Peter Corley-Smith; David N. ParkerMareMagnum
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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
2000LFA-126737697Un ouvrage de 379 pages, format 155 x 240 mm, illustré, broché couverture couleurs, publié en 2000, Editions Jacques Grancher, bon état
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.
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
74 pages. Salute to the Skyraider - examing the color schemes and markings of the Navy's most famous attack aircraft; Air Intelligence - news from air forces around the world; Navy Accepts first operational Hornet - a new era in Naval air power; High Times - these two pilots have recorded more than 1,000 flying hours each in the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird - Lt. Col. Robert Powell, Lt.-Col. George T. Morgan; Falcons of Georgia - History of Reserve Squadron VA-205; Igloo White - how we listened to the Ho Chi Minh Trail in stereo; Angel of another color - a new paint scheme on a Blue Angels aircraft; Fighting Falcon for Export - re-engined F-16 is planned for sale to smaller countries; Marines' Fighting Helicopters - how the USMC developed the helicopter into a fighting machine for aerial envelopment. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features. Grumman X-29A; Cook Island Hopping; "Mallet Blow"; Blackburn's Buccaneer - 1; Captured Argentine aircraft in the UK; Slingsby T67M Firefly; Schneider Trophy 1929; Air Malawi; Blackburn's Buccaneer - 2; R. Norwegian A.F.; Starfighter Twilight; 'Ocean Safari 85'; German Cargo Services; Where have all the Tridents gone?; ARV Super 2; Chinese 'Coke' with a western flavour; 'Frogfoot'; Back to Barbados; R.A.F. Finningley; Orions provide ASW network around the world; Coat of many colours; Aeronautical Research in WWI; South African DC-3 Anniversary; Republic of Singapore A.F.; EAP - Britain's fighter demonstrator; Bell AH-1W SuperCobra; First TriStar K.1 for No. 216 Squadron; Final Top-up with No. 57 Squadron; Zeppelin-Staaken E.4/20; Sun'n Fun; R.A.F. Fighter Command 50 years on; British Caledonian Airways - part 1; Electronic Warfare - part 1; R. Moroccan A.F.; Hanover Report; Tiger Club Air Show; Outback Medic; British Caledonian Airways - part 2; What to see at Farnborough; R.A.F. Support Helicopters; British Aerospace 146; British Caledonian Airways - part 3; Lynx Speed Record; British Aerospace ATP; Chile's Air Force; Sea Harrier Training; Freighters at Birmingham; Tactical Fighter Meet '86; Eastern Air Lines - part 1; Farnborough postscript; Beverleys in Aden; Visit to China; R.A.F. Support Helicopters; EW Training in the R.A.F.; Oshkosh Highlights; Eastern Air Lines - part 2; Westland Lysander; Index laid in. Clean and unmarked with moderate external wear. A quality 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
186 pages. Features: U.S. Route to Ottawa Favoured; The Final Frontier - first report on new route via Churchill; First Military Aviatrix - Helen Harrison is licensed to fly in four countries; Rescue, Northern Style - Captain Russ Baker of Canadian Pacific Air Lines; B-29 Armament Revealed; If Good Will Prevails; What's a Morrow Board?; Iso-Rev Propeller; Avro York Design; Reports from Ottawa; London Report; Trends in Washington; Packing for Export; British Helicopters Were Three Years Ahead; Modernized Blackfish for Royal Navy Carriers; Fairey Barracuda; Gliding Club Meets - Gatineau Gliding Club; Human Limits in Flight; Requires Small Planes; and more. Many pages of excellent WWII advertisements by a wealth of prominent companies. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
244 pages. Features: Nice color photo Miller beer ad inside front cover; Dewar's Whisky ad features Barbary Waterston; James Deakin looks forward to the 1972 election with emphasis on Harold Hughes; Times Change, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - reflections from the class of '40; Too Bad - reflections on high-school students from the Class of now; Six Jobs looking for women applicants - hockey goalie, forest ranger, university president, construction worker, ladies' shoe salesman, locker room attendant; Son and Hair, by Thomas Berger; If Hitler asked you to execute a stranger, would you?; Helen Burley Brown only wants to help; Personal Helicopters; The War Machine vs. the Peace Machinist; Otto and Bruno, by Jonathan Strong; Phone Lovers take heart - new telephone products; Kirk Douglas at Large... and getting larger, by Roger Ebert; Three Harvard travelers tell you how to travel the world on the cheap - Franklin Chu, Larry Gage, and Dan Ardrey; Photo Series - how to take your pants off while wearing chains; The Murder of Jeremy Harlowe; Doing it the Hard Way - New York sculptor Harvey Citron; European fashion report with photos. Many great vintage photo ads. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
