Silhouette Handbook of United States Army Air Forces Airplanes
Dayton: Air Service Command, 1942. Stapled Binding.
Light rubbing to wrappers.
Unpaginated. Photographs, silhouettes, and technical information on military aircraft.
Aviation & Aeronautics
A collection of works related to the history of aviation, aeronautical engineering, biographies of aviators, space travel, etc.
Supplement Technical Manual Airplane Hydraulic Systems and Miscellaneous Equipment, August 1, 1942 (Army Air Forces Technical Training Command, Supplement No. 1, TM 1-411)
Knollwood Field, N.C. Headquarters, Army Air Forces Technical Training Command, 1942. Stapled Binding.
Ink name on front wrapper, front wrapper faintly foxed.
12 pp. CONTENTS: Master Cylinder Hydraulic Brake Systems.
Wings for Combat: The Story of the Training of an Air Force
New York: Ullman Company, Inc., 1943. Stapled Binding.
Binder's copy. Wrappers heavily rubbed with multiple creases, ink note to front wrapper verso.
80 pp. With 500 photographs printed in genuine sheet-fed gravure. Army Air Forces Training Command, Headquarters, Fort Worth, Texas. CONTENTS: The Army Air Forces Training Command; Foreword; Technical.....
Army Flyer
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Spine lightly creased, minor general wear.
xiii, 299 pp. An excellent inspirational wartime reference on what to expect as a military aviator. CONTENTS: Part One: Orientation; Part Two: Career Details; Part Three: Air Warfare.
This Flying Game
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1940. Second Edition. Hard Cover.
Second edition. Two original photographs laid in. No jacket. Front board slightly bowed, ink gift note on front free endpaper, ink stamp on rear free endpaper verso, rear endpapers lightly soiled.
xix, 307 pp. Illustrated. CONTENTS: Preface; Foreword; Early Flights.....
I Live to Fly
New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc., 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Former library copy - usual marks. Small chip along top edge of front jacket panel, small tear along top edge of rear jacket panel. Front free endpaper missing.
197 pp. Jacqueline Auriol (5 November 1917.....
The Illustrated Aviation Encyclopedia
New York: The New Home Library, 1944. Hard Cover.
Jacket edges rubbed with some small chips, small tears and creases, jacket spine faded. Rear boards bowed.
236 pp. Fully defined and explained. The technical, scientific, and slang words and terms of the new language of the air, including aircraft types.....
Those Incomparable Bonanzas
Kansas: McCormick-Armstrong Co., 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Razor cut on rear jacket panel, smudges on board edges.
xviii, 219 pp. "This is the complete book about the airplane that became the standard of the industry… the Beechcraft Bonanza! How it all started.....
The Aeroplane Speaks
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1928. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Loss to spine head, front board lightly soiled, ink name on front paste-down endpaper.
85 sketches and diagrams, glossary of terms, etc. CONTENTS: Prologue; Part I. The Elementary Principles Air Their Grievances; Part II. The Principles, Having Settled.....
The Airplane Girl and the Mystery of Seal Islands (The Airplane Girl Series)
Cleveland, O. / New York, N.Y. The World Syndicate Publishing Co., 1931. Hard Cover.
Jacket edges rubbed with some small chips and small tears. Pencil name on front paste-down endpaper.
223 pp. "A new series of books about girl aviators and their marvelous accomplishments in the air. Roberta Langwell is.....
Air Service Boys Over the Rhine; or, Fighting Above the Clouds (Book 2)
Cleveland / New York: The World Syndicate Publishing Co., 1919. Herbert, Robert Gaston. Hard Cover.
Jacket edges rubbed with some chips and some tears, jacket lightly soiled, rear jacket flap creased. Pencil name and address on front paste-down endpaper, stain along edge of first few pages.
iv, 218 pp. Two-side.....
Sisters of the Wind: Voices of Early Women Aviators
Pasadena: Trilogy Books, 1994. Trade Paperback.
Fore edge lightly smudged.
