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• A-10 Thunderbolt II Units of Operation Enduring Freedom 2008-14

  
  Gary Wetzel

  Osprey Publishing

  2015

  English

  

  96 pg.

  9781472805737 / 9781472805751
  Review written by: Pedro Blas Gonzalez

  A-10 Thunderbolt II Units of Operation Enduring Freedom 2008-14    Gary Wetzel’s A-10 Thunderbolt II Units of Operation Enduring Freedom 2008-14 is another of Osprey Publishing’s wonderful aviation history books. These books contain high-quality photographs and clear text, often consisting of compelling narratives from pilots. In addition, one of the great features of this book […]

• F9F Panther Units of the Korean War

  
  Warren Thompson

  Osprey Publishing

  2014

  English

  

  96 pg.

  978-17800-350
  Review written by: Pedro Blas Gonzalez

  Review F9F Panther Units of the Korean War- Warren Thompson The end of World War II saw the defeat of German national socialism and the propping up of international communism, which spread from the Soviet Union. Even though international communism had been a reality since the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks created a […]

• Fly Over Down Under- Australian Adventures by Single-Engine Airplane

  
  Michelee Morgan Cabot

  Wheatmark

  2015

  English

  

  230 pg.

  ISBN-10: 1627873015 ISBN-13: 978-1627873017
  Review written by: Max Heldring

  206th Review Fly Over Down Under- Australian Adventures by Single-Engine Airplane- Michelee Morgan Cabot Michelee Cabot made a dairy of her 4 weekly roundtrip along the whole coast of Australia together with her husband Hal flying a Cessna 172.  They started the trip with 4 single engine GA planes supervised by a very experienced pilot […]

• My Heart at Zero Gravity: A Girl, A Plane and Their Story

  
  Carolina Dellonte

  Cartabianca Publishing

  2018

  English

  

  212 pg.

  ASIN: B07G9VK2KJ
  Review written by: Max Heldring

  The story in this book starts when Carolina is checked out on a Piaggio P-180, a business jet we al know from its special design with 2 push props and the canard wings in front of the cockpit. After that Carolina tells her personal story and adventures during her time serving as a co-pilot flying […]

• EAGLES OVER HUSKY. THE ALLIED AIR FORCES IN THE SICILIAN CAMPAIGN, 14 MAY TO 17 AUGUST 1943

  
  Alexander Fitzgerald-Black

  Helion & Company Ltd

  2018

  English

  

  192 pg.

  978-1-9122174-94-2
  Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

  Operation Husky was the title for the first joint executed British-American landing operation, at which the navy, aviation and land forces of both countries cooperated. In short: the word ‘us’ had to be replaced by ‘we’. A joint commando and cooperative army forces were then not yet that obvious. You do not become a general […]

• A-3 Skywarrior: Units of the Vietnam War

  
  Rick Morgan

  Osprey Publishing

  2015

  English

  

  96 pg.

  ISBN-10: 147280564X ISBN-13: 978-1472805645
  Review written by: Pedro Blas Gonzalez

  The Vietnam War initiated the expansion and diversification of United States air power. After World War II and the Korean War, the U.S. military saw the need to create “heavy attack” bombers capable of being launched from aircraft carriers – which were becoming larger at the time. A-3 Skywarrior: Units of the Vietnam War is […]

• The B-58 Blunder: How the U.S. Abandoned its Best Strategic Bomber

  
  Colonel George Holt, Jr.

  George Holt Jr.

  2015

  English

  

  140 pg.

  ISBN-10: 0692478817 ISBN-13: 978-0692478813
  Review written by: Pedro Blas Gonzalez

  I first saw a picture of the Convair B-58 Hustler in C.B. Colby’s 1966 book Jets of the World: New Fighters, Bombers and Transports. I discovered the book in the library of Buena Vista Elementary school. The year was 1972 and I was in the second grade. As best as I recall, the library had […]

• VC10: Icon of the Skies

  
  Lance Cole

  Pen and Sword Books

  2017

  English

  

  224 pg.

  9781473875326
  Review written by: Max Heldring

  With the VC-10 in the main role this book describes with thorough arguments the downfall of the British aircraft industry. The story started in the post war years when BOAC was ruling the skies specifically in the British colonies in Africa. BOAC was looking for the ultimate jetliner that could handle the difficult British and European […]

• Orville Wright: How We Invented the Airplane

  
  Orville Wright (edited by Fred C. Kelly)

  Dover Publications Inc.

  1988

  English

  

  96 pg.

  ISBN10 0486256626 ISBN13 9780486256627
  Review written by: Pedro Blas Gonzalez

  Huffman Prairie is an isolated, quiet place eight miles outside of Dayton, Ohio. The field takes its name from a banker named Torrance Huffman who owned the cow pasture at the time the Wright brothers flew the Wright Flyer III, the aircraft that proved that controlled flight was possible. The field is vast. Wilbur and […]

• Flying Conquistadors

  
  Michael Scott Bertrand

  North Loop Books

  2017

  English

  

  468 pg.

  ISBN-10: 1635053765 ISBN-13: 978-1635053760
  Review written by: Max Heldring

  Flying Conquistadors! …The adventures of Oliver Wheelock in this reading work of fiction are situated in the beginning of the 1930’s, the years in which aviation started to become professional. Oliver starts his working career as a youngster with Pan American working from an airport in the south of Florida in the first year of […]