About Us
Nelson
Art
Art - Techniques
Art - History
Agriculture
Antiques / Collec...
Architecture / De...
Aromatherapy
Astrology
Astronomy
Atlases
Audio Books
Aviation
Biography / Memoir
Building
Business
Cars
Cars - General
Cars - Technical
Cars - Car Manuals
Card Decks
Children
Children - 5 to 8
Children - 9 to 14
Children - Audio...
Children - Classics
Children - Pictu...
Children - Poetry
Children - Pre-S...
Children - Refer...
Children - Activity
Coffee Table Books
Comics & Graphic ...
Asterix
Tintin
General
Computing
Cooking
Craft
Craft - Floral
Craft - General
Craft - Metalwork
Craft - Mosaics
Craft - Needlecraft
Craft - Papercraft
Craft - Pottery
Current Affairs
Design
Dictionaries
Diet and Nutrition
Environment
Fashion/Costume
Fiction
Fiction - Classics
Fiction - Contem...
Fiction - Crime
Fiction - Fantasy
Fiction - Sci-Fi
Fiction - Thriller
Fiction - Histor...
Film, TV and Theatre
Fishing
Fitness
Foreign Language ...
German Books
French Books
Games
Gardening
Gender
Genealogy
Gift
Guns & Knives
Health
History
Hobbies
Humour
Hunting
Languages
Literary Criticis...
Maori
Maori - History
Maori - Issues
Maori - Language
Maori - Myths & ...
Maps
Martial Arts
Massage
Military
Motorbikes
Music
Music - Luthiery
Natural History
Nautical
Nautical - Boatb...
Nautical - Coffe...
Nautical - Maint...
Nautical - Profe...
Nautical - Seama...
Nautical - Tales
New Zealand
NZ - Art History
NZ - Biography
NZ - Children - ...
NZ - Children - ...
NZ - Childrens P...
NZ - Craft
NZ - Fiction
NZ - Guidebooks
NZ - History
NZ - Natural His...
NZ - Pictorial
NZ - Poetry
NZ - Politics
NZ - Reference
Parenting
Pets
Philosophy
Photography
Poetry
Poetry Competiti...
Politics
Popular Science
Pregnancy & Child...
Psychology / Self...
Railways
Reference - General
Religion / Faith
Sex
Sport
Stationery
Technical - General
Text Books
Tractors / Trucks
Travel
Travel - Guides
Travel - Narratives
True Crime
Wicca
Wine, Beer & Spirits
Woodwork
Writing
Yoga
Young Adult
Book Tokens
Events
September
Page & Blackmore...
What We Are Reading
June 2009 - What...
July 2009 - What...
Calendars
Inbox
netStep
Password:
ID (firstname.lastname):
Sign Up
Search:
ISBN / ISSN
Title
Author
Publisher
Barcode
Aviation
Catalogue
|
Rep List
|
Back List
Showing 1 - 10 of 279 results
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
| ... |
Next >
|
Last >>
(click to enlarge)
The Spitfire
order quantity
NZ$ 79.99 each
Hardback
Author:
Ivan Rendall
In Stock:
7
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 Leader William Duncan Smith The Spitfire is part of popular culture and from the Battle of Britain to the present day it has remained a national celebrity. As a focus of appeals, for scrap aluminium - 'turn your saucepans into Spitfires' - for the 'Spitfire Fund' and 'Wings for Victory Week' the British people had a stake in the Spitfire. Working People contributed through their companies to present Spitfires to the RAF in return for letters from the pilots. After the war, no victory flypast was complete without a Spitfire, and today no air show is over until the roar of the Merlin engine has been heard overhead. This book, with its wealth of ...
more
(click to enlarge)
Flying Boats : My Father's War in the Mediterranean
order quantity
NZ$ 40.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Alex Frame
In Stock:
6
Alex Frame's father was a flying boat pilot in war and afterwards in peace. This book concentrates on the years of World War II, particularly 1941 in the Mediterranean - a time of intense military activity seemingly full of setbacks and even disasters for the British and Commonwealth forces in the struggle against Hitler's war machine. Alex Frame also remembers the 1950s Coral Route, the legendary flying boat circuit around the Pacific Islands.
First published September 2007.
(click to enlarge)
Reach for the Skies : Ballooning, Birdmen and Blasting into Space - My Story of Flight
order quantity
NZ$ 42.99 each
Paperback
Author:
Branson Richard
In Stock:
4
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 reach. They're inventors and toymakers, amateurs and adventurers, visionaries, dreamers and, yes, crackpots. Some have called them irresponsible, even dangerous. But I have met many of them. I have worked with them, and funded them, and flown with them. I admire them, and trust them, and I think they and their kind are our future.
In this book I look at the history of flight through the stories and people who have inspired me throughout my life. In these pages you will find stories of miraculous rescues; of records made and broken; of surprising feats of endurance and survival, including some of my own adventures, as well as developments in the future of air (and space) travel. It is a story of pioneers, and of course it ...
more
(click to enlarge)
Heartland High Flier
order quantity
NZ$ 39.99 each
Paperback
Author:
Bruce Gavin
In Stock:
3
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, rampant inflation, restrictive licensing regulations and a reluctance of the public to fly in a small aircraft yet grew to pioneer fast, frequent and reliable air links between provincial cities.
