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8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured drawings and monochrome photographs throughout the text; ivory buckram boards lettered in gilt, brown buckram back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
Sm. folio, First Edition, with over 690 illustrations in the text; pictorial cloth gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. By far the most comprehensive and detailed history of any RAF squadron yet published. The work includes schedules of commanding officers, squadron movements, ROH, aircraft deployed, aerial victories and much more. A milestone in the literature of military aviation.
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 7 coloured plates, 108 monochrome photographs on 48, 12 full-page plates of drawings by Topolski and numerous illustrations, diagrams and tail-pieces in the text; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, boards and backstrip very lightly rubbed and age-marked else a very good, clean copy. Classic account prepared by the Polish Air Force association in London as the official English language history of Polish flyers in WW 2. The text is based on combat reports, squadron diaries and official records, with personal narratives by many former aircrew and (all-important) ground staff. It is the definitive account of the ten fighter squadrons (302, 303, 306, 307, 308, 309, 315, 316, 317, 318) and four bomber squadrons (300, 301, 304, 305) that flew with the RAF to such notable effect. VERY SCARCE
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, and very numerous illustrations from photographs and detailed scale drawings in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. This series is similar to Conway's outstanding outstanding 'Anatomy of the Ship' series featuring probably the most detailed drawings ever produced for historical naval publications.
In-4, 512p. Un des nombreux retirage. Avec de nombreuses illustrations en noir de G. Dutriac. Marque d'appartenance au dos du frontispice, sinon bel exemplaire.
2 vol., sm. folio, with many hundreds of photographs throughout, and photographic endpapers; pictorial boards (first volume), red cloth (second volume), a fine set in unclipped dustwrapper, the whole housed in publisher's board slip-case. Another of ATB's well-researched 'then and now' series, matching contemporary photographs with their present-day equivalents.
P., Amicale des "Anciens d'Air France", 1978. In-folio (30 x 43 cm) en feuilles sous chemise cartonnée comprenant 20 belles planches couleurs de Joseph de Joux. Rares rousseurs sur la page de titre sinon TB état.
In -folio, 6 pp. copertina a colori, spartito e fogli pubblicitari. La canzone traccia un parallelo fra aviazione e sessualità (‘Attenti alla vostra elica’ è la traduzione del titolo, dove l’elica sarebbe l’organo maschile). Il Carl Marx autore è da intendersi come un omonimo o in chiave caricaturale.
Northwestern University The Journal of Air Law and Commerce - 16 Volumes : 1952, T. 19, N°3 & 4 - 1953, T. 20, Année complète N° 1, 2, 3 & 4 - 1956, T. 23 N° 1 - 1969, T. 35, N°2 & 3 - 1970, T. 36, N° 2,3 & 4 - 1972, T.38, N°1 & 2 - 1973, T. 39, N° 1 + Index N° 35-1 - Bon état général
Due cromolitografie tratte dalla serie “Imagerie d’Epinal”: sono le tavole 6 e 7 (nn. 211 e 212) dedicate agli aerostati: “Les ballons dirigeables” e “Ballons & cerfs volants”. (Cm. 40 x 30).
