Wine, Women and Song - A Spitfire Pilots Story by Doug Brown; Hamish Brown
$60.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Wine, Women and Song is the fabulous account of Doug Brown's war years. The title is named after one of the Spitfire aircraft that Doug flew while he was with 485 NZ Squadron in England.
Spitfire Mark I P9374: The Extraordinary Story of Recovery, Restoration and Flight by Andy Saunders
$59.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
Andy Saunders relates the fascinating story of the recovery of this Battle of France Spitfire Mk1 from the sands of Calais during the early 1980s and its subsequent return to the UK for rebuild and restoration to flying condition. The full history of the airframe from the factory to loss, the aeroplane' ...Show more
Focke-Wulf FW190 Aces of the Western Front by John Weal
$39.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
This work looks at the Focke-Wulf 190 and the aces who flew it. Nimble, speedy and well-armed, the FW190 was the scourge of the RAF and USAAF from the moment it appeared over the skies at Abbeville in August 1941.
Last of the Lancasters by Martin Bowman
$79.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
'The Lancasters looked like enormous deadly black birds going off into the night; somehow they looked different when they came back. The planes carried from this field 117,000 pounds of high explosives and the crews flew all night to drop the load as ordered. Now the trains would not run between France ...Show more
Fighting Cockpits: In the Pilot's Seat of Great Military Aircraft from World War I to Today by Donald Nijboer
$55.00 NZD
Category: Aviation
Climb inside the cockpits of the world's most famous military aircraft from World War I, World War II to the present day! What was it like to sit in the pilot's seat and take control of a P-51 Mustang in World War II? What about an F-14 Tomcat at the height of the Cold War? Or a Lockheed Martin F-22 Rap ...Show more
Helicopter Boys by Richard Pike
$55.00 NZD
Category: Aviation
Helicopter Boys is the latest addition to Grub Street's Boys series from acclaimed author Richard Pike exploring the role of helicopters in military and civilian situations. With over fifteen contributors, Helicopter Boys contains stories of the diverse nature of helicopter operations. From the dramatic ...Show more
Early Risers by Richard Waugh
$34.90 NZD
Category: Aviation
Adventures of the aviation pioneers of Gisborne and Hawkes Bay in NZ; joyriding off beaches; hand-swung propellers; forced landings and much more. A4 portrait format, 96 pages including 4 pages in colour.
Electra Flying - The Lockheed 10 Electra in New Zealand and The Pioneering of the Main Trunk Air Service by Richard Waugh
$34.90 NZD
Category: Aviation | Reading Level: very good
Lockheed 10 Electras in 1937 pioneered the first Auckland - Wellington air servec. By late 1938 Uion Airways had Electra-fried the whole Main Trunk route from Auckland to Dunedin. This book tellls the story and adventures of how they revolutionised commercial aviation in New Zealand with their modern A ...Show more
Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World by James Hamilton-Paterson
$29.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
Just what was it like to be alive in that marvellous post-war moment when innovative new British aircraft made their debut, and pilots were the rock stars of the age? In this book, the author fuses his own memories of being a schoolboy plane spotter with a ruefully realistic history of British decline - ...Show more
Spitfire VC vs A6M2 Zero-Sen: Darwin 1943 by Peter Ingman; Jim Laurier (Illustrator); Gareth Hector (Cover Design by, Illustrator)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Aviation | Series: Duel Ser.
The little-known yet fascinating story of when two of the most iconic aircraft of World War II dueled in the skies above Australia. Fully illustrated with detailed full-color artwork, this is the gripping story of two iconic aircraft facing off against each other above Australia. Just weeks after Pear ...Show more