Spitfire, Vol. 1 - Supermarine's Spitfire Marques I to VII and Seafire Marques I to III by Ron Mackay
$45.00 NZD
Category: Aviation | Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation Ser.
This first of two volumes on the Supermarine Spitfire covers the design, testing, development, and early WWII combat use of the famed British fighter aircraft's initial variants. The Spitfire in its original marques up to the Mk. VII provided a platform that allowed the Royal Air Force to challenge the ...Show more
Lockheed Constellation - A History by Graham M. Simons
$84.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
Clarence 'Kelly' Johnson's design for the Lockheed Constellation, known affectionately as the 'Connie', produced one of the world's most iconic airliners.Lockheed had been working on the L-044 Excalibur, a four-engine, pressurized airliner, since 1937. In 1939, Trans World Airlines, at the instigation o ...Show more
'Young Man - You'll Never Die' - A World War II Fighter Pilot in North Africa, Burma and Malaya by Merton Navdler
$49.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
Merton Naydler joined the RAF at the age of nineteen and served for the next six years until May 1946. He flew Spitfires and Hurricanes during a tour of duty that took him to North Africa, Burma and Malaya. This well written and extremely entertaining memoir portrays wartime life in the desert environme ...Show more
Lightning Boys - True Tales from Pilots of the English Electric Lightning by Richard Pike
$35.00 NZD
Category: Aviation | Series: The\Jet Age Ser.
First published in 2011 to wide acclaim, Lightning Boys is now available in paperback for the first time as part of Grub Street's fantastic new Jet Age Series. In an international study, the Lightning was voted the fifth most popular military aircraft of all time. It has many thousands of devotees who a ...Show more
AV-8B Harrier II - The US Marine Corps' VSTOL Jet Aircraft by Ken Neubeck
$45.00 NZD
Category: Aviation | Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation Ser.
The McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II--vertical/short takeoff and landing (VSTOL)--is the US Marine Corps' current frontline close-air-support aircraft. A variant of the famed British Aerospace Harrier II, the AV-8B is noted for its ability to hover in place, ideal for operating on smaller carriers and ...Show more
Flying Kiwis: A History of the OE by Jude Wilson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Aviation | Reading Level: Very Good
This first book-length history of the OE (Overseas Experience) phenomenon is based on the oral accounts of several hundred New Zealand travellers, representing every decade of the OE and supported by the ephemera of popular culture that surround it, including advertising and overseas media material. Fly ...Show more
Airbus A300/310 - A Legends of Flight Illustrated History by Wolfgang Borgmann
$69.99 NZD
Category: Aviation | Series: Legends of Flight Ser.
By producing the A300--the first twin-jet, wide-body airliner in the world--the European Airbus consortium succeeded in joining the league of leading aircraft makers. The path was both rocky and exciting. Filled with detailed text, including historical, technological, and flight information, as well as ...Show more
Harrier: How To Be a Fighter Pilot by Paul Tremelling
$26.00 NZD
Category: Aviation
A white-knuckle account of life in the dog-eat-dog arena of fighter combatThis is the story of what it takes to make it in fighter combat. In the cockpit or crew room, the pressure is relentless, the humour merciless.It's no place for the faint-hearted.Whether landing on a pitching aircraft carrier deck ...Show more
PBY Catalina - Consolidated's Flying Boat in WWII by David Doyle
$55.00 NZD
Category: Aviation | Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation Ser.
The PBY Catalina, designed and produced by Consolidated Aircraft, whose production was supplemented by that of Boeing Canada, Canadian Vickers, and the Naval Aircraft Factory, was the most widely used flying boat of all time. Developed in the 1930s, the famed patrol bomber was used around the world by t ...Show more
Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose - The Story of the HK-1 Hercules by Graham M. Simons
$49.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
Howard Hughes' life ambition was to make a significant contribution to the field of aviation development. But the monumental folly of his endeavors on the HK-I Hercules meant that he came to be known and remembered to a great extent for all the wrong reasons. The 'Spruce Goose' (a name Hughes detested) ...Show more
Wine, Women and Song - A Spitfire Pilots Story by Doug Brown; Hamish Brown
$60.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Wine, Women and Song is the fabulous account of Doug Brown's war years. The title is named after one of the Spitfire aircraft that Doug flew while he was with 485 NZ Squadron in England.
Spitfire Mark I P9374: The Extraordinary Story of Recovery, Restoration and Flight by Andy Saunders
$59.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
Andy Saunders relates the fascinating story of the recovery of this Battle of France Spitfire Mk1 from the sands of Calais during the early 1980s and its subsequent return to the UK for rebuild and restoration to flying condition. The full history of the airframe from the factory to loss, the aeroplane' ...Show more