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36 pages. Index of advertisers inside back cover. Features: Windjammer Days, by Captain C.c. Sainty; Westernmost Lighthouse in the U.S.A., by Eric Wahleen; International Tugboat Races; Princess of Vancouver; Ramblings in Indonesia, by Captain A. Cabot; Weather Observing in Ships, by L.K. McGlening; Ghosts of Old Seaman Behind Stained Glass, by Norman Hacking; Venture Proves Successful - Jervis Inlet Water Taxi Limited; New Freight Carrier Introduces "Pick a Back" System - the M.V. Clifford J. Rogers; New Company - The North Shore Dock & Warehouse Co., Ltd; ; Aerial Views of Harbours - Montreal, Sarnia, Prince Rupert, Port Alberni, Nanaimo, Victoria; Lions Gate Bridge photo taken from south end - with two handwritten names; Pilot's Convention; The Appointment of Captain Lee, by Captain Thomas Gilchrist; Half-page ad for The Black Ball Line; Mere Figureheads, by James E. Carver; M.V. Chinook II; Business is Coming to British Columbia; Sixth International Tugboat Races; They Have Passed On; Pigs and Ships. Writing on front cover. Gift inscription on President's Message page suggests this copy formerly belonged to Captain H. Roach, President of the Guild in 1955. Average wear. A sound copy. A great memento from the earlier days of west coast maritime navigation. Book
48 pages. Features: Super cover photo of a Seversky Pursuit in flight; Nice Ethyl Corporation full-page ad recalls Robert Lathan soaring over Baltimore, Maryland in 1910; Great photo ad for BG spark plugs; Guest editorial by M.E. Ashton about Canada's bush airline operators "Looking for Fair Treatment"; Nice full-page ad for Gold Flake cigarettes features a scene in Delhi, India; The Ottawa Airport Opening - photos with article; Lockheed one-page ad; The 1938 John Webster Competitions - article with many photos; Nice one-page photo ad for the De Havilland Albatross; The National Air Races - many photos of faces at Cleveland, Ohio; Stinson ad features their Reliant; Cub Fleet Tours to Hamilton aand Toronto - article with photo of Miss Alma Heflin; Highlights in the Aviation News; Toronto Flying Club has outstanding record; One-page ad for the new 1939 Aeronca "50"; Radio Equipment in the DC-4 - article with photos; Fantastic centrefold ad for Fleet Aircraft features a very large photo of one of their biplanes; Kollsman Instrument Co. full-page ad with photo of their factory; Nice ad for the Barkley-Grow T8P-1 Transport; Nice one-page Brewster ad with photos; Nice Cub ad; Great Junkers ad inside back cover highlights their material inspection laboratory; A New Addition to a Famous Family; A New Pneumatic Ski Pedestal; The Luscombe at Winnipeg; Edo Floats for Bellancas; The New Moth Minor; Luscombes attend Ottawa Airport Opening; Portable ground station by Learadio; News from the West Coast; Tale Spinning from Winnipeg; Fantastic Intava products two-colour ad on back cover features photos of the seaplane "Mercury"; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
32 pages. Features: Front cover Thompson Valves ad salutes Pan American Airways and their 107 airliners; The Moment Distribution Method for Solving Continuous Frameworks; Compound Floating Ailerons; Army Lighter-Than-Air; The Zap Flap; Effect of Controllable Pitch on Airplane Performance; The World's Largest Autogiro - ferries between two Florida country clubs; The Bryce Fuel-Injection Pump; A Radio Transmitter for the Itinerant Flyer; Symposium on Arctic and Winter Flying; Traffic Control at the Alleghany Airport; The Switlik Parachute Chair; Racon Electric Co. photo ad shows crowd at Cleveland Air Races; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Front cover Thompson Valves ad salutes Canadian Airways Limited; Shank Proportions of Aircraft Connecting Rods; Construction of Aircraft Fuel Tanks; The Effect of Change of Weight on Airplane Performance; The Value of Weight Saving in Aircraft Design; Notes on Stresses in Metal Covering Under the Action of a Uniformly Distributed Load; Copper Hydrogen Electric Welding; The New Boeing Transport; Pratt & Whitney Two-Row Engine Development; World Aviation; The Servo Control System; Bumps Due to Gusts; A Radio System for Fog Landings; The Debrie Camera; New features of the Macon; New Products; Haskelite ad features prominent illustration of the Boeing 247; Back cover Racon Electric Co. ad includes photo of huge crowd at Cleveland air races last year; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
172p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
172p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
40 page pamphlet illustrated with b&w photos, drawings and prints in dual language: French and English. Light wear to covers, scotch tape repair on back, text/interior is free of marking of any kind, tight, solid binding. Contents include: Teka the game of the gods, The games of Tahiti and polynesia: Wresting heiva moana, boxing heiva motofoot races, javelin throwing vero patia, sling shot ma'a, archery te'a, land hockey, 'apai, foot ball tuira'a poposurfing faaheeraa miti, canoe races, weight lifting, stilts rore, sled hourue holua, quoits, Melanesia: the game is a war and the war is a game, Micronesian anrib or kickball game.
