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Sure it was locked when I posted this :confused: Think im going mad or somthing……

It’s worth considering. 😎

Sure it was locked when I posted this :confused: Think im going mad or somthing……

Anyway, probs have a look at the go book.

Are there any decent books about non low cost airlines?

(I would have posted this on the other thread but it was locked before I had a chance)

Are you sure? The other thread has not been locked out, just GA doing his moderator thinggy of keeping things to the initial subject, that is all…:)

But can anyone recommend other decent reads to do with the industry?

Yes, have you tried these:

EasyJet: The Story of England’s Biggest Low-cost Airline:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/EasyJet-Englands-Biggest-Low-cost-Airline/dp/1845132475/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221042418&sr=1-1

Go: An Airline Adventure:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Go-Airline-Adventure-Barbara-Cassani/dp/0751535605/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221042481&sr=1-1

Blue Streak: Inside jetBlue, the Upstart that Rocked an Industry:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blue-Streak-jetBlue-Upstart-Industry/dp/B000NO1CO6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221042553&sr=1-3

Nuts!: Southwest Airlines’ Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nuts-Southwest-Airlines-Business-Personal/dp/1587991195/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221042593&sr=1-2

Out of all of these, I would have said the book about Go by Barbara Cassani was the one I enjoyed the most!

Thanks for the information.

I remember reading something on Internet about a F8 crusader?, whose pilots ejected, and made a long solo fly until belly landing on a farm. but don’t remember where I read it

in one book on hunters, there’s a tale of an aircraft getting into difficulties on approach to landing, the pilot abandoned ship, and the aircraft made a good, wheels up landing on the airfield by itself. and i’m not sure, but they may even have got it serviceable again.

Not an unmanned landing but an unmanned take-off. A BA Swallow took off after the pilot swung the prop himself. It managed to fly very well until shot down by a pair of FAA Sea Furies! This would have been around 1947 … the reg is quoted in AJJ’s “British Civil Aircraft” but its up in my study and I’m in the kitchen at the moment!

It’s not a book, but if you go to the site
http://www.samoloty.ow.pl/amiap/
and select
“Bezzalogowe ladowanie” (“Unmanned landing”) or “Bezzalogowe ladowanie – epilog” (“Unmanned landing – epilogue”) you will get a story of a B-17 that was hit by Flak, abandoned by the crew and then flew on for some 150 miles, belly landing in field in nice condition. The text is all in Polish, but you can contact the author, Szymon Serwatka, who speaks/writes good English.

If you are looking for books try:Abebooks or Bookfinder.com. 🙂

P/O Prune quite right.

I have Famous Bombers… (1st Vol.), ditto Famous Fighters (which went into at least six impressions) and Second series (ie Vol. 2) of Famous Fighters… (all pub by Macdonalds)
I also have Second Editions of both each of which appear to be combination of vols. 1 and 2. Famous Fighters… pub by Purnell and Famous Bombers…. pub by Macdonald and Janes.
All the contents (although listed at the front) are in no particular order.

There were some on ebay last week but I didn’t take much notice which they were.

Macdonald also did a series of pocket size books which went to at least ten vols. and were set out country by country then in alphabetical order. Vols 1 – 4 Fighters, 5 Flying Boats, 6 Floatplanes, 7 – 10 Bombers and reconnaissance.

RogerSmith.

These would be by William Green, Published by Macdonald in the late 1950’s,early sixties,and come in 2 volumes each.They are about 10 x 8 and have about 120+ pages. Some smaller pocket sized versions were later produced in the late sixties and had just one or two countries aircraft in each.They should be quite easy to find and cheap, try Midland Counties publications, they have a massive stock of used books.

RE: Books

This is mostly complete, there are a few new additions that I haven’t logged in yet.

