Archive for Items Categorized 'Aviation', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
The Trans-Atlantic Pioneers
by Bruce Hales-Dutton
2019 marked the centenary of the first nonstop transatlantic flight. You’d think the world would be awash in books about that—but it’s not! Good thing this is a fine book, albeit bland.
MiG-29 in PAF
by Marek Radomski
Not a model history but a collection of color plates to show modelers what the Fulcrum looked like in its 20-year tour of duty with the Polish Air Force.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Last of the Flying Clippers: The Boeing B-314 Story
by M.D. Klaäs
For the few years these magnificent flying boats operated they raised the bar—and putting the “air” into transatlantic airmail is only of the things Pan Am’s famous B-314 clippers were the first to accomplish.
Big Wings: The Largest Aeroplanes Ever Built
by Philip Kaplan
Splendidly illustrated with not only aircraft “stuff,” this book takes a sometimes nostalgic and always sympathetic look at two dozen big birds.
I Kept No Diary
by F.R. (Rod) Banks
If your motor requires high octane fuel it probably has high compression. Banks is the man who championed this technology—and a thousand other things—which is probably why he had no time to keep a diary. He was 80 when he wrote this book, and still working!
The Curtiss Hydroaeroplane: The U.S. Navy’s First Airplane 1911–1916
by Bob Woodling and Taras Chayka
The story of the first truly successful seaplane is here told against the backdrop of the all-important human factor: how people find each other, work together, and make the sum greater than its parts.
UFO Drawings From The National Archives
by David Clarke
Some say The Truth is Out There. Even if it is, so is a whole load of other stuff. Fake news is not news! This delightfully left-field book shows how the UFO phenomenon has been a rich seam mined by a diversity of Britons, ranging from the self-delusional to the unsettlingly sane.
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