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
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes
$26.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
'Nominally a history of the hot air balloon, 'Falling Upwards' is really a history of hope and fantasy - and the quixotic characters who disobeyed that most fundamental laws of physics and gave humans flight' New Republic, Best Books of 2013 CHOSEN AS BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR IN ** Guardian ** New Statesm ...Show more
P-51 Mustang Vs Fw 190 by Bowman Martin
$39.99 NZD
Category: Aviation | Series: Duel
Discover the history of a classic duel as the finest American and German pilots were pitted against each other in the war-torn skies over Europe. The P-51 personified the might of the Eighth Air Force's fighter strength in the latter years of World War II. Their opposition were the pilots of the Fw 190 ...Show more
The Mammoth Book of Air Disasters and Near Misses by Paul Simpson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Aviation | Series: Mammoth Books
An incredible 30,000 flights - at least - arrive safely at their destinations every day. But a handful don't, while some come terrifyingly close to crashing. When even the smallest thing does go wrong at 35,000 feet, the result is nearly always a fast-unfolding tragedy. This extensive collection of comp ...Show more
Phantom Boys: True Tales from UK Operators of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 by Richard Pike
$55.00 NZD
Category: Aviation
From Richard Pike, best-selling author of Hunter Boys and The Lightning Boys volumes, comes the newest addition to Grub Streetâ__s popular Boys series; Phantom Boys. Originally developed for the US Navy, this twin-engined supersonic long-range fighter-bomber first flew in the spring of 1958. It then ent ...Show more
Flights of No Return: Aviation History's Most Infamous One-Way Tickets to Immortality by Steven A. Ruffin
$49.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
Discover the mysterious, controversial, and sometimes downright eerie history of flights that didn't end as planned. The history of aviation is full of accounts of history's most spectacular flights. But what about the ones from which someone failed to return? - A celebrated millionaire--who also happen ...Show more
The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindberg, and the Epic Age of Flight by Winston Groom
$35.00 NZD
Category: Aviation
This is the fascinating story of three extraordinary heroes who defined aviation during the great age of flight. These cleverly interwoven tales of their heart-stopping adventures take us from the feats of World War I through the heroism of World War II and beyond, including daring military raids and su ...Show more
The Projects of Skunk Works: 75 Years of Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs by Steve Pace
$55.00 NZD
Category: Aviation
The stories behind more than 50 secret projects undertaken by the famed Lockheed Martin Skunk Works on behalf of the US Armed Forces, DARPA, and the CIA - all illustrated with official Skunk Works photography and commissioned artworks.Hatched in June 1943 after a special request of the US Army Air Force ...Show more
The Flight: Charles Lindbergh's 1927 Trans-Atlantic Crossing by Dan Hampton
$32.99 NZD
Category: Aviation | Reading Level: General Adult
A gripping and unique "in-the-cockpit" account of Charles Lindbergh's extraordinary first transatlantic flight from New York to Paris, by acclaimed aviation historian (Viper Pilot, Lords of the Sky) and former fighter pilot Dan Hampton--"one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history" (New York P ...Show more
Fast Jets and Other Beasts: Personal Insights from the Cockput of the Hunter, Phantom, Jaguar, Tornado and Many More by Ian Hall
$49.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
Over a thirty-two-year military flying career which spanned a period when the RAF regularly replaced its fighter/bombers, Ian Hall had seven front-line flying tours on five different types. His story starts in Bahrain in the early 1970s, just before the massive contraction that saw the RAF withdraw from ...Show more