pp. xiii, 752. Illustrated with numerous drawings and photographs. Edges foxed. Large 8vo. Original full cloth binding, soiled. Hardbound. First published 1939. PLANTS W132
Features: The Eagle flys - a look at America's Airborne early warning system from the eagle eye of the F-15; The Lavochkin Lagg - Soviet Russia's best WWII fighter; The Great Days of the Cleveland Air Races; Part III of the Tony Levier Story. Art: McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagles on "Bear" Alert and Airborne Alert. Some water rippling along top edge. Several small perforations to front cover. Book
Features: Dr. Dornier's great white wall - the story of the Do X 12-engined flying-boat; Fighters of the Cross of Christ - the growth of fighter squadrons in the Portuguese Air Force from 1940 to 1952; Ilyushin's Proliferous Shturmovic - II - 2nd and concluding part of ana article on the Ilyushin II-2/11-10 family; Miles M.52 - the supersonic dream - the sad story of Britain's first supersonic aircraft design; Fokker's Trimotors go to war - the use of the F VIIb-3m and other Fokker trimotors in the Spanish civil war; Old Rhinebeck's new dolphin - Cole Palen's Sopwith Dolpin replica; World's fastest mustangs - the Reno Races; Under Cover of Darkness - flying the Wellington operationally during WWII; An airline at war - the Sabena fleet from 1939 to 1945; Boeing's Fighter Finale - the detailed story of the P-26 "Peashooter"; TSR 2 - yesterday's auction to tomorrow's problem - the first fully-detailed technical description of the still-controversial TSR 2; Constellation - Lockheed's "Queen of the Skies" - an account of the origins and subsequent commercial development of the Constellation family; Back from the Graveyard - tells the story of the only surviving F4U-7 version of the famed Corsair fighter; A Revelation - HP's Flying Suitcase - wartime operations in one of the important, but less notable of the RAF's bombers of the 'thirties generation'; Biplanes for the Fliegertruppe - the first German biplanes to enter service in WW1 - the Halberstadt D series; Resuce at Ban Phanop - how the USAF flew 336 sorties in three days, in the effort to save the crew of a Phantom shot down over Vietnam; Supermarine 510 and Hawker P.1052 - the lives and times of Britain's first swept-wing jets; Halifax - bomber command's second string - the story of the Handley Page bomber that always came just second to its contemporaries; Talkback - reader comment on past issues; C-class boats at war - the operational use of Short C-Class flying-boats in the RAAF; Skymaster Story - a history of the Douglas Commercial No 4 and its military counterpart, the C-54; Mustangs in Korea - the operational use of the F-51 Mustang in Korea by units of the USAF, SAAF and RAAF; The First Fighting Spads - a highly-detailed account of the evolution, production and service use of the Spad 7. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A lovely copy. Book
221p. Hardcover Good condition, covers darkened
Oversize. 157 p., illus. w/ photographs by Morris Rosenfeld & Sons, John Hopf, & George Silk. Hardcover Very good condition good
256 p., 191 fig. in et hors texte. Couverture légèrement défraîchie. Marque d'appartenance sur le faux titre. Inv. 10115.
545 p., 272 fig. in et hors-texte. Petite mouillure claire au premier plat, intérieur frais. Petit cachet sur la garde blanche + mention manuscrite à l'achevé d'imprimer. Inv. 10010.
