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The First Fighter Pilot - Roland Garros: The Life and Times of the Playboy Who Invented Air Combat
Check Six Books2019English
326 pg.ISBN-10: 1629671568 ISBN-13: 978-1629671567Review written by: Max HeldringThe First Fighter Pilot ……Roland Garros as a famous tennis tournament and tennis court in Paris is well known with everybody. But the question who was this person nobody knows. Yes a famous tennis player. Even my fellow pilots did not know. In this book Ed Cobleigh gives you the answer and in his usual […]
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The Healing- PAN AM Flight 001
Outskirts Press2018English
148 pg.ISBN-10: 1977200249 ISBN-13: 978-1977200242Review written by: Max HeldringThe Healing- Pan Am flight 001 is a commercial flight around the world that can be booked with PAN AM and were by you are free to step off or on at any stop on the route. Very popular in the sixties and seventies of the last century. The author of this book ‘The Healing- […]
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Flashpoint Russia- Russia’ s Air Power: Capabilities and Structure
Harpia Publishing Verlags GmbH2019English
144 pg.978-0-9973092-7-0Review written by: Rene VerjansGreat book this ‘Flashpoint Russia’! In the past – the eighties- I looked aimlessly to pictures of the ‘modern hunters’ of that time. The pictures of the Russian jet-fighters were often black and white, sometimes in colour, but always granulated. This on the contrary to the pictures of the Western jet-fighters and other aviation planes. […]
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Modern Chinese Warplanes
Harpia Publishing2018English
237 pg.978-0-9973092-6-3 / 978-0-9973092-8-7Review written by: Rene VerjansTwo reviews in one on Chinese warplanes and Army Aviation! I previously was already enthusiastic about the books of Andreas Rupprecht, published by Harpia Publishing, and also now I have to really say that I have two great new books on my bookshelf. The Air force book is with 240 pages slightly thicker than the […]
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The Collectors. US and British Cold War Aerial Intelligence Gathering
2019Helion and Company
328 pg.9781912390809Review written by: Max HeldringThe Collectors! ….Since the invention of the air balloon and the first flight with the heavier then air plane collecting information from the air was practised and certainly in case of a military conflict. However since the second world war gathering of information using aeroplanes was tilted to a higher level with special photo and reconnaissance […]
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South Pacific Air War Volume 2 The Struggle for Moresby March - April 1942
Avonmore Books; first edition2019English
232 pg.ISBN-10: 0994588976 ISBN-13: 978-0994588975Review written by: Rene VerjansSo, a very beautiful book this on the South Pacific Air War! It tells about a bit of war history which we know little about in the Western world (to my opinion). Nevertheless, it is my first book about being in war in those areas, specifically the surroundings of Moresby. Publisher Avonmore Books has with […]
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1973: THE FIRST NUCLEAR WAR. CRUCIAL AIR BATTLES OF THE OCTOBER 1973 ARAB-ISRAELI WAR
Helion & Company2019English
80 pg.9781911628712Review written by: Rene VerjansTHE FIRST NUCLEAR WAR. In 1973 I was 2 years old and that is exactly the reason why I didn’t know about this ‘war’. And then it is very nice that this book of Helion & Company crosses my path to change that! It is a book from the ‘Middle East & War-series’ of which […]
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Flight Craft 18; British Military Test and Evaluation Aircraft The golden years 1945-1945
Pen and Sword books2019English
72 pg.9781526746719Review written by: Rene VerjansSometimes I am jealous of the British! (and sometimes also not, by the way!) But now I am, when reading this beautiful colourful book of Flight Craft; what an aviation history has been created in a couple of decennia! And here we are just talking about the 1945-1975 years that are described in this book. […]
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Thunderbolts Triumphant- The 362nd Fighter Group vs Germany's Wehrmacht
Casemate Publishers2018English
220 pg.9781612006734Review written by: Joris GonggrijpReview on book Thunderbolts Triumphant. Chris is of the age of the grandsons/-doughters of the men who flew the Thunderbolt over wartime Europa, but lucky enough to have had the opportunity to interview about twenty of the survivors of the 362nd. He also got in contact with the Arbeitsgruppe Vermissten- forschung from postwar Germany what explains […]
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The Handley Page Victor - Tales from a Crew Chief - 40 Years of Life with the Victor
Pen And Sword Books2019English
128 pg.9781526732576Review written by: Joris GonggrijpRoger 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 […]