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  • Fly For Your Life: The Story of Spitfire & Hurricane Ace Robert Stanford Tuck

    Larry Forrester
    Acquisition Analytics Inc
    2022
    English
    X X X X X
    378 pg.
    ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1738697312 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1738697311
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This biography of Stanford Tuck was first published in 1956 and as a youngster who had a great desire to become a pilot I have read this book with red ears. Now 60 years later it is still a nice book to read for everyone interested in the history of WW2 and especially in the Battle of Britain were Stanford Tuck played a star role as a fighter pilot with 29 confirmed victories.

  • The Learjet History: Beginnings, Innovations and Utilization

    Peter G. Hamel, Gary D. Park
    Springer
    2022
    English
    X X X X X X
    389 pg.
    ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 303106030X ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3031060304
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This book is a monument for the Learjet and Bill Lear written with an unbelievable amount of technical information supported by visual printed content, drawings of modifications and a great amount of photographs. A must for every LJ pilot or business pilot and their worldwide users. The authors must have worked on this for years because all technicalities are well researched and detailed described. I am sure competition must have acquired this book also. The company delivered the last Learjet in May 2021 having produced 3056 models.

  • Red Dragon ‘Flankers’, China’s Prolific ‘Flanker’ Family

    Andreas Rupprecht
    Harpia Publishing Verlags GmbH
    2022
    English
    X X X X X X
    254 pg.
    978-1-950394-10-4
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    Andreas Rupprecht writes cool books! And who says Rupprecht, says China! This is the umpteenth book of him, published by Harpia Publishing. I am really very happy with this publisher and what they have published till now. On their site it states at the category ‘Strategic handbooks’, only 1 book, but, as far as I am concerned, all the books – also this one – can be stated in this category, when it concerns nowadays airforces or other flying army units. As the quality and information value can be rated as ‘good’!

  • RAF in Camera – 100 Years on Display

    Keith Wilson
    Pen and Sword Books
    2022
    English
    X X X X X X
    472 pg.
    ISBN: 9781526752185
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    When you are talking about the best series of aviation books, then this one is absolutely in my top 3! Why? Just because I can..and must be! This book is 472 pages and contains, just as the other 3 books that were
    published in the past years in this series, really beautiful pictures.

  • Short Finals: An Aviation Adventure. "It's Time To Fly"

    Mc Kechnie
    Independently published
    2021
    English
    X X X X X
    186 pg.
    979-8713651503
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    As the author said in his preview “strap yourself in the jump seat” and let Scot Gibson (the main person in this book ) fly you around the world.  And that is what this book is all about. You fly with Scot during his active career as a pilot in so many different planes and different disciplines that it also a book for non aviators who are interested in the aviation world.

  • Cuban Migs- The Defenders of Castro’s Air Force

    Hélio Higuchi, Paulo Roberto Bastos Junior
    Harpia Publishing Verlags GmbH
    2022
    English
    X X X X X
    144 pg.
    9781950394098
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    (Nederlands) Yes! Here is another book of one of the most beautiful series that I collect! This time ‘Cuban Migs’ -and for the people that do not know the books of Harpia Publishing-; a great book that is part of a large series of books that, in the meantime, is published by them.

  • England Is My Village and The World Owes Me a Living

    John Llewelyn Rhys
    HP Handheld Press
    1941
    English
    X X X X X
    62 pg.
    978-1-912766-66-6
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    John Llewelyn Rhys gained his pilot’s licence in 1934 and joined the RAF as a Reservist in the following year. He already had some writing experience and demonstrated his talent for it. He kept on flying until his untimely death in 1940 aged 29. So not much writing of this short lived pilot survived. England […]

  • The Aviation Pioneers of McCook Field

    Jerry Koszyk
    Shiffer Publishing
    2022
    English
    X X X X X
    185 pg.
    Jerry Koszyk
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    Jerry Koszyk is an amateur aviation researcher who by chance discovered that way back in 1917 the then fledgling Army Air Service had set up an airfield for aeronatical research and development.at Dayton, Ohio, called McCook Field, where commercial, civilian, aerobatic and military aviation merged. He also discovered that no book or other publication about […]

  • The Flying Shadow

    John Llewelyn Rhys
    Handheld Press UK
    2022
    English
    X X X X X
    978 1 912766 659
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    The best review that described this book is probably the introduction by Daniel Kilburn and Luke Seaber published in the first paragraph. They dig deep into the character of Robert Owen whose life as a pilot instructor is described in this novel. They explain to the reader what symbolisms and metaphors Rhys uses to show […]

  • FLIGHT- a visual tribute to military aviation in all its forms

    Dirk Jan de Ridder
    Ridder Aero Media
    2022
    English
    X X X X X
    159 pg.
    ISBN 978-90-90-35771-3
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    Dirk Jan de Ridder is addicted to aviation photography and that delivered him beautiful pictures. Since he was 7, when he visited an aviation show at Gilze Rijen for the first time, he is ‘sold’ to aviation and more specific and foremost, military aviation. Throughout the years he makes trips to 23 different countries all over the world, which supplied him with pictures of planes and helicopters from 71 countries! Dirk Jan now decided to unite the most beautiful
    ones in a book.