C-141 Starlifter - Lockheed's Cold War Strategic Airlifter by John Gourley
$45.00 NZD
Category: Aviation | Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation Ser.
The Lockheed C-141 Starlifter was a new-build design by Lockheed and proved adaptable to many roles, from carrying outsized cargo to dropping paratroops. The C-141 was used in difficult environmental conditions, such as the heat and extreme humidity of Vietnam, the deserts of the Middle East, and the fr ...Show more
Topgun Lessons From the Sky by Fletcher McKenzie
$34.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
This book aims to share lessons from the U.S. Navy, inspired by TOPGUN – the air combat school.In TOPGUN Lessons From The Sky, we seek to understand how the aviation industry can learn from the mistakes made by naval aviators and crew, so that we can all become safer pilots. Do you want to be the pilot ...Show more
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes
$49.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air, and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly u ...Show more
The Men Who Flew the Halifax by Martin W. Bowman
$69.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
This is the story of the air war over Western Europe, much of it told by the Halifax pilots and air crew who took part. It spans the period between 1942 and 1945 and covers the encounters between the Luftwaffe and the air forces of Britain and the Commonwealth.Many unique experiences are recounted conce ...Show more
A Spitfire Girl - One of the World's Greatest Female ATA Ferry Pilots Tells Her Story by Mary Ellis; Melody Foreman
$44.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
We visualise dashing and daring young men as the epitome of the pilots of the Second World War, yet amongst that elite corps was one person who flew no less than 400 Spitfires and seventy-six different types of aircraft and that person was Mary Wilkins.Her story is one of the most remarkable and endeari ...Show more
Luftwaffe Eagle - A WW2 German Airman's Story by Erich Sommer (Introduction by)
$35.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
In this compelling memoir, Erich Sommer recalls his life in pre-war Germany and the adventures he had flying for the Luftwaffe during the Second World War. Born in 1912, the third son of a district court judge, Erich grew up in an atmosphere of uncertainty following the First World War. In 1932 he start ...Show more
British Aircraft of the Second World War by John Frayn Turner
$59.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
This unique book, now republished, was the first of its kind to be published on British aircraft of the Second World War. Aviation enthusiasts and aero-modelers can see British aircraft as they really were, through magnificently reproduced color photographs. Each of the forty-nine types of aircraft is a ...Show more
History of Flight: From the Flying Machine of Leonardo da Vinci to the Conquest of the Space by Riccardo Niccoli
$79.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
"History of Flight. From the Flying Machine of Leonardo da Vinci to the Conquest of the Space" is a book dedicated to the history of human flight, ranging from the first, uncertain attempts of the medieval period to the most advanced operations, such as the Space Shuttle, convertiplanes, the unmanned ai ...Show more
20th Century Passenger Flying Boats by Leslie Dawson
$64.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
From Henri Fabre's first successful take off from water and landing near Marseilles, to the introduction of a hull rather than floats by American Glenn Curtiss, to the world-wide development of huge, ocean-crossing flying boats on both sides of the Atlantic, the passenger flying boat era continues to fa ...Show more
Lancaster: The Forging of a Very British Legend by John Nichol
$26.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
'The epic story of an iconic aircraft and the breathtaking courage of those who flew her' Andy McNab, bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero 'Compelling, thrilling and rooted in quite extraordinary human drama' James Holland, author of Normandy 44 From John Nichol, the Sunday Times bestselling author of S ...Show more
On The Wings Of History : Volume One The Beginning Of The Vintage Aviator Collection by Allan Udy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aviation
Over the past two decades the Second World War fighter aircraft of the Alpine Fighter Collection have been the mainstay of the world renown Warbirds Over Wanaka airshows. What many enthusiasts don't know (yet) is that for the past ten years there has been a collection of even older warbird aircraft quie ...Show more