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• The Panavia Tornado: A Photographic Tribute

  
  Michael Leek

  Pen and Sword Books

  2015

  English

  

  245 pg.

  9781781592977
  Review written by: Max Heldring

  This photobook with in total 245 pages contains 229 pages with photographs of the historical backbone of the RAF that entered service in 1981 and at this very moment is still flying in one remaining squadron, namely the Panavia Tornado. The Tornado was also operated in different executions by the German, Italian and Saudi Arabic […]

• Average A Training Diary

  
  Trevor Edwards

  EDD Industries

  2015

  English

  

  190 pg.

  978-0-9932785-0-1
  Review written by: Max Heldring

  After an intensive pilot training of 3 years in the RAF the author is stationed as a fighter pilot in an operational squadron. About this training period and the first year with the 54th squadron of the RAF as a fighter pilot on the Sepecat Jaguar the author wrote a diary with the most important […]

• Wings: Typhoon

  
  Tom Palmer and illustrated by David Shephard

  Barrington Stoke

  2016

  English

  

  105 pg.

  978-1-78112-537-3

  My daughter had books to read from school, so I made time to read this children book myself…. Two sisters, Maddie and Jess, play soccer on the last day of a summer soccer camp. Jess can easily shoot at goal but is totally distracted by an after burner of a Typhoon from the base nearby […]

• Bob Schreiner 1915-1994 Luchtvaartpionier

  
  Arnoud Schreiner

  Arnoud Schreiner

  2016

  Dutch

  

  216 pg.

  978-90-824919-0-6
  Review written by: Rene Verjans

  Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

• An Aviatior’s Journey- Tales of a Corporate Pilot

  
  Ivan Luciani

  CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

  2015

  English

  

  348 pg.

  978 1515305835
  Review written by: Max Heldring

  The author Ivan Luciani wanted to show his readers by writing an amount of short stories how life of a corporate pilot flying business jets looks like. After a short review of his pilot training, before becoming a professional pilot, he decides that corporate flying is what he wants and he writes what his goals […]

• Ik kan Vliegen

  
  Jeroen Komen

  http://www.aerialmediacom.nl

  2016

  Dutch

  

  143 pg.

  978-94-026-0151-0

  Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

• Juliett Bravo Bravo

  
  René Silbermann

  Zebra

  2016

  Dutch

  

  176 pg.

  -

  Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

• Defector (Phantom Air Combat Book 1)

  
  David Gledhill

  DeeGee Media

  213

  English

  

  345 pg.
  Review written by: Max Heldring

  The story in this book is happening during the Cold War in the eighties when low flying Phantoms of the RAF were cruising the West German airspace. It is an aviation thriller in which a Phantom crew and a defected Sovjet test pilot fill up the leading role. Most aviation books I read are nonfiction […]

• Review A Soul in the Wires Book 2: The Hollywood Years

  
  Walter Leigh

  Amazon Digital Services LLC

  2016

  English

  

  267 pg.

  978-94-92-269112
  Review written by: Max Heldring

  Jonathan Price, a traumatized World War I pilot returns from the horror in France and tries to start a life at his parent’s ranch in Nebraska. Restless and looking for ‘more’ in life, together with his young wife Peggy he picks up the dream of aviation barnstormers. They fly all over the Mid-West of the […]

• Wings: FLYBOY

  
  Tom Palmer

  Barrington Stoke

  2016

  English

  

  88 pg.

  978-1-78112-535-9

  A book for children (8-18 yrs); of course you will let that one be read and reviewed by your daughter! ‘Funny’, ‘different’ and ‘unexpected’ my daughter called this book. It is namely not a story that you will read every day. It is a book for children and adolescents, but of course can also be […]