Reference
Aerospace Encyclopedia of World Air Forces. David Willis (Ed.), 1999.
Airliners Of The World. Stewart Wilson, 1999.
Attack And Interceptor Jets. Michael Sharpe, 1999.
Battleships And Carriers. Steve Crawford, 1999.
Brassey’s World Aircraft And Systems Directory 1996/97
Brassey’s World Aircraft And Systems Directory 1999/2000
The Encyclopedia of Civil Aircraft. David Donald (Ed.), 1999.
Encyclopedia Of World Military Aircraft, Volume 1. David Donald, John Lake (Eds.), 1994.
Encyclopedia Of World Military Aircraft, Volume 2. David Donald, John Lake (Eds.), 1994.
The Great Book Of Fighters. William Green, Gordon Swanborough, 2001.
The Great Book Of Modern Warplanes. Mike Spick (Ed.), 2000.
The Illustrated Directory Of Aircraft Armament. Bill Gunston, 1988.
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft. Enzo Angelucci (Ed.), 2001.
The International Directory Of Military Aircraft 2000/01. Gerard Frawley, 2000.
The International Directory Of Military Aircraft 2002/03. Gerard Frawley, 2002.
Jane’s Aircraft Recognition Guide. 1996.
Jane’s Aircraft Recognition Guide. 1999.
Jane’s Land Based Air Defence 1992-93
Jane’s Land Based Air Defence 2000-2001
Jane’s Warship Recognition Guide. 1999.
Missiles Of The World. Michael J.H. Taylor, John W.R. Taylor, 1972.
Modern Airborne Missiles. Bill Gunston, 1983.
The Pocket Guide To Military Aircraft and The World’s Airforces. David Donald (Ed.), 2001.
The Illustrated Directory of Tanks Of The World. David Miller, 2000.
US Air Force Air Power Directory. David Donald (Ed.), 1992.
US Navy & Marine Corps Air Power Directory. David Donald, John Lake (Eds.), 1992.

Soviet/Russian
First Person. Vladimir Putin, 2000.
Flankers-The New Generation. Yefim Gordon, 2001.
The Illustrated Directory of Modern Soviet Weapons. Ray Bonds (Ed.), 1986.
Midnight Diaries. Boris Yeltsin, 2000.
MiG Aircraft since 1937. Bill Gunston, Yefim Gordon, 1998.
MiG-Fifty Years Of Secret Aircraft Design. Rostislav A. Belyakov, Jacques Marmain, 1994.
MiG-23/27 Flogger in action (Squadron/Signal #101). Hans-Heiri Stapfer, 1990.
MiG-25 ‘Foxbat’ and MiG-31 ‘Foxhound’. Yefim Gordon, 1997.
MiG-29 Flight Manual Declassified. Alan R. Wise, 2001.
MiG-29 Fulcrum. Jay Miller, 1991.
MiG-29 Fulcrum in action (Squadron/Signal #112). Hans-Heiri Stapfer, 1991.
Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum. Yefim Gordon, 1999.
Monino-The Russian Air Force Museum. Colin W. Prentice, 1997.
OKB MiG. Piotr Butowski, Jay Miller, 1991.
OKB Sukhoi. Vladimir Antonov et. al., 1996.
On My Country And The World. Mikhail Gorbachev, 2000.
The Osprey Encyclopedia Of Russian Aircraft. Bill Gunston, 2000.
Russian Aircraft. A.G. Bratukhin (Ed.), 1995.
Russian Air Power. Yefim Gordon, Alan Dawes, 2002.
Soviet & East European Major Combat Aircraft. Michael J.H. Taylor (Ed.), 1990.
Soviet Military Power 1986.
Soviet SST-The Technopolitics Of The Tupolev-144. Howard Moon, 1989.
Soviet X-Planes. Yefim Gordon, Bill Gunston, 2000.
Su-27 Flanker Story. Andrei Fomin, 2000.
Sukhoi Fitters in action (Squadron/Signal #90). Hans-Heiri Stapfer, 1989.
Sukhoi S-37 and Mikoyan MFI. Yefim Gordon, 2001.
Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker. Yefim Gordon, 1999.
Tupolev Aircraft since 1922. Bill Gunston, 1995.
Tupolev-The Man And His Aircraft. Paul Duffy, Andrei Kandalov, 1996.
Tupolev Tu-22 ‘Blinder’ and Tu-22M ‘Backfire’. Yefim Gordon, Vladimir Rigmant, 1998.
Vintage Russian-Props and Jets of the Iron Curtain. Colin Ballantine, 1998.
Voronezh’s Aircrafts. V. V. Gagin, 1995.
Warships Of The USSR And Russia 1945-1995. A. S. Pavlov, 1997.
Yakolev’s V/STOL Fighters. John Fricker, Piotr Butowski, 1995.

