Archive for Author 'Sabu Advani', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.

Stanguellini: Big Little Racing Cars

by Luigi Orsini and Franco Zagari

Automobili Stanguellini was a maker of small racing and road cars in Modena, Italy. Modena, of course, is known as the home of Ferrari and Maserati but did you realize that they and Stanguellini had their premises all within the same square mile? Stanguellini, in fact, is older than the other two.

The Cars of Pullman

by Joe Welsh, Bill Howes, Kevin J Holland

Hotels on wheels—incorporated in 1867 as the Pullman Palace Car Company, New York cabinetmaker George Mortimer Pullman’s eponymous railroad cars crisscrossed North America for 102 years. They became a household word, so much so that especially sleeping cars were often generically referred to as Pullmans regardless of who made or ran them.

Jet Engines: Fundamentals of Theory, Design and Operation

by Klaus Hünecke

This is the English edition of a book that first appeared in German in 1987. Following his own academic training the author worked as a university researcher and then joined industry as an aerodynamicist, working in first the military and currently the civilian sector.

The Maserati 300S

by Walter Bäumer

Hard to imagine that there’s a living to be made being a full-time Maserati historian but that’s just what German photographer and car enthusiast Walter Bäumer decided to do in 2003. Incidentally, he also is the editor of the German Maserati Club’s excellent magazine Der Dreizack (The Trident).

The Roycean: From Manchester to Crewe, via Derby – Vol. 1

The Roycean is a new annual journal containing scholarly articles on the history of Rolls-Royce and (Derby- and Crewe-built) Bentley motorcars up to the 1960s, as well as articles on coachbuilders, dealers, the personalities involved with the cars, individual models of the cars made, and interesting owners.

A Century of Carrier Aviation: The Evolution of Ships and Shipborne Aircraft

by David Hobbs

Naval Aviators have a reputation for thinking they’re the cat’s meow. This book looks at the hardware and the environmental factors that make their jobs so challenging.

Alpine & Renault, The Sports Prototypes Vols 1 & 2

by Roy Smith

Following his previous book about the Alpine & Renault Turbo F1 car Smith takes a look at a very different animal by the same maker/s in this two-volume set: the Sports Prototypes from 1963–1978.

Grand Prix Showdown!

The Full Drama of Every Championship-Deciding Grand Prix Since 1950

by Christopher Hilton

A nail-biter! You do not have to be a petrol head or F1 groupie to become totally engrossed in this book! But you do have to have a sufficiently long attention span to follow the written word, not skip ahead, and take time to savor the drama the author so purposefully built into his story arc.

The Battle of Britain

by Kate Moore

You could go broke buying every single book about the Battle of Britain, and blind reading them all. This one is easy on the wallet, easy on they eyes, and a well-rounded overview. This book’s particular appeal lies in the sensitive weaving together of individual human voices and the maelstrom of history.

100 Years of Flight, A Chronicle of Aerospace History 1903–2003

by Frank H Winter & F. Robert van der Linden

Published by the two most prestigious institutions in the field, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, this compendium chronicles in timeline fashion the century of endeavor since the Wright Brothers’ first heavier-than-air flight in 1903.

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

by Steve Pace

Being able to travel at an altitude of 16 miles and cover 33 miles a minute is an unmatched achievement for a manned airplane even today, some 50 years after someone first dreamt up the Blackbird. Among its many records is the faster-ever New York London time (1974): 1:54:56 hrs which translates to 1806.96 mph!

Flying the SR-71 Blackbird: In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission

In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission

by Col. Richard H. Graham

As aircraft historian Jay Miller rightly says in his Foreword, this book is the “missing link” in the existing literature on the Blackbird, “arguably the most significant aircraft of our time.”

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