84 pages. Features. Cover illustration of outport village, Port de Grave, Newfoundland; Nice colour ad for International heavy trucks inside front cover; The Fabulous Shoemaker - Tom Bata, probably Canada's richest man, controls a million-a-day shoe output - part 1; Whirlaway to Work - interesting photo-illustrated article on using helicopters for urban transportation; The Lovers - story by Mona Williams - illustrated by Allen Richardson; Labor Cleans House - Stalin's stooges boss some of our key unions - it's a tough, nasty fight to unseat them but labour is doing it - article with photos; The Man with the Mail from Minsk - Samuel Hoffman has been delivering the mail along route 103 in Toronto for 25 years - article with photos; They Pay as They Sway - Arthur Murray Dance Lessons - article with photos; Wrestler Whipper Billy Watson (nee Potts) - article with colour photo; So You're Buying a Used Car; 10,000 Men for Dinner - Crawley and McCracken are the continent's biggest bush-camp caterers -article with photos; A Place for Children - story by Alec Rackowe - illustrated by W. Book; Young Man of the World - Garry Davis has renounced his US citizenship and declared himself a citizen of the world - article with photos; Now They Get Medicine From Blood - Attractive centerfold ad for the new custom Dodge car; Attractive two-page colour ad for the great new Plymouth; Sweet two-page colour ad for the Elegant new Chrysler; Nice two-page colour ad for the new Dodge; Handsome two-page colour ad for the distinctive DeSoto car; Ad for Austin 3 and 5 ton trucks; Full-page colour ad for Stokely's tomato juice. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality 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
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
96 pages. Features: The Corps' 22d Commandant - David M. Shoup; Operation Inland Seas - celebrating the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway; Corps Album; Post of the Corps - Cinclant; West Pac Bound - Life on theUSS Lexington; Kansas City Reservists - there were no 'goldbricks' when Kansas City's Marine Reservists were called to active duty for the Korean War; Alibi on 24; ROK (Republic of Korea) Marines - The Korean Marine Corps has grown to a large combat force-in-readiness; Landlord to Royalty - Maj. Gaston Lauryssen, USMCR, is one of the world's best known hosts; If I Were a Commandant; We - The Marines; First Lady of SOPAC - Mrs. Alice Bowring ran a canteen in Noumea, New Caledonia; Rescue - Marine helicopters save Paul Polansky from Lake Michigan; Lengthy list of transfers; Rifle Award Winners - with photos of Lawrence N. Dubia, William V. Toy and Stanley S. Carr, Ernest O. Chilson, John R. Lewis, Harold B. West and Jesse G. Gradillas; Lovely one-page photo of Tuesday Weld in one-piece blue bathing suit; List of retirees, with photo of LtGen James P. Riseley; Nice color photo Budweiser ad on back cover features babe on sailboat; and more. Average wear. Bit of writong on back cover. Openings at each end of coverfold. A worthy vintage copy of this great issue. Magazine
20 pages. Features: Cover illustration (by McCall?) shows helicopters delivering diners to dinner at the 1964 World's Fair; Portrait of an Informer - Joe Valachi told all on Cosa Nostra and now lives a life of closely-guarded solitude - and fear; Much of a Woman (fiction); Tastes from Everywhere at the World's Fair - with lovely color-photo centerfold buffet display. Color ads include: Nice one-page color-photo ad for the Wide-Track Pontiac Le Mans; Fab laundry soap - with bridal theme; Scott 'soft-weve' toilet paper; Gerber baby foods; Dole pineapple; Wild one-page color-photo ad for Royal Key Lime flavor Pie Filling - with picture of green pie; Ken-L-Ration dog food; Salem cigarettes (back cover) - couple with dachshund in meadow. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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., 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.
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy without dustwrapper.
68 pages. Features: Two-page ad for Hughes helicopters; Viet Cong - A Threat to Peace; Ad for E.W. Bliss Portable Airstrips with 'slingshot'; Soviet Seacoast Defense; Interesting one-page illustrated ad for the FMC hydrofoil amphibious landing craft LVHX2; One-page ad for Boeing-Vertol helicopters; War Trends - a look ahead; Raiders - Sea and Land; Requal for Combat - a proposal for a modified and 'more realistic' system of annual requalification firing; Vo Nguyen Giap on Guerrilla War - part 2 of 5; One Man Army - Ghrkha soldier Capt Lalbahadur Thapa is credited with turning the tide of German Gen Rommel's sweep across North Africa; ROK Marines; Combat Cargo Air Delivered - the GV-1 expands our capability; Cold Weather War; Protectionism - Modern Malady; Transfers and Promotions; Back cover color ad for the Phantom II discusses its two-man crew; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
19849415Seattle WA: Jeppesen Sanderson Inc 1984. Paperback. Very Good. Includes Hughes Private Commercial Helicopter Manual Workbook Maneuvers Manual and Syllabus. Minor wear and handling to covers. Minor soiling to covers. Contains highlighting underlining. Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc paperback
340p. Hardcover Very good condition good
199223427[Zürich], Rega - Garde Aérienne Suisse de Sauvetage, 1992. In-4, pleine toile titrée, jaquette couleurs. Un ouvrage, peu courant, illustré de photographies de Friedli Engesser.
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
64 pages. Features: The Court-Martial of Smedley Butler - an off-the-cuff remark about Mussolini spelled trouble for this famous Marine Corps hero - photo-illustrated feature article; Bell Telephone ad features photo of Edward Ohm, David Hogg and Robert DeGrasse working with a large horn reflector; Nice illustrated ad for the Sikorsky S-64 flying crane; Small Atomics (bombs) - a Big Problem; Tong Yong Operation near Pusan, Korea in August 1950; Block Buster - airlifting palletized Caterpillar tractors; Flying Saucers - A Hard Look - illustrated article on ground effect vehicles; No Pitch, No Roll - article on amphibious helicopters; The Soviet Officer Corps - Just how good are the officers who command the Red Army?; Article on Soviet military pay; Organized Air-Ground Reserves - 1959; Support by Fire - Part VI - Target Information; Colt .45 vs. the Luger; Employment of Recon; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this important issue. Magazine
1st edition. VG in pictorial boards. ISBN 0861011104. 16513. eng
