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Osprey Duel 28 Mirage III vs MiG-21 – Six Day War 1967
During the Six-Day War, the IAF demonstrated the importance of air superiority during the course of a modern conflict, especially in a desert theatre. Following the IAF’s preliminary air attack, in which the IAF achieved near total tactical surprise (only four unarmed Egyptian training flights were in the air when the strike began), it was [...]
Fokker T.V “Luchtkruiser’ History, camouflage and markings
Another very interesting new book in the DUTCH PROFILE series was released by the end of 2009. Just like the earlier described Fokker D.XXI volume it is a book on aircraft types used by the Dutch air force and naval air service. This new publication is written by mr. Frits Gerdessen, also author of the [...]
Fokker S-14 Machtrainer by Nico Braas and Willem Vredeling
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 [...]
F6F Hellcat at War
When I first read the title of this new book I though to myself: This might be one of many publications about this aircraft that appeared since 1979. But that would soon turn out to be a big misinterpretation. This new publication out of Zenith Press’ „At war series“ and authored by Cory Graff, Aviaton [...]
The Lonely Sky by Bill Bridgeman & Jaqueline Hazard
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 [...]
