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RAF In Camera: 1970s
Pen & Sword Books2017English320 pg.ISBN: 9781473897960Review written by: Rene VerjansRAF In Camera: 1970s – Keith Wilson Goodness me! 390 pages filled with really stunning pictures! Mostly colour but also a couple of black and white ones. I was already a bit of a fan of this expanding series and now completely. It was in 1971 that I was born and that was the time […]
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Zemke's Wolfpack- A Photographic Odyssey of the 56th Fighter Group During the Second World War
Fighting High Publishing2015English208 pg.ISBN-10: 0992620783 ISBN-13: 978-0992620783Review written by: René VerjansZemke’s Wolfpack…Talking about splendid books! This is one! Compilated with lots of love by the 2 authors… The book starts with a short but powerful description with regards to them to whom this book is contributed; the people that were part of the 56th ‘Fighter group’ (FG). Beautiful and short but intense! The 56th FG […]
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African MiGs Volume 1 and 2
Harpia Publishing L.L.C.2010English256 pg.978-0-9825539-8-5Review written by: Rene VerjansSpecial books they are these 2 volumes about a large group of countries in the continent Africa and then especially in –what the writers call- the ‘Sub-Sahara’. Not that I normally am so interested in the air forces of African counties, but I was simply curious about these air forces of which you seldom hear, because […]
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Flight: 100 Years of Aviation
DK Publishing2009EnglishB00J5SZF8A/ B014S40UQMReview written by: Pedro Blas GonzalezThe pilot slowly brings the aircraft to the beginning of the runway. I look around the cabin and notice many passengers asleep. They have been sleeping since shortly after boarding. In this regard, I am of one mind with the stoic philosopher, Marcus Aurelius, when the venerable ancient Greek thinker writes, “Thus to a man […]
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Twin Cessna The Cessna 300 and 400 series of Light Twins
Schiffer Publishing Ltd2017English127 pg.9780764352263Review written by: Rene VerjansIn 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 […]
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Lightning from the Cockpit- Flying the Supersonic Legend
Pen & Sword Books2013English192 pg.978 1 84415 355 8Review written by: Max HeldringThe Lightning was my favorite jetfighter controlling the skies in the sixties over England. Of course I have read more books about the Lightning but never so detailed in describing the history and characteristics of this legend. The first test flight took place in august 1954 and it was in service for more then 28 […]
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Phantom in the Cold War-RAF Wildenrath 1977 - 1992
Pen & Sword Books2017English271 pg.9781526704085Review written by: René VerjansSomewhere around my 14th birthday my dad told me that, approximately 40kms from our home in The Netherlands, there was a British Military airport on German soil, near the border; RAF Wildenrath. He better had not told me so! In about 3 years I have visited probably 40 times and that is where my love […]
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The Shepherd
Hutchinson1976English670-63969-9Review written by: Pedro Blas GonzalezFrederick Forsyth’s The Shepherd is a novella of man’s instinct for survival. The tale may appear simple, but is actually multi-layered. The account of a pilot who flies a De Havilland Vampire DH100 and becomes lost in disorienting fog, after losing the compass and other instruments due to an electrical failure, turns out to be […]
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Coming down in the drink
Pen and Sword books2017English190 pg.9781473891531Review written by: Max HeldringMany books have been written about the second WW and especially bomber command. In this particular book we follow the training and posting at an active squadron of Bomber Command during the war of air gunner/wireless operator John Brennan. At first he was posted as crew member on a Wellington twin engine bomber in the Middle […]
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Douglas DC-9/MD-80 - At the Gate No. 1
Squadron/Signal Publications2007English80 pg.ISBN-10: 089747516X ISBN-13: 978-0897475167Review written by: Pedro Blas GonzalezWith the passage of time, the reliable Douglas DC-9 has proven to be a venerable aircraft. In a milieu when machines are readily discarded, often on the fickle whim of passing fads, the DC-9 is still flying. Douglas DC-9/MD-80 is a very good visual portrayal of the different series of the Douglas DC-9. The book […]