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2018biblio1802<p>Russian text. 22x29cm Hb laminated new copy 400pp. richly illustrated: b/w colour illustrations throughout. Incl.: Russian military aeronautics in 1869-1914: air balloons in the service with the Russian Army prior to 1904 and during Russo-Japanese war Russian military aeronautics before WWI 1906-1914; early period: the birth of the Imperial Russian Air Service procurement tenders air schools; Russian aircraft industry: main factories and workshops armaments and special equipment: machine guns and machine-gun mounts bombing weapon air-photography & radio equipment airfield vehicles airfield AA-defence aviation motors factories Sikorsky's aircraft Grigorovich's flying boats foreign float seaplanes and flying boats; procurements abroad: French engines British engines German engines and aircraft Curtiss airplane and engines propellers; organization of the Imperial Russian Air Service: early years 1910-1913 uniforms reorganization during WWI; the Imperial Russian Air Service during WWI: early period Austro-Hungarian and German air services victories and defeats in 1914 the tragic year of 1915 1916: hopes and victories Romanian front the February revolution the October revolution; operational service of "Ilya Muromets" Flying Ships Squadron; Russian military aeronautics in WWI; Russian naval aviation during WWI. Massive reference. HEAVY BOOK WILL REQUIRE EXTRA POSTAGE. </p> hardcover