Friday, May 02, 2014

Coming Soon — Hidden Warbirds II: more epic stories of finding, recovering, and rebuilding WWII’s lost aircraft

Nicholas Veronico, the author of Hidden Warbirds as well as Hidden Warbirds II, is easy going and brimming with knowledge — especially whenever relic warbird finding (wreckchasing) arises in the conversation. Hidden Warbirds was reviewed earlier, and what a great read it is with its variety of warbirds, places, people and stories. Happily, a sequel is slated for release this June and it is greatly promising indeed. Having three major parts — underwater recoveries, swamp and jungle recoveries, as well as lucky finds — the book covers Allied and Axis aircraft as well as relatively inexpensive recovery projects to eight figure projects. Many of these aircraft are rare, or nearly so making this book all the more exciting.

Read more here:  http://blog.seattlepi.com