American
A-12 Blackbird Declassified. Jeanette Remak, Joseph Ventolo Jr., 2001.
America’s Stealth Fighters And Bombers. James Goodall, 1992.
A/RA-5 Vigilante (Squadron/Signal Mini In Action #3). Terry Love, 1995.
Aurora-The Pentagon’s Secret Hypersonic Spyplane. Bill Sweetman, 1993.
B-2 Spirit in action (Squadron/Signal #178). James Goodall, 2002.
Bone B-1 Lancer in action (Squadron/Signal #179). Lou Drendel, 2002.
Combat Legends: SR-71 Blackbird. Paul F. Crickmore, 2002.
Convair B-58 Hustler. Jay Miller, 1997.
Dark Eagles-A History of Top Secret U.S. Aircraft Programs. Curtis Peebles, 1995.
F-4 Phantom II in action (Squadron/Signal #65). Larry Davis, 1984.
F-4C, F-4D & RF-4C Phantom II (Detail & Scale Volume 43). Bert Kinzey, 1994.
F-89 Scorpion (Detail & Scale Volume 41). Bert Kinzey, 1992.
Grumman Navy F-11B Swing Wing (Naval Fighters #41). Tommy Thomason, 1998.
Inside The Stealth Bomber. Bill Sweetman, 1999.
Joint Strike Fighter-Boeing X-32 vs. Lockheed Martin X-35. Bill Sweetman, 1999.
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works. Jay Miller, 1995.
Lockheed Secret Projects-Inside The Skunk Works. Dennis R. Jenkins, 2001.
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. Paul F. Crickmore, 1988.
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. Bill Holder, 2002.
Lockheed SR-71/YF-12 Blackbirds (Warbird Tech #10). Dennis R. Jenkins, 1997.
Lockheed Stealth. Bill Sweetman, 2001.
North American Aircraft 1934-1999, Volume 2. Kevin Thompson, 1999.
North American XB-70 Valkyrie-A Photo Chronicle. John M. Campbell, Garry R. Pape, 1996.
North American XB-70A Valkyrie (Warbird Tech #34). Dennis R. Jenkins, Tony Landis, 2002.
SR-71 Blackbird. James Goodall, 1995.
SR-71 Blackbird In Action (Squadron/Signal #55). Lou Drendel, 1982.
XB-70 Valkyrie-The Ride to Valhalla. Jeanette Remak, Joseph Ventolo Jr., 1998.
The X-Planes: X-1 to X-45. Jay Miller, 2001.

Other
Air Launch! A Pictorial History of Airborne Weapons. Bill Holder, Scott Vadnais, 2001.
The Cold War-A Military History. David Miller, 1999.
Concorde. Gunter Endres, 2001.
The Concorde Story. Christopher Orlebar, 1997.
Fighter And Stealth Aircraft. Joseph M. Parramon Homs (Ed.), 1998.
Gulf Air War Debrief. Stan Morse (Ed.), 1991.
Jane’s Battleships Of The 20th Century. Bernard Ireland, 1996.
The Modern Civil Aircraft Guide. David Donald (Ed.), 1999.
Stealth Warplanes. Doug Richardson, 2001.
Techniques And Equipment Of Electronic Warfare. Doug Richardson, 1985.
The World’s Worst Aircraft. Bill Yenne, 1999.

