Yun, CaiMareMagnum
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247 pages with b&w illustrations with movement lines on nearly every page. Chapters include Fists, palms, hooks and claws, Leg snapping (cutting and smashing, two feet kick, patting and locking ), Strength boxing, Hand to hand fight boxing, etc. Text is in Chinese and English.
50 pages. Features: Front cover Thompson Valves ad commemorates Navy flyer Lieut. Soucek and his 1930 altitude record at 43,166 feet; Good Year ad features photos of American Airways planes; Data on the strength of Aircraft Materials; Improving the Control System; Weight Reduction Versus Drag Reduction in Design; The Stark System of Instrument Flying; A New Army Fighting Grade Anti-Knock Aviation Gasoline - article by Major James H. Doolittle; Engineering Deductions of a Flight Around the World - Charles Healy Day and his Errant (Martin); The New Continental R-670; Care and Construction of Metal Propellers; 1931 Aircraft Production; Century Airlines Hangar-Terminal Building; Brief personality profile - with photo - of Charles N. Monteith, Boeing's chief engineer; Obituary of C.T. Porter; Autogiro photo ad inside back cover shows Juan De La Cierva taking off from Pier 34, New York, December 23, 1931; Nice illustrated back cover ad for the new Stinson Model "R"; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
347 pages. "Surely one of the most dramatic human adventures of our time is this amazing escape story of a German prisoner of war, sentenced to twenty-five years of forced labor in a Siberian mine. Rebelling against the brutal life of a Soviet prison camp, Clemens Forell undertook three years of lonely, fear-haunted flight across the endless wastes of Siberia - in pursuit of freedom." - from dust jacket. Average wear to unmarked book. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy mylar cover. A sound copy. Book
Features: Exclusive - For the First Time Anywhere, the Custer Flying Wing!; Rocket Fighter Pt II - Attacking the Bomber Streams; WW II's Pacific Graveyards; The Lightning in North Africa and Compressibility at 30,000 feet; Outlandish Winged wonders. Art: Lockheed P-38H; Lockheed F-5B; Messerschmitt 163S & 263; Kawanishi H8K 2 "Emily"; Mitsubishi G4M1 "Betty"; Vought F4U Corsair 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
Very Good English Original bdg. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. Many b/w plates. [xii], 340 p., 1 folding huge map. A tour through the famine districs of India.
257 pages. Author's inscription upon title page. Biography of a survivor of World War II. "As I bailed out of the side of the aircraft, I counted to five to make sure I was clear of the plane. Then I pulled the ripcord and in about two seconds there was a terrific slap on both sides of my face as the shoot straps hit me. At the same time, there was a terrific jolt as the shoot slowed my descent.... before I knew anything else, I crashed through some trees and came to a halt in pitch darkness.... I finally realized that my feet were not on the ground." Decent reading copy. Book