(click to enlarge)
Highest Duty : My search for what really matters
order quantity
NZ$ 35.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Captain Chesley Sullenberger & Jeffrey Zaslow
In Stock:
2
On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed one of the most remarkable emergency landings in aviation history when Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger skillfully glided US Airways Flight 1549 onto the surface of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. His cool actions not only averted tragedy but made him a hero and an inspiration worldwide. To Sullenberger, a calm, steady pilot with forty years of flying experience who is also a safety consulting expert, the landing was not a miracle but rather the result of years of practice and training-wisdom he gained in the cockpit of U.S. Air Force jets and in his Texas boyhood. Born to a World War II veteran and dentist father and an elementary school teacher mother, Sully fell in love with planes early. He learned to fly as an eager 16-year-old from a crop duster, an older neighbor in north Texas, who took off and landed his fragile plane on the grass field behind his house.
(click to enlarge)
On The Wings Of History : Volume One The Beginning Of The Vintage Aviator Collection
order quantity
NZ$ 28.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Allan Udy & Alex Mitchell
In Stock:
2
Over the past two decades the Second World War fighter aircraft of the Alpine Fighter Collection have been the mainstay of the world renown Warbirds Over Wanaka airshows. What many enthusiasts don't know (yet) is that for the past ten years there has been a collection of even older warbird aircraft quietly taking shape elsewhere in New Zealand.
Over the past decade The Vintage Aviator Ltd (TVAL) has been steadily growing its collection of fighter aircraft from the First World War, to the extent that this book documents over 48 different aircraft and colour schemes drawn from over two dozen different World War One types, which are, or have been seen here in New Zealand.
For readers unfamiliar with the aircraft from the dawn of military aviation, this book also includes a brief summary of the first 15 years of aviation, and then details the activities of the TVAL aircraft based at Omaka and Hood Aerodromes in New Zealand. ...
more
(click to enlarge)
Aircraft Recognition
order quantity
NZ$ 27.00 each
Paperback
Author:
R.A. Saville-Sneath
In Stock:
1
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. Saville-Sneath set out to produce a handy classification guide, with many diagrams, a full glossary and some useful mnemonics, showing how each type of aircraft could be identified quickly and easily. The basic structures, tail units, positions of the wings and engines, and even the sounds made by the different planes, form part of the essential 'vocabulary' for distinguishing Albacores and Ansons, Beauforts and Blenheims, Heinkels, Hurricanes and Junkers, Messerschmitts and Moths, Spitfires and Wellingtons. For anyone interested in aviation, the book provides a mine of information about a golden age. For those who lived through one of the ...
more
(click to enlarge)
Amelia Earhart
order quantity
NZ$ 33.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Marie K. Long
In Stock:
1
Drawing on a recently discovered long-lost radio message, Elgin and Maria Long re-create the events inside the cockpit of the doomed Electra flown by Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan. The authors debunk the myths that Earhart and Noonan were captured by Japanese soldiers or cannibalistic island tribespeople. Instead, they offer overwhelming evidence that the plane ran out of fuel short of its Howland Island destination. Letting the facts speak for themselves, the authors go well beyond simply solving the long-standing mystery of Earhart's disappearance and vividly brings to life the primitive conditions under which Earhart flew, in an era before radar, with unreliable communication, grass landing strips, and poorly mapped islands. In Amelia Earhart, the authors remind us how daring early aviators were as they pushed the technology of the day to its limits, and beyond, to the point of risking their lives.
(click to enlarge)
Boeing B-17: Flying Fortress Info Guide (Volume 2)
order quantity
NZ$ 49.99 each
Other Book
Author:
John Batchelor
In Stock:
1
Plane Essentials is a new series of concise aviation information guides which will profile many of the famous military and civil aircraft from the twentieth century.
(click to enlarge)
Fatal Traps for Helicopter Pilots
order quantity
NZ$ 85.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Greg Whyte
In Stock:
1
This work is aimed at private helicopter pilots, aircraft maintenance personnel, aviation enthusiasts, and commercial and military pilots. Case studies and first-hand accident accounts flesh out the descriptions and make for fascinating reading. It also features detailed examples of accident causes.
Acquire the Life-Saving Skills Needed to Eliminate or Reduce Most Helicopter Accidents
A vital resource for pilots, helicopter enthusiasts, and aircraft maintenance technicians, "Fatal Traps for Helicopter Pilots" analyzes all aspects of helicopter accidents, including flight basics, engineering, meteorology, flight training, and human factors. This life-saving guide shows how proper preparation can help prevent accidents by addressing causes such as aerodynamic problems, mechanical failures, poor loading, mid-air collisions, and more.
Filled with case studies and first-hand accounts of accidents, the book organizes accident ...
more
Open Printable
Showing 1 - 10 of 279 results
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
| ... |
Next >
|
Last >>
Page & Blackmore Booksellers Ltd
254 Trafalgar Street, Nelson, New Zealand
Tel - (03) 548 9992
Fax - (03) 546 6799
info@pageandblackmore.co.nz
Follow us on
Bookshop system by Circle