History/Tactics/Philosophy/Science
Achtung-Panzer! Major-General Heinz Guderian.
The Art Of War. Sun Tzu.
An Atlas of World History. Gerald A. Danzer, 2000.
Atlas of World History. John Haywood, 2001.
The Encyclopedia of World History. Peter N. Stearns (Ed.), 2001.
The Federalist Papers. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay.
Five Dialogues. Plato.
The God Particle. Leon Lederman, 1993.
The Greek and Macedonian Art Of War
K-19-The Widowmaker. Peter Huchthausen, Capt. USN (Ret.), 2002.
The Lost Art Of War. Sun Tzu II
Nicomachean Ethics. Aristotle.
On War. Carl Von Clausewitz.
Panzer Leader. General Heinz Guderian.
The Prince. Niccolo Machiavelli.
Symposium. Plato.

Magazines/Periodicals
AirForces Monthly
September 1999
April-December 2000
January-September 2001
March 2002
August 2002-Oct 02
X-Planes2 Special
Phantom Special
Top Gun Combat Special

Air International
March 1999
March 2000-December 2000
January 2001-October 2001
December 2001
January 2002
May 2002
July 2002-Oct 02

Air & Space
November 1994
March 2002

Aircraft Illustrated
March-May 2000
July 2000
October 2000

Airpower
March 2001
May 2001
May 2002
September 2002

Aviasalon Mira
No. 4

Aviatsiya I Kosmonatika
1.2000
4.2000

Aviatsiya Vremya
1/2000

Combat Aircraft
Volume 2-No. 1
Volume 2-No’s. 5-12
Volume 3-No’s. 1-6
Volume 4-No’s. 1-3

Combat Missions/Warplane
August 1990

International Air Power Review
Volume 1-5 (current subscription, library edition)
Carrier Aviation Air Power Directory

Military Parade
4/2000

Popular Science
March 2002
July 2002

Vestnik Aerospace Herald
2/2000

Wings
April 2001
August 2002

Wings of Fame
Volumes 7,8,12,17,19

World Air Power Journal
Volumes 1 (Spring 1990)-43 (Winter 2000) (complete run)

SOC

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RE: Books

Your collection is almost the size of mine – almost. My collection is mostly aviation related but I have a lot other naval and general military stuff too, and a LOT of videos. How are you going for storage??

Regards, Glenn.

RE: Books

Loads. Apart from the bound Flypast books, most of my stuff is all reference. As well as these two, I’ve got another 3 bookcases all full of aviation related stuff and am getting in dire need of a mass sort out. Anybody recommend a good bookshop ?

Cheers

Gary
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B I Hengi?
DCfly,want the bar code for the book so you can order?

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I use Jet Airliner production List vol 1(Boeing) and 2(General)and as I’m a reg. spotter, Airlines to Europe (although I find this a bit limited) and the occasional Aviation Letter. But I’m always on the look out for other books, Thanks for that Andrew, I’ll look out for that book next time I’m at LHR.

Dave

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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 13-10-02 AT 09:32 PM (GMT)]Hiya Dave. The vital guide book that I have, I purchased for LHR viewing roof shop at £9.99, but it is sold in W H Smiths too at the same price, and it is written by a guy called Gunter Endres.

The other book that I mentioned, the ATC abbreviations, i got free with my air band radio.

Hope this helps a little Dave. 🙂

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Saab and A330C,

Where do I purchase these informative journals??

sober at last

Dave

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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 13-10-02 AT 08:55 PM (GMT)]Saab, I think I have the book that you are talking about to. I also use another that gives ATC Abreviations.

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LOL I should’ve expected that from you.

sober at last

Dave