Book Reviews

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  • Say when and how

    Say when and how
    Martin Leeuwis
    Martin Leeuwis Publication
    2011
    English
    X X X X X
    978-94-90008-05-5

    Again a nice book, published by Martin Leeuwis. Compared to ‘Please wait to be seated’, this book contains not only cartoons but also a very large number of funny and short  ‘pieces of text’ that describe all sorts of developments and issues in aviation such as the ‘thrilling life of an airline pilot’ ; ‘development […]

  • Sea Harrier Over The Falklands

    Sea Harrier Over The Falklands
    Commander “Sharkey” Ward
    Orion Publishing Co
    2000
    English
    X X X X X X
    978-0304355426

    No trudge novel but again a real ‘aviation book’ for the night table! In my search for good books that cause your heart beating faster, I bought ‘Sea Harrier Over The Falklands’ of Commander ‘Sharkey’ Ward. The book is about the use of the then brand-new Sea Harrier in the conflict around the Falklands in […]

  • Amazing airplanes / Fantastische vliegtuigen

    Amazing airplanes / Fantastische vliegtuigen
    Gaby Goldsack
    English
    X X X X X
    978-1607101604

    When I recently walked through a bookstore with my little boy of 3 years old, I found this book; “Amazing airplanes ‘! I’ve rarely seen a book so thick with so few pages and so little weight. A nice aviation kids book! It is a book with five themes from aviation. It’s about ‘enterprising pilots’, ‘air […]

  • Vulcan 607

    Vulcan 607
    Rowland White
    Transworld Publishers Ltd
    2007
    English
    X X X X X
    464 pg.
    978-0552152297

    It was last year when I walked at Schiphol Airport on a early morning looking for a newspaper. If you can only buy the Dutch Telegraph that is not really a choice I thought. At that moment my eye fell on an English book with a picture of a Vulcan-aircraft on the front ; Җulcan […]

  • Lock on No1 F-104/ No2 F-16

    Lock on No1 F-104/ No2 F-16
    Verlinden
    Verlinden Publications
    English
    X X X X X
    90 70932 01 6/90 70932 03 2

    Jesus, that was long ago! These booklets were issued in 1983 and 1984. Already almost 30 years old, but still so beautiful that I had to write about them. The books are not too thick and actually written for fanatic modellers. The books contain lots of photos of all the details of the F-104 Starfighter […]

  • The lost Squadron / Het verdwenen squadron

    The lost Squadron / Het verdwenen squadron
    David Hayes
    1994
    English, Dutch
    X X X X X
    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

    The crisis after the crisis/ Faro: de ramp na de ramp- van slachtoffer naar probleem
    Cor ten Hove
    Reed business
    English, Dutch
    X X X X X
    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
    X X X X X X
    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

    Please Wait to be seated
    Martin Leeuwis
    English
    X X X X X
    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

    Spitfire-manual 1940
    Dilip Sarkar
    Amberley Publishing
    2010
    English
    X X X X X
    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 […]