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Northsky
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Re: Aviation Books to read

Post by Northsky » Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:48 am

SAC in the UK Just out from Hikoki everything you wanted to know details of deployments etc and great BW and colour photos.

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Re: Aviation Books to read

Post by graham luxton » Tue Nov 26, 2019 2:39 pm

Northsky wrote:
Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:48 am
SAC in the UK Just out from Hikoki everything you wanted to know details of deployments etc and great BW and colour photos.
I'll second that.

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Re: Aviation Books to read

Post by Knife 04 » Tue Nov 26, 2019 4:01 pm

Northsky wrote:
Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:48 am
SAC in the UK Just out from Hikoki everything you wanted to know details of deployments etc and great BW and colour photos.
Hikoki? Do you mean the Crecy one? If so, yes a great book

http://www.crecy.co.uk/sac-in-the-uk
graham luxton wrote:
Tue Nov 26, 2019 2:39 pm
I'll second that.
Did you get your signed copy Graham? We went up to Telford to see Robert at the launch

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Re: Aviation Books to read

Post by tm74sqn » Tue Nov 26, 2019 4:22 pm

Hoping for an unbiased review from Graham - please!
Would be especially interested in errors, omissions, etc.
If it gets Graham's "seal of approval" then I'll put it on my Christmas present list . . . . !

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Re: Aviation Books to read

Post by graham luxton » Tue Nov 26, 2019 4:29 pm

Knife 04 wrote:
Tue Nov 26, 2019 4:01 pm
Northsky wrote:
Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:48 am
SAC in the UK Just out from Hikoki everything you wanted to know details of deployments etc and great BW and colour photos.
Hikoki? Do you mean the Crecy one? If so, yes a great book

http://www.crecy.co.uk/sac-in-the-uk
graham luxton wrote:
Tue Nov 26, 2019 2:39 pm
I'll second that.
Did you get your signed copy Graham? We went up to Telford to see Robert at the launch
Yes Darren, wish I could have gone as well but unfortunately couldn't make it.

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Re: Aviation Books to read

Post by graham luxton » Tue Nov 26, 2019 5:11 pm

tm74sqn wrote:
Tue Nov 26, 2019 4:22 pm
Hoping for an unbiased review from Graham - please!
Would be especially interested in errors, omissions, etc.
If it gets Graham's "seal of approval" then I'll put it on my Christmas present list . . . . !
It certainly gets my "seal of approval" and think it would make a great Christmas present for anyone interested in the history of SAC in the UK. Can't be unbiased as I did contribute a little to it but as this has been my specialist subject for over 5 decades I'd give it 99 out of 100. Got lots of great photo's to drool over!

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Re: Aviation Books to read

Post by tm74sqn » Tue Nov 26, 2019 5:33 pm

Thanks Graham. Have put it on list of presents that my wife can give me at Christmas - putting a new camera on it as well might be a bit problematical . . . . but could be worth a try!

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Re: Aviation Books to read

Post by Ranger » Mon Dec 09, 2019 9:34 am

Received "SAC in the UK" from Crecy. Great book. Can recommend it. :thumbs:

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Re: Aviation Books to read

Post by moonstone_laura » Tue Dec 10, 2019 11:20 am

Can anyone recommend a good book on the F-104 Starfighter? I've trawled through amazon and there's quite a few titles. Ideally I'm looking for a general introduction/overall history of the aircraft but am happily open to more detailed or specific studies. So what book(s) should I buy?

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Re: Aviation Books to read

Post by hanzl » Sun Dec 22, 2019 8:20 am

Laura,
I'd suggest Martin Bowman's Lockheed F-104 Starfighter; A History.The book is a good read as you can expect from this author, but the photographs are very very very bad at times, while the more recent ones are a pure joy to watch.
regards,
Hanzl

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Re: Aviation Books to read

Post by fester » Tue Jan 14, 2020 9:51 pm

I've just finished Shadow Flights by Curtis Peebles.

Well worth a read if cold war reconnaissance is your thing.

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Re: Aviation Books to read

Post by big john » Thu Jan 23, 2020 3:53 pm

The Works Bookshop are having a clearance sale. The Feltham branch had Tornado Boys for just £3 today, They had 3 copies left.
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Re: Aviation Books to read

Post by mudhen15 » Sun Feb 23, 2020 12:06 pm

Recently read 'Fighter Pilot', the memoirs of Robin Old. Great read, including his time in the UK
Also would recommend 'Low Level Hell' by Hugh Mills Jr. Great insight into the OH-6

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Re: Aviation Books to read

Post by SPERX » Sun Feb 23, 2020 1:58 pm

"Command & Control" by Eric Schlosser. Built around the 1980 story of the "dropped wrench" explosion at a Titan 2 ICBM silo in Arkansas, it is an exhaustive story of the attempts, and resistance, to establish effective control and safety mechanism for the US nuclear weapons from 1945 onward. There is also a docu-drama of the same name. Chlling stuff and the book especially shows how close things were............
They can call it what they want
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Re: Aviation Books to read

Post by gizmo437 » Mon Feb 24, 2020 4:22 pm

Thank you for all your recommendations !

Hope there will be an english version for you guys but must have : Northrop NF5, De Historie van de NF5 bij de Koninklijke Luchtmacht (expected Juni 2020)

''the history of the NF5 with NAF''

loved that plane here on EHEH... was in Mil Service @ EHEH when it flew here.

Greetings

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Re: Aviation Books to read

Post by falkeeins » Mon Mar 23, 2020 7:16 pm

moonstone_laura wrote:
Tue Dec 10, 2019 11:20 am
Can anyone recommend a good book on the F-104 Starfighter? I've trawled through amazon and there's quite a few titles. Ideally I'm looking for a general introduction/overall history of the aircraft but am happily open to more detailed or specific studies. So what book(s) should I buy?
better late than never
René Francillon's huge tome published by LeLa Presse - 352 pages, 650 photos (French-language text). PDF extract at the link
https://www.aircraft-navalship.com/prod ... vions/3251

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Re: Aviation Books to read

Post by shackleton0 » Wed Mar 25, 2020 10:01 am

"Category Five"......Colin Cummings

This is an older book, but is a really interesting one for the RAF enthusiast.

It is a catalogue of RAF aircraft losses from 1954 to 2009.

Readers will be familiar with many of the accidents listed in this comprehensive volume.

Interesting to see the accident rate reducing as time passes by.

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Re: Aviation Books to read

Post by roughcutter » Wed Apr 15, 2020 7:14 pm

This looks to be a very promising book in the pipeline by a great author : https://www.fonthill.media/products/sup ... eing-c-135

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Re: Aviation Books to read

Post by moonstone_laura » Sat May 09, 2020 9:57 am

Can anyone recommend a recent, good book on the B-2 Stealth Bomber that isn't a pictorial/illustrated history? Not that there's anything wrong with those sort of books but I'm really looking for something a bit more substantial - and factual. A quick trawl through amazon suggests that most B-2 books are either a) quite old now (1990s); b) on the short side (often less than 100 pages!); or c) as I nearly discovered to my cost, for kids!

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Re: Aviation Books to read

Post by blackhandgang17 » Sat May 09, 2020 1:45 pm

Rate of Climb by Rick Peacock Edwards is a good read dealing with his time on Lightning’s in Germany,instructing on Lightning’s at Coltishall and Gnats at valley as well as Phantoms on 111Sqn and introduction of the Tornado F2/F3 as OC of the OCU and then Station Commander at Leeming before GW1 and Air Attaché tour in Washington and director of Flight Safety

Cost me £14 from the small South American river onlne

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