Archive for Author 'Sabu Advani', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Queen of the Skies: The Lockheed Constellation
by Claude G. Luisada
Even almost a decade after its publication, this book still matters—and it comes with a Lockheed Manual on CD that you’d rarely find even at auction.
OAL-BB 50
by Paolo Tumminelli (editor)
Having been closely associated for half a century, Alpina and BMW are almost synonymous. This book is a lighthearted but entirely substantive look at what really puts the “ultimate” into The Ultimate Driving Machine.
Lockheed Constellation: A History
by Graham M. Simons
The dolphin-shaped fuselage looked like no other. The triple tail made it instantly recognizable. It remained useful decades after jet airliners pushed it out of mainline service. There should be piles of books about it—but there aren’t. This is a good one.
Formula 1: All The Races – The First 1000
by Roger Smith
That this book about 1000 races is limited to 1000 numbered copies is of course merely to be cute—but it is a crying shame. Bristling with data but eminently user-friendly it deserves much wider circulation!
Abarth: Racing Cars – Collection 1949–1974
by Franz Steinbacher
This is a look at a highly curated Swiss collection of mostly racing Abarths, and in telling their story the book also gives a good idea of what made the cars and the company so special.
Balloons and Airships: A Tale of Lighter Than Air Aviation
by Anthony Burton
What huge advantage does an LTA craft have still today? Range. This old story has a future, and every now and then a new book comes along to bring us current.
The Royal Navy in Action, Art from Dreadnought to Vengeance
by John Fairley
Warships in action are something fierce to behold, and even paintings reproduced at a size so much smaller than the often majestic originals stir the soul. Throw in some well crafted prose and you have a book you won’t want to put down.
Sunbeam Aero Engines
by Alec Brew
Within the arc from tinplate working to land speed record cars fall many interim steps, and this small book gives a thorough account of how Sunbeam got into the aero engine business and how that spilled over into record cars.
P&O: Across the Oceans, Across the Years
by Ruth Artmonsky and Susie Cox
After 175 years of plying the seas, there’s a story to be had. From paddle steamers hauling mail to today’s cruise ships, P&O made the world a smaller place. This fantastically well illustrated book will absorb you.
BMW Motorcycles: 100 Years
by Alan Dowds
The book delivers just what the title promises but what makes it unusual is that the author, a motorcycle journalist no less, was initially a BMW skeptic, making his full-throated endorsement all the more worthy of consideration.
Spanish Republican Aces
by Rafael A. Permuy López
Spain’s 1936–1939 Civil War was a complicated affair—and not discussed for decades after. One small aspect of it, the aircraft flown by foreign and Spanish pilots on the socialist Republican side supported by Russia, is presented here.
Rick Mears—Thanks: The Story of Rick Mears and the Mears Gang
by Gordon Kirby
Few drivers have won the Indy 500 four times. Mears has—and more than once did he get within reach of another win. He spent his entire 15-year career with one team, and remained there longer than that after his retirement. What makes him so unusual?
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