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Features: Warships North - On Canada's roof a second year running; Arctic Fuel Cache - 450 Squadron's helicopters are harbingers; Surveillance of Soviet Force - watching Russians emerging as an ocean power; Summer of the Hard Look - Rembrance Day look at the Legion; Expanding roles and more servicewomen; Nursing in Europe; The Queen's Own Rifles - display at the Canadian Regimental Museum in Toronto at Casa Loma; Forces Band Inspiring; Air Show - Snow Birds and more; Whirlybird at Iroquois; This is a cycle - HMCS Yukon returns from 10 weeks in Japanese and Hawaiian waters; Cairns and Maxville - Pipe major's stirring school excursion; back cover features photo of Anne Murray in T-10 canopy harness at the PNE. Sound copy. Book
Features: Light Aviation Today; Egyptian Helicopters; EMERLEC-30 - shells ready for use; Helicostat (project); How the Frigates Age - they are evolving to assume ever more unorthodox forms (long article); The Battle of the North Atlantic - an irreversible re-orientation for commercial air traffic; The LUPO Class - illustrated article with great colour fold-out; Electronic Warfare (part II); Additional illustrated stories. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
93 pages. Bibliography. Index. Generously illustrated with colour and black and white photos. "Helicopter flying in the high country brought fame and endless challenge to a small group of determined and innovative people in British Columbia and led the way to a world-renowned reputation in commercial helicopter operations. Beginning with Okanagan Helicopters in the late 1940s and Vancouver Island Helicopters in the early 1950s, British Columbia helicopter companies led the world in mountain flying." - back cover. Prior owner's address stamp atop half-title page otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
Features: The Press and Paddy Burke (Part One); Pat Renahan; Searching for missing flyers; Burke Dead, Two Saved; Kauzunoko - Herring Spawn near Denman Island; Omnidirectional Gzowski - a Canadian Odyssey - an Aero Commander "Shrike" Survey Plane; Prince George; Northern Thunderbird Air; YXS; Northern Mountain Helicopters; An Antinov (AN2) Afternoon; Rossland and the Flying Steam Shovel; Navair Charter; Air Cadets are the Grassroots. Nice copy. Magazine
163pp., with bl/w illustrations in text, 25cm., Doctoral Dissertation (Universiteit Leiden, the Netherlands), illustrated softcover, stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, S112625
Features: XF-90 - Part II of the Air Force's Postwar Long Range Fighter controversy; Sikorsky S-55 - First of the classic helicopters; Douglas XO2D-1 Scout/Observation Floatplane - 8 pages of complete plans. Art: Lockheed XF-90 in flight; Consolidated PBY-5 Catalinas on patrol Book
pp. xiv, 161 + Plus frontis and full page photographs. Signed by the author on title page. Mildly XLib. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, slightly faded. Nice copy. Mr. Morris was chief test pilot and service manager for the Sikorsky helicopters. AIR/1
8vo., Second Edition thus, with very numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Greatly expanded version of the first edition of 1958. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
157 pages including index and bibliography. Illustrated in black and white and colour. "Many first-hand experiences bring this exciting and dramatic story to life. Extensively illustrated with vintage photographs." - from back cover of later printing. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound reading copy. Book
54 pages. Features include: Tenures around the world - Part 2; Asia - the new frontier; Logging down under; Palm Pilots, Calm Pilots and Helicopters; Close Calls; Necessity - the father of invention; New helicopter repari facility in Duncan; Morgan Skidder - homegrown success; Remember the Tugboatmen; River Dance - working on the river. Cover features photo of the world's largest self-loading, self-dumping barge, the Seaspan Forester, dumping its load into Howe Sound. Moderate wear. Usual library markings. Solid copy. Book
185 pages including notes, bibliography, index and black and white illustrations. The perilous 600-mile flight of the eight helicopters to Desert One, the secret rendezvous in the Iranian desert, is retraced, along with the disastrous events that followed, which stamped the endeavor with tragedy. Until all records are declassified, this book will stand as the most useful source available on the subject. Book clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Attractive maroon cloth boards. Moderate wear to dust jacket with closed one inch tear to bottom edge of front panel. Book
207 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Many reproductions of black and white photos. "Charles O. Weir's career has taken him to the Arctic lands of the Canadian North, to the outposts of Newfoundland and Labrador, to Strategic Air Command bases in Greenland, to New Zealand, and to the wonders of New Guinea." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy without dustwrapper.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear to cover. Brightly colored airplane illustrations throughout - on the cover, on the endpapers, and many full-size color illustrations inside. Unpaginated. 8 1/2"w x 11 1/4"h.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE.
pp. viii, 528. Illustrated with numerous photographs. XLib. Folio. Original full blue cloth binding, worn and spotted. Hardbound. SPACE/2
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, moderately rubbed dustwapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and numerous photographs and diagrams throughout; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
340p. Hardcover Very good condition good
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs throughout; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
258p. + Plus map frontis. Map endpapers. Inked ownership of Frank E. Williams on title page and front paste down. 8vo. Original full royal blue cloth binding. First Edition. Nice copy. WWIIA/1
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Bumped rear corner, otherwise edges sharp and clean. 144 pages. 7 3/4"w x 10 1/2"h. Pictorial glossy cover. History of fantastic flying machines, such as airplanes, helicopters, sailplanes, spacecraft, ornithopter, flying wings, interceptors, home-built aircraft, and more, with many b&w and color photos and illustrations.
Oblong 4to., First Edition, text in German, with frontispiece and numerous photographs and diagrams throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
