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Aldridge, James SIGNED WITH THEIR HONOUR (Serial Version Appeared in Colliers Magazine as Flight to the Sun)
Boston, MA., U.S.A. Little, Brown and Company 1942 First Edition Hard Cover Good No Jacket
Blue Cloth on Boards. Volume has soiled covers, worn to the boards at the corners, dirt stain on the front page edges. Brittle cloth on the spine ends caused chips. "Signed with Their Honour (1942) James Aldridge's first novel, was published in September 1942 and reprinted Three (3) times in the same month. The novel is a story of airmen in the WWII campaign in Greece. Written in a plain, strong narrative style, and is based on his experiences as a war correspondent."
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11.50 USD
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Baughman, Harold E. Baughman's Aviation Dictionary and Reference Guide: Aero Thesaurus
Glendale, California, USA Aero Publishers 1942 Second Edition, Second Printing Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket B/W Photographs, Charts, Graphs, Tables
906 pp. Laid in a note page of errata. Aviation terminology to the date published. The names of the men, the aviation pioneers, the aircraft and the manufacturers, that have disappeared in the years following WW II.
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45.00 USD
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Caidin, Martin Cross-Country Flying : How to Make Thrilling Tours in Your Private Plane By a Famed Aviation Writer
New York, NY, U.S.A. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1961 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good James Yarnell Photographs : Fred L. Wolff Drawings
Green Cloth. Photographs by James Yarnell. Drawings by Fred L. Wolff. VG/VG. In a clear cover. "In the summer of 1960 Martin Caidin and his photographer companion made a nationwide flying trip to every one of the forty-eight continental United States. In this book, Caidin gives thorough and practical information on preparing for your trip, the trip itself, and everything you should know to make it safe and successful."
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9.50 USD
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Downer, A.E. Practical Mathematics of Aviation
Pitman Publishing Corporation 1942 Second Edition, March 1942 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Charts, Formulas, Graphs, Tables
Red cloth on boards. Volume is lightly worn on edges, corners curved. "Since the fundamentals of mathematics remain the same, no matter in what field they are applied, it becomes the purpose of this book to apply these fundamentals in the field of aeronautics. Just knowing how to do these five operations (1. addition, 2. subtraction 3. multiplication 4. division 5. roots and powers) is not enough. One must know when and where.
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12.00 USD
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Farr, Finis Rickenbacker's Luck : An American Life
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Houghton Mifflin Company 1979 0-395-27102-9 / 9780395271025 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Near Fine Illustrated with B/W Photographs
Dark grey cloth on boards. "Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, 'Ace of Aces' and the most decorated pilot of World War I, was a larger than life American hero. Captain Eddie spent nearly his entire career with automobiles or airplanes. Rickenbacker was by turns, an auto mechanic, a racing car driver, a World War I air ace, an auto manufacturer, owner of the Indianapolis Speedway, head of Eastern Air Lines. War hero, self-made man, business tycoon, pioneer in automobiles and aviation, Rickenbacker was also confidential advisor to FDR's War Secretary, Henry Stimson. This child of the machine age that drove in the daredevil days of pre-World War I automobile racing; half a century later bought the first jet planes for commercial air travel."
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65.00 USD
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Hoyt, John R. As the Pro Flies : Flying Expertly, in a Professional Manner
New York, NY, U.S.A. McGraw-Hill Book Company 1959 07-030610-9 Hard Cover Good Good Mechanical Drawings By Mary N. Hoyt, Cartoons By Mel Lazarus
Black treated paper on boards. Volume has minor wear, a couple of pages were dog eared, straightened now. "How to improve your basic skills and master the more advanced techniques of flying - for amateurs and professionals alike."
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Hyams, Joe Flight of the Avenger : George Bush at War
Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers 1991 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good B/W Photographs
Blue paper on boards, black treated paper on spine. Volume has a price in ink on the front pastedown. Jacket is lightly worn on the edges. Now in clear cover.
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Randles, Jenny UFOs & HOW TO SEE THEM
New York, NY, U.S.A. Sterling Publishing Co.,Inc. 1992 0-8069-0297-3 / 9780806902975 Pictorial Cover Very Good No Jacket
Wraps. The title says it all. Lots of photos and illustrations. Small bump to spine.
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17.50 USD
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Sampson, Anthony Empires of the Sky, The Politics, Contests and Cartels of World Airlines
New York, NY, U.S.A. Random House 1984 0-394-53343-7 / 9780394533438 First Edition, Later Printing Hard Cover Very Good Good
Black paper on boards, red cloth on spine. Volume is lightly worn. Jacket has a tear at the spine front panel, some small chips. Now in clear cover. [This book can be viewed as history, because many of these airlines no longer exsist, see the tail insigna on the cover.] "Airlines and politics have collided from the beginning. Airlines have always been seriously affected by the shifting balance of power and wealth, the swings of economic belief, the technological developments coming up against political deadlocks and restrictions. Anthony Sampson shows how the European airlines first grew up in the twenties [1920] dependent on national ambitions, and how the wartime hopes of 'freedom of the air' were soon forgotten with the revival of European nationalism. Meanwhile, American Airlines, Pan Am and TWA raced across the world under their autocrats, Juan Trippe and Howard Hughes. He describes how the development of jumbos, coinciding with the world recession, precipitated a still unresolved crisis in aviation."
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40.00 USD
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Thomas, Sir Miles Out on a Wing : An Autobiography
London, England Michael Joseph 1964 First Edition Hard Cover Good Good B/W Photographs
Black paper on boards. Volume has broken tip front top corner, the other corners are thinking about being bent. Jacket is worn all edges, a tear at the head of the spine. Now in clear cover. "Sir Thomas Miles has always been one of the leaders of the new industrial revolution. In the realm of transport, in the car industry and in aviation, his achievement as an originator and executive is a fascinating part of the recent advances that has made our world so small. Like most innovators, Miles Thomas has been a man of action. Trains fascinated him, followed by motor-cycling. For the first world war he joined the Motor Machine Gun Corps., as an armoured car driver he saw the German East African Campaign. His first experience of flying was with the Royal Flying corps in the Middle East. Miles Thomas entered motor journalism as a cub reporter, and was soon motor-race reporting from the cockpit of an aircraft all over Europe, and meeting everyone connected with the driving and building of cars. The story of Miles Thomas is also intimately the story of Lord Nuffield and of the boom years of the motor industry in Birmingham and Oxford. With the approach of the next war, relations with the Government and integration with the manufacture of aero-engines became all-important. After the war Miles Thomas' energies were harnessed to other Government projects, in Central Africa and to BOAC of which he became Chairman in 1949. Currently television is part of his story too, together with major activities in the fields of the chemical industry, agriculture, engineering and high finance. This is an autobiography by a man who has made a significant contribution - one of those who accelerated the engines which are carrying us, at an ever-increasing tempo, into the future."
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27.50 USD
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