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
SR-71: The Complete Illustrated History of the Blackbird, The World's Highest, Fastest Plane by Richard H. Graham
$27.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
Flying to a coffee table near you comes the new paperback edition of this authoritative and illustrated history of the most mind-bending military aircraft ever flown! Developed by the renowned Lockheed Skunk Works, the SR-71 was an awesome aircraft in every respect, setting world records for altitude an ...Show more
Frank Whittle: Invention of the Jet by Andrew Nahum
$24.99 NZD
Category: Aviation | Series: Icon Science Ser.
Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment in 1943 when his invention was unveiled to the world, his company, Power Jets, was forcibly nationalised. Yet, as Andrew Nahum shows in this brilliantly researched book, Whittle's innovative brillia ...Show more
Buccaneer Boys - True Tales by Those Who Flew the 'Last All-British Bomber' by Graham Pitchfork
$35.00 NZD
Category: Aviation | Series: The\Jet Age Ser.
Twenty-four aircrew who flew the iconic aircraft with the Fleet Air Arm, the Royal Air Force and the South African Air Force (SAAF) relate their experiences and affection for the Blackburn Buccaneer. Arranged in chronological order, the book traces the history of the aircraft and the tasks it fulfilled. ...Show more
Courage in the Skies: The untold story of Qantas, its brave men and women and their extraordinary role in World War II by Jim Eames
$24.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
This is the extraordinary and little known story of Qantas' significant role during World War II, particularly in its campaigns against the Japanese.
The Hunt for MH370 by Ean Higgins
$37.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
Somewhere out in the wild seas of the southern Indian Ocean, in the underwater canyons of Broken Ridge near the alien sub-terrain known as the Seventh Arc lies the answer to the world's greatest aviation mystery.Why, on the night of 8 March 2014, did Malaysia Flight MH370 suddenly U-turn on the trip fro ...Show more
Flight: The Evolution of Aviation by Stephen Woolford; Carl Warner
$45.00 NZD
Category: Aviation
Witness the daring exploits and dangerous challenges that form the story of flight in this beautifully illustrated book, filled with rare photographs and historical documents. Published in the year that marks 50 years since the first flight of the Boeing 747 and of Concorde, it describes the early pione ...Show more
Many a Close Run Thing - From jet-fighter pilot to airline captain by Tom Enright
$39.99 NZD
Category: Aviation | Reading Level: very good
A New Zealand squadron leader, flying-boat captain and airliner pilot on a life of aerial adventure Though rarely seen above the small sheep farming town called Ranfurly in Central Otago in the 1940s, Tom Enright developed a fascination with planes from an early age. He joined the Royal New Zealand Air ...Show more
P-51 Mustang, Vol. 2 - The d, H, and K Models in World War II and Korea by David Doyle
$45.00 NZD
Category: Aviation | Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation Ser.
Even today, almost eighty years after its first flight, the North American P-51 Mustang remains one of the most famous and recognizable aircraft in the world. Nimble and fast, qualities that lead the Mustang to be used even today in air races, the aircraft was forged in battle. This, the second of two v ...Show more
Spitfire - The Biography by Jonathan Glancey
$24.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
The bestselling biography of the Spitfire updated with a new chapter for the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
Spanz and Their DC-3 Viewmasters by Richard Waugh
$49.95 NZD
Category: Aviation
DoP 2000, NZ A-4 / 148pp SPANZ (South Pacific Airlines of New Zealand) made a big splash in New Zealand's highly regulated aviation environment of the 1960's. this book tells how the airline boldly challenged the air licensing bureaucracy, political establishment and the government owned NAC monopoly of ...Show more
81 Lessons from the Sky - General Aviation by Fletcher McKenzie
$34.99 NZD
Category: Aviation