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• The lost Squadron / Het verdwenen squadron

  
  David Hayes

  1994

  English, Dutch

  

  244 pg.

  0747518262

  I was tipped to read this this book and I got no regrets! This book by David Hayes from 1994 is an easily readable and fascinating story, combined with many beautiful color and black / white photographs. It tells the story of a search for eight missing WW2-aircraft in Greenland. The story begins on July […]

• The crisis after the crisis/ Faro: de ramp na de ramp- van slachtoffer naar probleem

  
  Cor ten Hove

  Reed business

  English, Dutch

  

  313 pg.

  90 5850 495 6

  December 21, 1992: Disaster strikes Faro, Portugal. A Dutch Martinair DC-10(owned by the Dutch Airforce and operated by Martinair) crashes at the airport leaving many passengers and crew members dead or wounded. Cor ten Hove, the author of this book, is a passenger on that plane. He survives, but his life will never be the […]

• Baling Out

  Robert Jackson

  Pen & Sword Books Ltd

  2006

  English

  

  192 pg.

  978 1 84415 347 3

  It’s as if the devil is playing with it, but even now when I ‘just’ pulled ‘an-nice-looking-book’ off the bookshelf somewhere, it again appears to be …..is another great book. Maybe you think I am having shares of this publisher, but that’s not the fact I can assure you! This book is about the development […]

• Please Wait to be seated

  
  Martin Leeuwis

  English

  

  978-94-90008-00-0

  Please Wait to be seated- Martin Leeuwis Publications Humor! Humor and again humor. That combined with aviation makes ‘Aviation humor’! This is an A5-sized edition of Martin Leeuwis Publications from 2011 and from the beginning to the end full of cartoons by 30 artists from around the world. Martin earlier released books with cartoons and […]

• Spitfire-manual 1940

  
  Dilip Sarkar

  Amberley Publishing

  2010

  English

  

  288 pg.

  978-1-84868-436-2

  What is the most famous aircraft in aviation history? Many people will say ‘the Spitfire’. And who would not want to fly himself in a Spitfire?!… start for this moment with this Spitfire manual from Dilip Sarkar! Dilip Sarkar has been a Spitfire fanatic for many years and the energy which thus arose is converted […]

• The battle of Britain / De slag om Engeland

  
  Edward Bishop

  Just Publishers

  2008

  English, Dutch

  

  192 pg.

  978 90 77895 70 2

  Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

• The Sky My Kingdom - Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot

  
  Hanna Reitsch

  Casemate Books

  2011

  English

  

  272 pg.

  978-1-932033-97-7

  It was the memorable book ‘They went into the air as angels with homesickness – nostalgia.’ From Jan Jacobs Mulder in which I read for the first time about Hanna Reitsch (see my previous book discussions). Next in another book and thus I had to know more about this woman. Who was Hanna? Hanna was […]

• Inside the sky: A Mediation on Flight / Tussen de wolken

  
  William Langewiesche

  2003

  Dutch, English

  

  215 pg.

  0679429832

  Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

• Guilty by association / De vliegende Hollander

  
  Rudi Dekkers

  2008

  English

  

  272 pg.

  0982668732

  I was walking into a bookstore (enslaved as I am) looking one or more interesting books. I bought two! In this book review I will discuss one of them, ‘The Flying Dutchman’ by Rudi Dekkers. This book was published in Dutch in 2008. In the English language, he published in 2011 the book ‘Guilty by […]

• Alles over vliegtuigen

  
  Andrea Erne

  ANWB

  2004

  English, Dutch

  

  9018019135

  Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.