Reach for the Skies: Ballooning, Birdmen and Blasting into Space. A personal history of aviation by Sir Richard Branson
29.99 NZD
Category: Aircraft | Reading Level: good
A thrilling and very personal history of flight by the world-famous adventurer and businessman. As far back as stories go, pioneers have reached for the skies. In the last two hundred years, they have mastered the air and made the modern world possible. Today they are bringing outer space within our rea ...Show more
British Flying Boats by Peter London
65.00 NZD
Category: Aircraft
The flying boat is a unique form of aircraft, with the ability to operate from sea or river and, in amphibian form, from land too. Over 100 types of British flying boat and amphibian were built during a 40-year period from the days of the pioneer airmen to the advent of the jet engine. Early attempts ...Show more
Early Aviation Disasters: The World's Major Airliner Crashes Before 1950 by David Gero
49.99 NZD
Category: Aircraft
Long before the days of wide-bodied jets and supersonic travel, two , three and four engined aeroplanes, flying boats and airships made their way over land and sea, connecting cities, countries and continents in what was then a revolutionary mode of transport. Some of these flights ended in tragedy; tr ...Show more
Spitfire by Leo McKinstry
77.00 NZD
Category: Aircraft
In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world will move forward into broad, sunlit uplands,' said Churchill. The future of ...Show more
Lancaster by Leo McKinstry
77.00 NZD
Category: Aircraft
The Spitfire and the Lancaster were the two RAF weapons of victory in the Second World War, but the glamour of the fighter has tended to overshadow the performance of the heavy bomber. Yet without the Lancaster, Britain would never have been able to take the fight to the German homeland. Lancaster highl ...Show more
100 Years of Flight in New Zealand by Museum of Transport And Technology
82.00 NZD
Category: Aircraft
From the earliest beginnings of powered flight, aviation has played a vital role in the developement of New Zealand and its interactions with the rest of the world. This book tells that story in stunning photographs sourced from the world's best photographers and chosen to show our journey from the ea ...Show more
The Aviation Book by Fia O Caoimh
97.00 NZD
Category: Aircraft
Illustrates the history of flight through drawings of nearly 400 of the world's aircraft, each individually rendered and with technical specs.
Silver Wings: New Zealand Women In Aviation by Shirley Laine
59.99 NZD
Category: Aircraft
Silver Wings tells the story of New Zealand’s women flyers, from the 1920s, when a woman’s place was deemed to be on the ground (preferably in the home), until the present day, when women fly every type of aircraft and are involved in aviation sport of all kinds. After 22 December 1925, when Gladys Sand ...Show more
New Zealand's First Airline : Hoki to Haast (Hardback) by Richard Waugh
69.90 NZD
Category: Aircraft
New Zealand?s first licensed airline to fly scheduled services, operated the Hokitika to Haast route on the scenic West Coast of the South Island. Air Travel (NZ) Ltd was launched in 1934 by legendary pilot Bert Mercer, the first Kiwi to achieve 10,000 flying hours. The airline also pioneered airmail, a ...Show more
New Zealand's First Airline : Hoki to Haast by Richard Waugh
49.99 NZD
54.90 (8% off)
Category: Aircraft
New Zealand?s first licensed airline to fly scheduled services, operated the Hokitika to Haast route on the scenic West Coast of the South Island. Air Travel (NZ) Ltd was launched in 1934 by legendary pilot Bert Mercer, the first Kiwi to achieve 10,000 flying hours. The airline also pioneered airmail, a ...Show more