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
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
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
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
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
Lancaster: The Second World War's Greatest Bomber by Leo McKinstry
$36.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
The Spitfire and the Lancaster were the two RAF weapons of victory in the Second World War, but the glamour of the fighter has tended to overshadow the performance of the heavy bomber. Yet without the Lancaster, Britain would never have been able to take the fight to the German homeland. Highlights the ...Show more