Spitfire Summer by Malcolm Brown
$16.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
A gripping account of Britain's experience of 1940: the year we stood alone against the victorious Nazi war machine fresh from its blitzkrieg victories in Poland and France. Based on existing Imperial War Museum archives, this book tells the story of our island's finest hour through the first-hand accou ...Show more
Stars of the Sky by Ann Cooper
$55.00 NZD
Category: Aviation
DoP 2008, UK New Zealand content Women have been taking to the air almost form the start, despite the full force of convention and prejudice against them. "Stars of the Sky" celebrates the wildly daring, the pioneering, and implacably determined women who have made their mark on aviation history. Fifty ...Show more
Higher: 100 Years of Boeing by Russ Banham
$75.00 NZD
Category: Aviation
Over the course of a century, the Boeing Company has grown from a small outfit operating out of a converted boathouseâproducing a single pontoon plane made from canvas and woodâinto the world's largest aerospace company. The thrilling story of the celebrated organization is one filled with ambition, ...Show more
Silver Spitfire - The Longest Flight by Matt Jones; Benjamin Uttley; Lachlan Munro
$84.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
The recovery and renovation of a Second World War Spitfire to museum standards is always a special event. To then restore it to flying status is an even greater accomplishment. If that was the whole story of The Sliver Spitfire this would still be a worthy subject for a book - but this Spitfire, MJ271, ...Show more
When the Coast Is Clear by R.J. Waugh
$34.90 NZD
Category: Aviation
The story of New Zealand's first and most unique licensed scheducled air service, South Westland 1934-1967, proving the relevance of aviation to the nation.
Strait Across - The Pioneering Story of Cook Strait Aviation by Richard Waugh & Graeme McConnell & David Phillips
$34.90 NZD
Category: Aviation | Reading Level: very good
Published by Richard Waugh in conjunction with the Cook Strait Air Service Celebration Committee. Cook Strait is New Zealand's great natural divide. This book tells how aviation conquered the barrier of rough water bringing communication and economic benefits of national significance. The first flig ...Show more
The Spitfire: Icon of a nation by Ivan Rendall
$39.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
Designed to be the best fighter in the world the creators of the Spitfire married science, technology and art to create both 'a thing of beauty' and a deadly weapon that changed the course of the war. 'You don't just strap yourself in, you buckle the Spitfire on, like girding on armour...'Squadron Leade ...Show more
The Concorde Story by Christopher Orlebar
$75.00 NZD
$79.99 (6% off)
Category: Aviation
This fully revised edition of "The Concorde Story", published to coincide with the anniversary of the first landing at Heathrow, is a complete history of Concorde. When commercial air services were launched in 1976, Concorde was hailed as one of the wonders of the technological world. Lavishly illustrat ...Show more
Aviation: The Early Years by Peter Almond
$44.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
Aviation--The Early Years chronicles the first years of man-powered flight in photographs, from the end of the last century to the era of the great Zeppelins, and shows us in numerous marvellous pictures the story of the pioneers and adventurers who extended the boundaries of human achievement.
Distant Thunder by Don Harward
$19.99 NZD
$55.00 (63% off)
Category: Aviation
Distant Thunder details the engrossing experiences of a helicopter pilot's tales of war told through letters that come straight from the heart. Often the author laboured well into the night after a mission still wearing the dusty flight suit which bore witness to the events he penned. Don Harward was t ...Show more
Boeing Versus Airbus: The Inside Story of the Greatest International Competition in Business by John Newhouse
$37.99 NZD
Category: Aviation | Series: Vintage
The commercial airline industry is one of the most volatile, dog-eat-dog enterprises in the world, and in the late 1990s, Europe's Airbus overtook America's Boeing as the preeminent aircraft manufacturer. However, Airbus quickly succumbed to the same complacency it once challenged, and Boeing regained i ...Show more