Signed and generically inscribed by Baker upon title page. Signed and inscribed by Jim [Hurst] upon verso of dedication page beneath his photo. 143 pages. Black and white reproductions of photos. "A story of pioneering. Jim Hurst was one of the first pilots to invade the canyonlands of southeastern Utah." - dust jacket. Moderate wear to unmarked book. Minor moisture exposure to top edge near back. Binding sound. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
268 pages. "This is the story, informally told, of the RNZAF and of the men and women, all ranks, who made the service what it is today." - from dust jacket. Chapters include: Father of New Zealand Aviation; Kohimarama and Sockburn; The Bettington Report; Cochrane the Architect; Building Air Supremacy; The Famous Seventy-Five; Ordeal in South-East Asia; The 'New Zealand' Squadrons; Action in the Pacific; Fighters in Combat; The Later Bombers; 'Dumbo' to the Rescue; Tragedy at Green; Profiles; Surrender in the Solomons; Occupation Forces in Japan; Problems of Reshaping; Sojourn in Cyprus; The Hastings Story; 'Speak and it is Done'; The Coalmen of Berlin; Angels of Mercy; Ceremonial and Music; Coummunity Service; On - or off - the Ice; Coming-of-age; Morrison the Builder; Among the Builders. Appendices include: Operational Squadrons of the RNZAF; NZ Squadrons in the RAF; Air Board Members; Schedule of RNZAF Aircraft. Black and white illustrations throughout. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper else unmarked. Former dust jacket cover, which left strips of black residue along dust jacket and endpaper edges, has been replaced by a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A worthy reference copy. Book
458 pages. Footnotes. Index. Reproductions of black and white photos. "Chronicles an often overlooked contribution to Allied victory and aviation history. By war's end the ferry service, through its various incarnations, had created the basis for the network of international air routes and procedures that commercial travellers now take for granted." - from dust jacket. Unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade cover. A lovely copy. Book
[6], 138 pages. Index. Many black and white illustrations. "Every effort has been made to prevent 'dating' the manual and to cover as far as possible the navigation of all types of aircraft. Terminology and definitions conform to standardization agreements and training practice in the air forces. Intended to act as a guide and reference manual for navigators and pilots engaged in northern flying, and to supplement, not replace, basic navigation textbooks." - Preface. Please note: Sunrise, Sunset, Twilight Nomograph and Graph missing from pocket at back. Unmarked with light wear to navy boards. External lettering significantly rubbed. Binding tight. A sound copy. Book
Pages 187-318. Features: James Whitcomb Riley; John W. Foster - Soldier and Politician; Octave Chanute - Pioneer Glider and Father of the Science of Aviation; James Woodburn - Hoosier Schoolmaster; Judge Horace P. Biddle; A Search After Truth; A Visit to Easton; First Steps Towards a Public Law Library; Indiana Genealogy; and more. Prior owner's stamp atop first page otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book
72 pages. Features: 1960 Slates; Fort Lejeune fold-out cover illustration; and more. High Standard Manufacturing Corporation ad features photos of shooting prize winners Santiago Machuca, John C. Forman, David Cartes, Aubrey E. Smith, Roy Ratliff, and Richard Stineman; The Jet Age Wall - Are SAC and the ICBM offensive or defensive?; Embarkation Planning; The Marine Reserve; Peacetime Heroes; Report from the Ready Forces, The 2d Marine Division - Part I - Combat Readiness, and Part II - Programs to Improve Readienss; Write it Right; Your Ideas Wanted; The Salty Skipper; Brainstorming; Better Reserve Training; Sky Crane - the Sikorsky S-60; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
32 pages. Features: Cover photo of Helifor's Dave Morrison splitting an oversize hemlock; Remember the Axe - Illustrated article by noted axe author Allan Klenman; Canlog 1992 Schedule; Booming and Barging - what's happening today; Prince George Regional Forest Exhibition; In Camp with Helifor - on the ground and in the air; Helifor's Eclipse Camp; The Big Bang; Campbell River Fish and Forest - special Campbell River Supplement; Logging vs. Environmentalism; Lots of great ads; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Emergency Abort - A-5A leaves the runway and strikes mound of earth; The Horrendous Hazard of 'Fall In' - the gradual decline of pilot proficiency; LT A.V. Safeoff goes to a Safety Conference; Inflight Fire; Jet Engine Fuel Control; The Total Situation - how to bring an engine out of a stall; Flashing Lights? - Waveoff! (because your wheels are up!); Disorientation in Flight; Runaway!; Crud in the Hydraulic System; Why Torque Threaded Parts?; Murphy's Law; Letters; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
