other

  

  64 pg.

  978 90 257 4598 1

  I picked up this little jewel in the children’s section of a book store, on a shelf labeled “8 years upwards”. Well, I would love to be 8 all over again, because this is a beautiful book. Over the course of 50 pages or so, it deals with the basic principles of flying, outlines the […]

• Van Pioniers tot professionals

  
  Corstiaan Prince & Gijs Dragt

  2012

  Dutch

  

  111 pg.

  Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

• Imperial Outpost in the Gulf

  
  Nicholas Stanley-Price

  2012

  English

  

  238 pg.

  After having reviewed ‘History in the Arab Skies’ by Gerald Butt, quite by chance I came across this little gem of a book about Sharjah airfield, close to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Its author, Nicholas Stanley-Price, was the cultural heritage advisor to the Sharjah Museums Department in the UAE from 2007 to […]

• The spectacle of flight

  
  Robert Wohl

  2005

  English

  

  323 pg.

  0-300-10692-0

  Never thought I would write 50 reviews about aviation books, but here it really is: my 50th review! And to think that, as a child, I hated books. I didn’t even read the bubbles in comic strips. I am humbly grateful to all those writers of beautiful books who gradually won me round! I carefully […]

• Heroes and landmarks of British aviation

  
  Richard Edwards & Peter J. Edwards

  2012

  English

  

  257 pg.

  978-1-84884-645-6

  My interest in British aviation dates from a good 25 years ago when, as a boy I was regularly to be found, practically glued to the perimeter fence of RAF Wildenrath in Germany, jotting down airplane numbers. I’ve fished out the notebook I used at the time. Thumbing through it I see among the entries […]