Depicts the lives of Lady Heath, Lady Bailey, Violette De Sibour, Mary Bruce, Pauline Gower, Dorothy Spicer, Amy Johnson, Jean Batten, Amelia Earhart, Anne Lindbergh, and Louise Thaden.
Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations (NASA SP-4204) (The NASA History Series)
Washington, D.C. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1978. Soft Cover.
Ink stamp and receipt on rear wrapper recto.
xx, 636 pp. Color frontispiece, black-and-white photographs. "The development of the Apollo launch facilities and launch operations is described from the beginning of design through the final launch. Management techniques, innovation in.....
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Lindbergh [Charles]
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket spine head and jacket spine base bumped. Remainder mark.
628 pp. Includes three sections of black & white photographs. "Bestselling author and National Book Award winner A. Scott Berg is the first and only writer to be.....
The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973
Washington, D.C. Office of Air Force History, 1977. Large Hardcover.
No jacket. Ink stamp on rear paste-down endpaper.
xii, 381 pp. CONTENTS: Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Air Operations in South Vietnam, 1962-1964; The In-Country Air War, 1965-1972; The Air War Against North Vietnam; Interdiction in the Laotian Panhandle; Air Operations Over.....
Victory Over the Wind: A History of the Absolute World Air Speed Record
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1983. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Sticker on rear jacket panel and two stickers on front jacket flap. Remainder mark.
xiii, 141 pp. "This book is the first complete chronicle of the attempts--successful and unsuccessful--of fliers and their machines to better the air.....
May-Day: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair
New York: Harper & Row, 1986. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket lightly crinkled.
xvi, 494 pp. "Uncovers the story of Francis Gary Powers's flight in a CIA U-2 spy plane into Soviet airspace two weeks before a vital Paris summit meeting in 1960 between Eisenhower and Khrushchev."
Barons of the Sky: From Early Flight to Strategic Warfare - The Story of the American Aerospace Industry
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.
366 pp. Black & white photographs. Without going very far beneath the surface, Biddle tells the story of the aviation pioneers whose business interests resulted in mega-corporations such as Boeing.....
Skies of WWII: Courage, Battle and Victory in the Air
New York: Chartwell Books, 2014. 3rd Printing. Large Hardcover.
3rd printing. 1/2" jacket tear repaired with clear tape on reverse.
This book contains photographs, illustrations, and detailed information about the conflicts and air battles that changed the course of history during World War II, and the innovations that impacted the.....
Flight in America, 1900 - 1983: From the Wrights to the Astronauts
Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1984. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. A near fine copy in a very good jacket. Top edge of jacket lightly rubbed with a few minor tears.
xii, 356 pp. Explains technological advances in aeronautics, assesses the links between American culture and flight technology.....
Winged Peace: The Story of the Air Age
New York: McGraw Hill, 1990. Reissue. Trade Paperback.
1990 reissue of 1944 original, with a new afterword by Arthur Bishop. Faint edge wear.
First published in 1944, Winged Peace is the story of aviation, and its future as seen through the eyes of Canada's leading fighter pilot ace in World.....
Mosquito: Wooden Wonder (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Weapons Book, No. 24)
New York: Ballantine Books, 1971. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Wrappers lightly rubbed.
160 pp. The story of the wondrous wooden airplane that saw combat in World War II.
Ridgway's Paratroopers: The American Airborne in World War II
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institue Press, 2002. Trade Paperback.
A fine copy.
x, 588 pp. Written by the best-selling author and longtime editor of The Saturday Evening Post Clay Blair, this powerful study of Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway offers both a detailed account of the legendary general's illustrious World War II.....
The B-24 Liberator: A Pictorial History
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1976. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Top edge of jacket lightly rubbed. Ink stamp on rear paste-down endpaper.
223 pp. "A fascinating history of the airplane used by the Allies from 1941-1945- a plane that was versatile and remarkable but also hard to handle.....
Bush Pilots: Daredevils of the Wilderness
Canada: Folk Lore, 2004. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition. Minor general wear.
236 pp. "It takes a special recipe--one part courage, one part skill, a big dash of crazy--to make a bush pilot. These unique aviators, flying over the vast wildernesses of the United States, Canada and Australia, often.....