64 pages. Features: Photo essay on the Grumman F9F Panther; Do You Believe These Guys? - A Story from the Gulf War; The Great Cubi Shootout; When the Naval Air Defense Force was on the ropes; In Memoriam - Capt. Harry Jenkins - Dies Doing What He Dearly Loved; The Leader of the Blues; USS Franklin 50 Years Later; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
64 pages. Features: Fighting the War with Sidearms; Doggus Delecti; Where Are They Now? - Jack Ensch; The LSO Today - Roger, Ball; The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver - photo essay; At Marshal - Summer of '45; Haw Heroes Pull Pilot From Inferno; The FV-124 Revisited; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
100 pages. Features: The Silent Sky-Terror - The R.F.C. and the R.N.A.S. were required to put an end to a strange invasion from the clouds; The Fog of Fear - Kinley of the Secret Service Sets out to bring in the killers of the Clouds to book; Bristol Fashion - An old war horse comes into its own; Mind the Step - A man who knew nearly everything about flying-boats; True Story - Warriors of the Air - A vivid year-by-eary account of the achievements of Britain's Air Services during the Great War; He Couldn't Say When - Lieutenant Struthers, R.F.C., tells his pupil to Take a Point on the Horizon and Keep Going; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Chips from spine. Book
100 pages. Features: Valley of the Missing Men - Major 'Monty' Hardcastle saves the remnants of a Squadron from the greatest Sky-Trap of the War; Silent Wings - Blind in the Darkness above the Scottish HIghlands, a Sailplane Pilot Gambled with his Life to Save a Nation's Secrets; The Case Against Death - Peter Mohune - and his dramatic exposure of a ruthless Plot; True Story - the Continuation of a stirring year-by-year account of the achievements of Britain's Air Services during the Great War; The Fall of Peter - Peter Brown may have been the unluckiest Pilot in R.F.C history; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
96 pages. Features: Comrades of the Catapult - Fleet Air Arm goes into action against a sinister Brotherhood of the Malayan Coast; The Flash Point - Above the North Sea disaster transforms a Flying Boat into a Blazing Victim; Altitude Flight - Eight Miles above the Earth; True Story - The conclusion of a stirring year-by-year account of the Achievements of Britain's Air Services during the Great War; A Few Feet From the Kerb - a story of 2 Air Fighters of France; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
96 pages. Features: The Flaming Fighters - The Pilots of a Pup Squadron fall victim to a strange Hoodoo; The Mammoth and the Midge - Flt. Lt. Kinly goes to 'P.A.Q.', no ordinary restricted area; By Order of the Khan - Mischief in the Frontier Territory of Abdullah, The Khan; Hornets of the Skies - The story of the single-seater fighter from its birth in the early days of the Great War to its Near-Perfection in the Six-Miles-A Minute Projectiles of Today; Red Wings - A Red Ruse to trap the White Russians of Denikin's Army was betrayed to the Sharp Eyes of an English Airman; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
96 pages. Features: Long Complete Air-War Adventure - to Sergeant Ryan there was One Square Mile of Enemy Territory that Must Remain Inviolate - yet Fate made it the Objective of the Most Daring Raid of that Crazy Band of Bombers, the Coffin Crew; Air Mystery Story - An R.A.F. Flying-Boat Vanishes on its Trial Flight and a Retired Fishmonger in Finland finds his Greenhouse Roof Broken by an English Schoolboy's Satchel; Air Mystory Story - The All-Seeing Eye of a Silent Witness supplied the Clue to a sinister secret that gave the German Raiders Supremacy of the Air by night; Thrilling Air War History - The full and authentic story of the rise and fall of the imperial German Air Service during the Great War; Real Life Story - I Flew for Bolivia - The Amazing story of the only Englishman who Fought and Flew for Bolivia in the Recent War of the Gran Chaco; Great Modern Air Story - The Peaslake Crash - the Dramatic story of a first and last flight; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
