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
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
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
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
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
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