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After the end of the Second World War the Dutch Marineluchtvaartdienst (MLD) had on its inventory the Consolidated Vultee PBY-5 Catalina amphibious flying boat. For a possible replacement for this ageing type, Claudius Dornier was contacted by MLD at his Madrid office. Here he had a small team available for design and consultancy work. The [...]

Last week, on 22 October 2009 the first batch of the Fokker S-14 book finally arrived at the publisher’s office at Maarssen. First book sales took place on Saturday 24 October during the large IPMS Euro Scaling event at Nieuwegein. The book is the result of almost 3 years of intensive research both by me [...]

Supermarine Aviation Works Ltd. at Southampton, England was always a company well known for its flying boat  and floatplane designs. This started already in 1914 wit a flying boat designed by Noel Pemberton Billing.  Supermarine became famous with its flying boat and floatplane racers that were built purposely for the Schneider Cup races. In the [...]

Number sixteen of the SAM monograph publications is on one of the most beautiful aircraft ever built: the Hawker Hunter. Just like the other volumes, this book is fully packed with photos (and a lot of them in colour!), colour profiles and technical drawings from the Hunter manual. In almost 130 pages, the following chapters [...]

This book review is again not for a new book, but for a book printed many years ago. The famous Douglas test pilot Bill Bridgeman put his experiences with the Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket together in a book that he wrote with the assistance of his wife. Bridgman, born in 1916, was during the second world [...]

This little book, introduced in 2007, is one of a series of monographs (no. 5) released by Dutch Profile of aircraft types used by Dutch forces in the past .  Driving person behind this is Mr. Luuk Boerman.
Author of the book is a specialist on this field: mr. Frits Gerdessen.  All research on camouflage colours [...]

Exhibition Gerben Sonderman 1908-1955- a born pilot, resistance man and friend of the Prince
On Saturday 13 December 2008, Wouter Sonderman, the son of the famous Dutch test pilot Gerben Sonderman, opened an exhibition to commemorate his father.

Wouter Sonderman during his opening speech in a nearby church

Gerben Sonderman was tragically killed in 1955 in a Fokker [...]

The Ryan NYP ‘Spirit of St. Louis’ is the plane that gave Charles Lindbergh world-wide fame when he crossed the Atlantic ocean in a non-stop flight from New York to Paris on 20 May 1927. With this heroic flight he won the Orteg prize, established for the first man to make this non-stop [...]

Although the above two titles may suggest just another new book on the history of aviation, this is not exactly true. In fact these two titles are no new books, but books published in 1935!
ENCYPLOPEDIA OF AVIATION was compiled and edited by squadron leader C.G. Burge, the editor of the periodicals ‘Air Annual of the [...]