The Best Pilot Checklists in the World by Ross Ewing
29.95 NZD
Category: Aircraft
This booklet is written by a pilot for pilots - especially for beginner pilots, recreational pilots and sport pilots. It is written also for the family and friends of budding pilots and who are themselves interested in flying, go flying as a passenger and want to learn about checks and checklists and ho ...Show more
Richard Pearse and His Flying Machines: An Anthology of Research Notes, Essays and Ideas by C. G. Rodliffe
24.99 NZD
Category: Aircraft
A wonderful anthology of research notes, essays and ideas showing engines developed by Richard Pearse, his life and his fabulous achievements. Photographs and drawings are plentiful throughout. colour and b/w illustrations. 93 pages in A4 landscape format.
Heartland High Flier: the Story of Air Central by Bruce Gavin
39.99 NZD
44.00 (9% off)
Category: Aircraft
Over a span of almost 20 years from the mid 1960s to the mid 1980's, a diverse group of very focussed New Zealanders looked skywards and from nothing created and built a well respected North Island airline called Air Central. The story reveals how the airline battled a chronic shortage of finance, rampa ...Show more
From the Ground Up by Boyce Barrow
34.99 NZD
Category: Aircraft
Biography of an agriculture aviator - Boyce Barrow.
Kaimai Crash: New Zealand's Worst Internal Air Disaster by Richard Waugh
59.00 NZD
Category: Aircraft
New Zealand's worst internal air disaster. Flight 441 from Auckland to Tauranga on 3 July 1963 began as a typical National Airways Corporation DC-3 flight of the era. The passengers represented a cross-section of New Zealand society: men and women, Maori and Pakeha, young and old. They were travelling o ...Show more
Taking Off : Pioneering Small Airlines of New Zealand 1945 - 1970 by Richard Waugh
54.95 NZD
Category: Aircraft
These small airlines of the 1950s and 1960s, like Fred Ladd's Tourist Air Travel in Auckland and Popeye Lucas' Southern Scenic in Queenstown, were colourful examples of post-war optimism and the 'can do' attitude which changed New Zealand forever. These were versatile airlines flying Cessnas, DH89 Domin ...Show more
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: Aircraft | 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
Early Risers by Richard Waugh
29.95 NZD
Category: Aircraft
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.
The Spitfire by Ivan Rendall
77.00 NZD
79.99 (3% off)
Category: Aircraft
Designed to be the best fighter in the world the creators of the Spitfire married science, technology and art to create both 'a thing of beauty' and a deadly weapon that changed the course of the war. 'You don't just strap yourself in, you buckle the Spitfire on, like girding on armour...'Squadron Leade ...Show more
Aircraft Recognition by R.A. Saville-Sneath
25.00 NZD
Category: Aircraft
When this book was first published in 1941, aircraft recognition was far more than just a pleasant pastime; it was often a matter of life and death ...This classic text provides a definitive catalogue of the aeroplanes, enemy and friendly, seen over British skies during the Second World War. R.A. Savill ...Show more
The Flying Book by David Blatner
25.00 NZD
28.00 (10% off)
Category: Aircraft
Everything You've Ever Wondered about Flying on Airlines Whether we love it or hate it, millions of us fly every day ? but very few of us really understand how it works. Who hasn?t looked out of a plane window and thought, ?how are we actually staying up here?? The Flying Book will surprise, reassure ...Show more
Stick and Rudder - An Explanation of the Art of Flying by Wolfgang Langewiesche
59.00 NZD
Category: Aircraft | Series: Aviation | Reading Level: very good
What's in "Stick and Rudder": the invisible secret of all heavier-than-air flight - the Angle of Attack, what it is, and why it can't be seen. How lift is made, and what the pilot has to do with it; why airplanes stall; how do you know you're about to stall? The landing approach. How the pilot's eye fun ...Show more