Archive for Items Categorized 'Aviation', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Concorde (Beniada)
by Frederic Beniada & Michel Fraile
Spectacularly large photos of a spectacularly high-flying plane at a spectacularly low price! It is a tribute to the plane and the people who built and crewed it, not an all-inclusive nuts and bolts history.
The Engines of Pratt & Whitney: A Technical History
by Jack Connors
The title of the book may not be showstopper but the book is commendable on all counts that matter to a reader: it is written in an uncommonly engaging style, introduces new material to the record, makes it easy for the reader new to the subject to develop an interest in it.
Peace was Their Profession—Strategic Air Command: A Tribute
by Mike Hill, John M. Campbell & Donna Campbell
The title is derived from the Strategic Air Command’s motto “Peace is Our Profession” which insiders—who have earned the right—often amend to include “War is Our Hobby.” An alternate version is “Peace Through Strength—Victory Through Devastation.”
Box Top Air Power: The Aviation Art of Model Airplane Boxes
by Thomas Graham
This book presents about 170 examples of [a] “exemplary works” (in other words not everything under the sun) that [b] the author deems “artistically superior” (read: other people may have made other choices) of [c] predominantly US model kit makers (for European/Japanese kits look elsewhere).
Celebration of Flight, The Aviation Art of Roy Cross
by Roy Cross with Arthur Ward
Since retiring from his freelance job as chief box-top designer for Airfix plastic kits, British artist/illustrator and writer Roy Cross has made a big splash, especially in the US, as a marine artist whose fine-art oils easily command $50,000 nowadays.
Profiles of Flight: V Bombers Vulcan, Valiant and Victor
by Dave Windle, Martin Bowman
Unlike the multitude of often look-alike car models there are many fewer models of airplanes, few enough to be easily recognizable on sight. Among the bombers, the three featured in this book are especially distinctive.
Alan Bristow, Helicopter Pioneer: The Autobiography
by Alan Bristow and Patrick Malone
Even if helicopters are not your thing, read this book for the sheer audaciousness of its protagonist. If you have an interest in (British) politics, realize that it is Bristow’s role in the “Westland Affair” that embarrassed the Thatcher government and almost caused its fall.
R-2800, P&W’s Dependable Masterpiece
by Graham White
There are many storied aircraft engines, some indelibly associated with events that changed world history and thus known to the proverbial “man in the street.” White explains here why, in terms of manufacturing, performance, and maintenance, Pratt & Whitney’s R-2800 is “the finest aircraft engine ever produced.” \
Pegasus, The Heart of the Harrier
by Andrew Dow
Being one of the most innovative gas turbine aircraft engines ever developed, it is gratifying to see a book dedicated to the Rolls-Royce Pegasus, arguably the world’s first successful VTOL aircraft engine. VTOL has been an aviation goal for decades with many failures along the way.
Ferdinand Porsche, Genesis of Genius: Road, Racing and Aviation Innovation 1900 to 1933
by Karl Ludvigsen
For a paltry $100 you are getting a veritable education in matters political, economical, scientific, and psychological. It isn’t just about a precocious youth and ambitious engineer, but about the world and times he lived in.
A Drive in the Clouds: The Story of the Aerocar
by Jake Schultz
All too often writers of transportation articles and books do a fine job of telling the automotive/train/plane story, but fall short when trying to convey the human side. Not Schultz.
100 Years of Brooklands: The Birthplace of British Motorsport & Aviation
by Allan Winn and John Pulford
Commissioned by the Brooklands Museum on the occasion of the famed circuit’s centenary in 2007, this book tells its story mainly in photos divided into three main sections by type of motivation—cars, motorcycles, and aircraft
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