Simviation Forum - ..so.. Read any good books lately?

Reply #30 - Mar 30^th, 2006 at 6:17am

Alphajet_Enthusiast Offline
Colonel
Belgae Gallorum Fortissimi

Gender:
Posts: 3144

"escape zone" awesome book by sea harrier pilot about the falklands!

Macbook Pro | Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT | 2GB Ram | 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo | Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #31 - Mar 30^th, 2006 at 7:43am

Woodlouse2002 Offline
Colonel
I like jam.
Cornwall, England

Gender:
Posts: 12574

Quote:

"escape zone" awesome book by sea harrier pilot about the falklands!

Balkans actually. We didn't lose any Harriers in the Falklands.

P.s. "No Escape Zone."

Woodlouse2002 PITA and BAR!!!!!!!!&&&&Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the Act made in the first year of King George the First for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God Save the King.&&&&Viva la revolution!

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #32 - Apr 13^th, 2006 at 10:30am

Mynameisnemo Ex Member

just finished reading Flight Of The Old Dog by Dale Brown.... now going to start on the gigantic manual for the captain sim hercules

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #33 - Apr 13^th, 2006 at 12:43pm

FX Offline
Colonel
Israel

Posts: 60

Finished "1984"
Great book Shocked

and just started "animal farm"
hope to finish it soon

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #34 - Apr 24^th, 2006 at 8:46pm

Boomtown Rat Offline
Colonel
Ushuaia
Wellington, FL

Gender:
Posts: 529

Finished Downfall awhile back, then followed with Robert Harris' "Archangel." It's an excellent book centered in Moscow and the City of Archangel in Russia. It has to do with Stalin and his secret diary. Excellent read, i'd be lying if I said I wasn't depressed when it ended!

Currently read Soldat, which is about Siegfried Knappe (well, he's telling the story, but it is translated), a Wehrmacht soldier who fought in almost every major german campaign and got wounded as well. He even fought in Berlin and stayed until May 1st where he surrendered to the Russians with Weidling and Co, and then spent five years in a Russian POW camp and then eventually getting to the west. It also includes 16 pages of photos he smuggled into the west. It starts with Berlin in April 1945, which is familiar territory for me (see: Fall of Berlin I read a few months ago).

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #35 - Apr 25^th, 2006 at 9:49pm

The Ruptured Duck Offline
Colonel
Legally sane since yesterday!
Wichita, KS

Gender:
Posts: 2614

"Flight of Passage" Rinker Buck

2 kids fly from NJ->Los Angeles in a Piper Cub in 1966

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing" -Ben Franklin&&&&"Man must rise above the Earth to the top of the atmosphere and beyond, for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives." - Socrates&&&&" Flying is a religion. A religion that asymilates all who get a taste of it." - Me&&&&"Make the most out of yourself, for that is all there is of you"- Ralf Waldo Emerson&&

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #36 - Apr 26^th, 2006 at 9:55pm

PilotGonzo Offline
Colonel
Addicted Again
Melbourne/Newcastle Australia

Gender:
Posts: 77

I reccommend anything by Hunter S Thompson.

Especially Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas and Fear and loathing on the campaign trail '72, every sentance he wrote was amazing.

Intel i7 930 o/c @ 4.0ghz. Asus Rampage II Gene. 6gb Corsair Trident 2000mhz. GTX 285. Corsair TX750w PSU. Corsair H50 Water Cooling. WD Velociraptor 150gb 10,000rpm FSX HDD. 1TB WD OS drive 7,200 RPM.

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #37 - Apr 30^th, 2006 at 10:38am

Mees Offline
Colonel
Netherlands, the

Gender:
Posts: 4041

i must the get on with the Harry Potter series Grin

&&AMD Athlon 4200+ :: Gigabyte K8n-SLi :: 1GB RAM :: 7900GTX 512MB&&

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #38 - May 1^st, 2006 at 4:47pm

C Offline
Colonel
Earth

Posts: 13144

Quote:

Balkans actually. We didn't lose any Harriers in the Falklands.

Sqn Ldr Bob Iveson would disagree when his Harrier was shot down at 100' @ 450kts!...

I think we lost a total of 9 or 10. 4 Gr.3 (3 to enemy ground fire, one engine failure*) and the others were SHARs (2 ground fire/SAM, 1 exploded after take off, 2 are thought collided whilst on a night CAP, and one fell off it's ship whilst waiting to take off)...

*It was forced landed by its pilot, who, 20 year later was to be Chief of the Air Staff...

What was amazing is that in 25 years of service, including a war against a not under equipped air force, the Sea Harrier never lost in air to air combat...

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #39 - May 2^nd, 2006 at 9:38pm

PAY1829 Offline
Colonel

Posts: 18

Have any of you guys read any books by John J. Nance?

I have read about 6 of his books, they all have aviation related themes and are very hard to put down once you start reading. I think the best one I have read was Pandora's Clock.

Kick the tires, light the fires.

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #40 - May 3^rd, 2006 at 4:19pm

Politically Incorrect Offline
Colonel
Personal opinion given
free of charge!
Williamsport, PA

Gender:
Posts: 3915

Quote:

Have any of you guys read any books by John J. Nance?

Yes I have all of his novels bery good, if you like those you may want to look for Tracon by Paul McElroy Wink

Quote:

Finished "1984"
Great book

Written in 1948 which is how he came about his title.

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #41 - May 3^rd, 2006 at 5:05pm

lilley Ex Member

read some awsome books called The Lazarus Vendetta by Robert Ludlum and Patrick Larkin, The Cassandra Compact by Robert Ludlum and Philip Shelby and The Altman Code by Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds

cheers
james

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #42 - May 10^th, 2006 at 10:00pm

gottoflynow Offline
Colonel
I dont know I just like
this pic.

Posts: 738

All the Dale Brown books...they have airplanes, guns, and nuclear bombs... Grin

...It keeps me happy...I especially like "The Flight Of The Old Dog"...Its my favorite book ever.

-gottoflynow

Edit: Just saw nemo read this too...how did you like it?

Dell Dimension E520 &&Windows Vista Home Premium&&Intel Core 2 Duo 6300 1.86 GHZ&&2GB of ram&&ATI Radeon X1300 Pro 256MB&&Soundblaster Audigy 24bit Sound Card w/ Surround Sound Speakers &&160GB HD&&&&

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #43 - May 11^th, 2006 at 12:38am

Boomtown Rat Offline
Colonel
Ushuaia
Wellington, FL

Gender:
Posts: 529

Now reading "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain.

Yay! Grin

Back to top

IP Logged

	Search the archive: