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Earhart Amelia
20 hrs. 40 min.: Our Flight in the Friendship - The American Girl First Across the Atlantic by Air Tells Her Story
New York: Grosset and Dunlap 1928. Book. VG. Original Cloth. Reprint Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Dark blue cloth lettered in orange top edge stained orange. Undated vintage reprint of the original Putnam edition ca. 1929. Lightly rubbed corners and spine extremities slight binding lean text block edges a bit toned by age. Former owner's signature on front flyleaf otherwise unmarked. 314 pp. illus. w/ b&w plates. Author's first book. Grosset and Dunlap Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 040003
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Earhart Amelia Long Elgin M. and Marie K.
AMELIA EARHART: The Mystery Solved.
New York:: Simon & Schuster 1999. Fine as new in glossy illustrated wrappers. Advance Reading Copy trade paperback format. An authoritative reconstruction of Earhart's last days based on the author's extensive research and the recently rediscovered radio logs of her last transmissions. In addition this is a look at the primitive conditions under which Earhart - and other pilots of her era - flew by an experienced and ground-breaking pilot: author Elgen Long was the first person to fly solo around the world over both poles. Sources bibliography. 258pp. Simon & Schuster, unknown
Bookseller reference : 27070
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EARHART AMELIA; EDITED BY MICHELE WEHRWEIN ALBION
The Quotable Amelia Earhart
University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque:. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Winner of the 2016 Southwest Book Design and Production Award for Gift Books from the New Mexico Book Association "Adventure is worth while in itself."�Amelia Earhart 1932 A fearless pioneer and a record-breaking pilot Amelia Earhart engaged the nation and the world when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Today people remember her most for her disappearance on the last leg of her round-the-world flight in 1937. But more than a record breaker or a ghost lost over the Pacific Earhart was ambitious driven and strong at a time when all three of these traits were considered unfeminine. Earhart's words and her example encouraged women to step beyond the narrow confines of their traditional roles. The Quotable Amelia Earhart brings together statements from a variety of sources and covers a wide range of topics including Earhart's flights and her opinions on politics work religion and gender equality. This definitive resource provides a concise documented collection of Earhart's quotations so that her words as well as her achievements may inspire a new generation. 5 x 7 in. 272 pages 18 halftones. Michele Wehrwein Albion's first job was as a tour guide at a fort built in 1754. She was a curator of the Edison and Ford Winter Estates and worked at a number of other museums including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She is the author of The Quotable Eleanor Roosevelt The Quotable Henry Ford The Quotable Edison and The Florida Life of Thomas Edison. She lives in New Hampshire. "Those who know Earhart for her achievements in flight may be surprised to discover her oft-controversial views on gender marriage and family. . . . It is clear to see how Earhart's own words will surely charm readers seeking insight into the opinions of this forward-thinking pioneer." -- Choice "Consisting of quotations drawn largely from the last decade of Earhart's life the book successfully conveys her sentiments on subject such as aviation gender roles women's rights and the press. The result is a colorful and realistic narrative of 'Lady Lindy's' personal and professional life." -- Kansas History "A fascinating collection of wise and witty words. . . . Highly recommended." --American Reference Books Annual "Earhart's quotes reveal a practical-minded woman . . . who believed that women should proudly live up to their fullest potential in the workplace many decades before this belief became widely accepted in America." --Midwest Book Review University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque: hardcover
Bookseller reference : 91220X1
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EARHART Am?lia - BOUCHER Henri
Pourquoi je vole sur les mers. La disparition de Miss Earhart et les services transatlantiques. Articles (2 pages, 1 dessin) et (1 page, 3 photos, 1 carte) paru dans la revue l'Illustration.
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EARLY AVIATION: TRADE CATALOG
Aera: Specialites pour l'Aviation.
Paris: Aera Aviation 1913. First edition. Quarto 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches. 45 3 index pp. Numerous illustration of aviation supplies throughout. Publisher's brown wrappers with black cover lettering and a green white and black design of their logo a bird. An excellent copy.La Societe Anonyme d'Exploitation et de Representation Aeronautique A.E.R.A. was a French aviation supply company located in Paris at 16 Avenue de la Grande Armee. No copy of this located by OCLC or the BN but there is an OCLC record for Catalogue No. 5 and it is dated 1914. The company appears to have survived into the 1930s. Aera Aviation unknown
Bookseller reference : 73083
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EARLY AVIATION
Aero Club of America Bulletin. Vol. I No. 1 January 27th 1912.
New York: Aero Club of America 1912. A special edition of Bulletin v. 1 no. 1 with supplementary material issued on the occasion of the 6th annual dinner of the Club at Sherry's Jan. 27 1912. Limited to 400 specially bound and numbered copies. Large quarto 12 x 9 inches. 54 pp. with numerous photographic illustrations and nine full page illustrations after George Wright Henry Reutersdahl Edward Penfield J. Scott Williams Wallace Morgan John T. McCutcheon A.L. Sherzer. E.W. Kimble and Henry Raleigh. Publisher's brown wrappers front cover with gilt lettering and medallion device of the Club in gilt and blue. An excellent copy. Only three copies of this special edition located by OCLC and the only copy recorded by RBH at auction was in 1977. Together with the original menu for the banquet designed by Franklin Booth; an Aero Club of America Membership Card for C. Gouverneur Hoffman; a stapled 24-page Seating Assignment for the Banquet C. G. Hoffman present. The presumed previous owner of this packet C. Gouverneur Hoffman was a Harvard and Oxford graduate and served in the Royal Flying Corps in WWI. The special part of this deluxe issue comprises pp. 1-36 with the remainder being what is usually found in this first issue of the Bulletin. There are numerous photographically illustrated articles about the present state of flight in the special edition that are not present in the usual edition. These include; The Evolution of Aviation in 1911 by Henry Woodhouse; The Gordon Bennett Cup by Stuart Benson; Marine Flying by Henry A. Wise Wood and the First Annual Aeronautic Show by Stuart Benson. In the regular section is a long article about lighter-than-air flight as well as numerous photographs of the actual clubhouse. The guest list is quite impressive: President Taft never one to miss a meal Hon. J. Jules Jasserand French ambassador Hon. John Hayes Hammond Orville Wright Rear-Admiral Robert E. Peary Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles J. C. Montgomery Charles Dana Gibson amongst others. The Aero Club of America was a social club formed in 1905 by Charles Jasper Glidden and others to promote aviation in America. It thrived until 1923 when it transformed into the National Aeronautic Association which still exists today. It issued the first pilot's licenses in the United States sponsored numerous air shows and contests. In 1911 the Aero Club of New York put on the First Industrial Airplane Show that was held in conjunction with the 11th U.S. International Auto Show at ManhattanÕs Grand Central Palace in New York City. In 1919 the club administered the competition for the Orteig Prize. The $25 thousand prize was to be awarded "to the first aviator of any Allied Country crossing the Atlantic in one flight from Paris to New York or New York to Paris". After many failed attempts this prize was finally awarded it to Charles Lindbergh for his successful 1927 flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. Aero Club of America unknown
Bookseller reference : 73078
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EARLY AVIATION BONNET LABRANCHE Albert
Aero-Office ABL.
Paris: Typ. Chantenay 1910. -irst edition. Quarto 9 x 12 3/4 inches. 88 pp. with aeronautical photographic illustrations on virtually every page. Publisher's bright red cloth with black borders front cover bearing a ornate gilt frame with gilt lettering inside light brown endpapers. Gilt signed on the lower front cover "Librairie A. Pigoreau". Only six copies located by OCLC. A wonderful copy. There are chapters on the architecture of the exhibition aerial photography aeroplane motors and the physiology of flight but the most important chapter is that of the planes exhibited in Paris in 1910; The were: Antoinette Astra Bleriot Breguet Coanda Deperdussin Esnault-Pelterie Fabre Henri Farman Maurice Farman Goupy Hanriot Koechlin Liore Nieuport Paulhan Pischoff Santos-Dumont Saulnier Sloan Sommer Tellier Vinet Voisin A full page is devoted to the description of each aircraft and each has a large photographic illustration. Some of these planes have the distinction of being aviation firsts: Henri Marie Coanda was a Romanian inventor aerodynamics pioneer and builder of an experimental aircraft the Coanda-1910 described by Coanda in the mid-1950s as the world's first jet a controversial claim disputed by some and supported by others. In 1910 in the workshop of Gianni Caproni he designed and built an aircraft known as the Coanda-1910 which he displayed publicly at the Second International Aeronautic Salon in Paris that year. The aircraft used a 4-cylinder piston engine to power a rotary compressor which was intended to propel the craft by a combination of suction at the front and airflow out the rear instead of using a propeller. The weird-looking flying machine was called the ÒTurbo-PropulseurÓ by its inventor. Henri Fabre showed his famous hydroplane for the first time at this exhibition. On 28 March 1910 Frenchman Henri Fabre flew the first successful powered seaplane the Gnome Omega-powered Hydravion a trimaran floatplane. On that day he completed four consecutive flights the longest about 600 meters. the Hydravion has survived and is displayed in the MusŽe de l'Air in Paris. Henri Fabre was soon contacted by Glenn Curtiss and Gabriel Voisin who used his invention to develop their own seaplanes. Two of the planes shown the Nieuport IV and the Bleriot were the first planes used in war. The first use of airplanes in an actual war occurred in the 1911 Italo-Turkish War with Italian Army Air Corps BlŽriot XI and Nieuport IV monoplanes bombing a Turkish camp at Ain Zara Libya.Hcif ok Auction Galleries February 12 1996 lot 40. Ayer/Zimmer p. 162. Nissen IVB 225. he blank right margin of the other five cards. Typ. Chantenay hardcover
Bookseller reference : 73069
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EARLY AVIATION
Album Concerning the Early Years of British Aviation Pioneer A. V. Roe.
Edinburgh: N.p. 1910-1912. Original quarto album of 24 stiff leaves on stubs and the assembler has used both sides. Containing 14 original typed letters signed 19 original photographs and various pieces of ephemera. Half black roan over black cloth spine perished but still sturdy. An intriguing look into the early years of British aviation. This album was assembled by G. T. Cooper a Scotsman and an instructor at Charterhouse Public School in Godalming Surrey one of the most prestigious English private schools. Cooper was obviously enamored of early aviation and has detailed his researches and communications in this album. By 1911 Cooper had designed and constructed the first glider successfully flown at a public school in England. The "Cooper" glider had a wingspan of 24 feet and was known to have successful flights of 60 to 70 yards at a height of 18 ft. By 1912 G. T. Cooper was secretary of the Edinburgh Aeronautical Society the first in Scotland and offering all members use of a plane his a glider a sand yacht and an excellent library. There are three photographs of Cooper presumably in his glider in this album. Alliott Verdon Roe was a pioneer English pilot and aircraft manufacturer and founder in 1910 of the Avro Company. He operated a very successful flying school out of Brooklands and his company produced aircraft used by the British in WWI. In 1907 Roe began building his first full-size aeroplane the Roe I Biplane based on his winning model aircraft. He tested this at Brooklands in 1907Ã08 recording his first successful flight on 8 June 1908. After encountering problems with the management of Brooklands he moved his flight experiments to Walthamstow Marshes where he rented space under a railway arch at the western end of the viaduct. Despite many setbacks Roe persisted with his experiments and there is now a blue plaque commemorating his first successful flight in July 1909 at the site. His aircraft Avroplane a triplane is preserved in London's Science Museum. Among his other notable achievements were the Avro Monoplane the first totally enclosed airplane and the Avro Biplane the first British airplane to take off from water. He was later knighted and died in 1958. The album opens with two postcards of A. V. Roe and on the verso is a large 3 x 6 inches sample of the wing fabric known as "dope" used on his legendary triplane the Avroplane. Soon after we find 2 signed typed letters on elaborate letterhead from Robert W. A. Brewer manager of the fledgling aircraft company of C. Graham-White & Company in response to Cooper's request for a flight on their Farnham plane. The price was to be 10 guineas and the flight was to be short. Apparently the company had only one plane at that time so scheduling was nearly impossible. Both of these letters are dated May of 1910. Roe and Cooper must have become friendly as aside from the piece of original wing fabric sample from the Avroplane there are seven signed letters from Roe to Cooper all on A. V. Roe and Co. letterhead. The first one is dated December 4th 1910 at the Brooklands Track and the last is dated August 13 1912 at the Brownsfield Mills. They speak of many things including various aspects of glider design Cooper's request for a flight Roe's acceptance of an honorary position at the Edinburgh Aeronautical Society and advice on Cooper's plan to build a Hydro-Aeroplane of this last Roe states; "There is no doubt about it at all that this is the line upon which future developments will take place". The letterhead changes from reading "The Aviator's Storehouse" to "Consulting Aeronautical Engineers." There are also two lists of secondhand aircraft being sold by Roe. A new Gnome-Farnham went for 650 pounds and an Avro Triplane went for 400 pounds. The album is also strewn with various newspaper and magazine cutouts concerning Roe and a number of plates of his various planes many of which appear to be stand alone ads. There is also a letter from the British Federation of School Aero Clubs July 1911 two from Charles G. Grey editor of The Aeroplane Magazine August 1911 and July 1912 and one from The Lakes Flying Company September 1912. This last letter has a half-tone reproduction of the "Water-Bird" on its letterhead. The first product of the Lakes Flying Company was the Lakes Water Bird which first flew on 25 November 1911 but was destroyed in March 1912 when the Hangar collapsed in a gale. The Water Bird was the first successful British seaplane. G. T. Cooper was something of an aviation groupie as there are numerous keepsakes of various meets and exhibitions in the album. Toward the beginning there are 11 photographs of planes and people at the Blackpool Flying Carnival of August 1910. A Flying Carnival organized by the Lancashire Aero Club took place on August 3rd 1910 which would prove to be the last aviation event hosted at Squires Gate as the land was leased to a syndicate who built a horse racecourse that opened in 1911 but only lasted until 1914. The President of the event was the Earl of Lonsdale. Unfortunately according to Flight Magazine Roe lost two of his triplanes in transit to Blackpool so his contributions to the Carnival were minimal. Eight of the photographs are of the star of the meet Claude Grahame-White two are of Blondeau in his Farnham and one of the 'Morning Post' airship. It is during this meet that Cooper may have finally obtained his flight as there is a tipped-in "Passenger Flight Ticket". Next there are three original photographs of planes at the Brooklands-Brighton Race of May 1911. Photographs are of Pixton Hamel and an Avro Biplane. Among the other bits of important historical ephemera are two original brochures of for Keith Prowse. Keith Prowse founded the worldÕs first sales office for aeroplane flight tickets at Brooklands alongside the Bluebird restaurant and offered rides at 2 guineas for a five minute ride. Two of his brochures are included herein none previously known. Both are bifolios measuring 2 x 6 inches and both have the same art nouveau illustration of a biplane on the front. Interestingly and contrary to accepted wisdom in the first brochure Prowse's box office is shown; it is a small shack and nowhere near a restaurant. There are also two tickets for the Brooklands Motor Course dated January 21 and 28 of 1911. Cooper has annotated these: "Admission tickets on days of first two flights at Brooklands" Brooklands was originally an auto course. There is also a two page "Results of the British Circuit". This 1911 race took place on July 22 and was a 1010 miles 1630 km event with 11 compulsory stops and a circular route starting and finishing at Brooklands in Surrey. The winner was Jean Conneau flying under the name of Andre Beaumont in a Bleriot XI who took 22 hours 28 minutes to complete the course an average speed of 45 mph 72 km/h and received the first prize of £10000. The runner up was Jules Vedrines in a Morane-Borel monoplane with James Valentine in a Deperdussin third. Seventeen of the 28 contestants in this race were disqualified as either their plane did not start or only made it a short way. In one case that of Lt. J. C. Porte flying his Deperdussin monoplane the plane actually crashed. The final section of the album concern Cooper's involvement in the Aeronautical Society and include such things as a tipped-in copy of the by-laws and various printed announcements. Throughout the album there are numerous clippings and postcards having to do with Roe aviation and planes. A highly idiosyncratic yet informative firsthand view of the development of aviation in Britain. N.p. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 73395
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EARLY AVIATION ARCHIVE
An Archive Concerning Lieutenant Frederic E. Humphreys The First Army Officer To Fly Solo. These Letters Mention The Thirtieth Anniversary Of His Historic Flight
Archive. 7 pieces. 1938 to 1939. A grouping of seven pieces concerning Frederic E. Humphreys the first Army officer to fly solo. These pieces arranged in chronological order mention the thirtieth anniversary of Humphrey’s first flight. 1 TLS. 1pp. 8†x 10â€. July 18 1938. War Department. A typed letter signed “J Totten†on “War Department†letterhead concerning “Special Recognition for Colonel F.E. Humphreysâ€: “…Reference is made to your letter of November 12 1937 recommending that some form of special recognition be awarded Colonel Frederic E. Humphreys New York National Guard for being the first officer of the United States Regular Army to fly a plane alone…it is proposed to make a suitable award to Colonel Humphreys. By order of the Secretary of War…â€. 2 TL. 1pp. 8†x 10â€. July 18 1938. War Department. A typed letter that is an unsigned copy of #1. 3 TDS. 1pp. 8†x 10â€. August 3 1938. No place. A typed letter signed “Ames T. Brown†indicating that he mailed a letter to Louis L. Pendleton concerning the 30th anniversary of the flight. 4 TD. 1pp. 8†x 10â€. August 4 1938. Camp Smith Peekskill. A typed document mentioning that it is to be addressed to “Colonel Louis L. Pendletonâ€. 5 ALS. 1pp. 8†x 10â€. August 23 ’38. New York City. An autograph letter signed “L.L. Pendleton Colonel†addressed to Lieutenant Humphreys: “Please not attached papers which please return to me at your convenience. ‘The Mills of the Gods grind slow’ – it would seem – but ‘better late than never’ also applies. I hope I will be around next summer to see what they really do then!†6 TLS. 1pp. 7†x 9â€. April 5 1939. Aberdeen Proving Ground. A typed letter signed “C.M.†on “Office of the Commanding Officer Aberdeen Proving Ground†stationery. He wrote to Humphreys: “It certainly was nice to get your pleasant letter of April 3rd…my memory is quite clear as to the time you and Lahm were trying out the first Wright airplane. I am glad you enjoyed the bulletin or class letter but I prepared it quite a while before it was issued and made some serious omissions…There is a good article in the ‘Sperryscope’ Vol 8 no 10 just out by Lahm which mentions the trying experience of your pamphlet. Call up the Sperryscope Co. and get a copy from Gillmor who is an old friend of mine.†Lahm received the first flying lesson but Humphreys made the first solo flight just before Lahm made his flight. 7 Card. 1pp. No date. Governor’s Island NY. A card imprinted “Colonel Earl McFarland†and written on in pencil “My best wishes and I hope to see you soon. Governor’s Island NYâ€. unknown
Bookseller reference : 3234
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EARLY AVIATION: TRADE CATALOG
Aviation Aera.
Paris: Aviation Aera 1910. First edition. Octavo. 48 pp. Printed in blue ink and with numerous illustrations of aviation supplies throughout. Publisher's stapled blue wrappers with cover lettering in darker blue. A bit of fading to edges of wrappers but an excellent copy of this extremely early aviation trade catalog.Issued during the very infancy of flight this catalog offers everything a potential aircraft builder or repairer might want. Propellers rudders hardware engine tools; all can be found herein. No copies located by OCLC or at the Bibliotheque National.Despite the achievements of the Wright Brothers the French were the real impetus behind the burgeoning field of aviation. By the outbreak of the Great War in August 1914 French firms had built more than 2000 aircraft German firms had built about 1000 and Britain slightly fewer. American firms had built less than a hundred most of these one of a kind. Aviation Aera unknown
Bookseller reference : 73082
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EARLY AVIATION
Course Paris-Deauviille Hydroaeroplanes: Concourse d'Avions Marin.
Paris: Aero-Club de France 1913. First edition of the official program. Octavo 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. 32 pp with each page bearing a decorative border. Numerous illustrations and ads and a map of the race course. Publisher's string-tied wrappers with both covers bearing magnificent color illustrations original onionskin overlays to wrapper with the original seal for Gnome Motors. An excellent copy. No copies located by OCLC.This is a dual program; part for the Paris-Deauville Seaplane Race and part for the seaplane exhibition at Deauville. Nine pilots took off from the Seine in the race with 50000 spectators watching. Because of the harsh wind conditions many pilots had to set down and wait. George Chemet in his plane with a modest 80hp engine won the race with an average speed of less than 56 mph. Francois Mollet came in second despite his having landed his plane for a leisurely lunch at Vernon. This appears to be the second seaplane race the first having been at Monaco a few months earlier. The seond part of this meet followed the basically standard routine; tests for duration height etc. Of course sea-worthiness was added as a category. There were 13 participants in this event. After to winnowing the field to eight flyers the final event took place on on August 29th and after. "Although before the competition observers had been worried about the severity of the requirements on the first day Molla's Leveque plane took the prize for the best average over 250 nautical miles with a speed of 53.18mph including one stop. Moineau's Breguet won the prize for speed over 100 nautical miles with 62mph" Nicolaou: Flying Boats and Seaplanes. Eugene Renaux in his Maurice-Farman biplane won the award for distance. The engines that fared well were the non-rotary engine and overall the planes were more powerful than at the earlier Monaco meeting. There was an ulterior motive for this race as France wanted to decide on which plane to buy for its military they chose the Breguet H-U3. Aero-Club de France unknown
Bookseller reference : 74188
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EARLY AVIATION
Curtiss Areoplanes.
Garden City: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation ca. 1920. Advertising booklet. 3 1/2 x 6 1/24 inches. 32 pp. Well illustrated from photographs. Publisher's stiff pictorial wrappers. Some light edge-wear and Curtiss distributor's stamp on inner front cover but a very good example.Scarce advertising piece for Curtiss bi-planes. Includes a list of notable Curtiss achievements at the end. Six types of planes are offered Curtiss "JN"; Curtiss Oriole; Curtiss Seagull; Curtiss-Motored Standard J-1; Curtiss Wasp; Navy-Curtiss 4; Curtiss Eagle as well as two types of engines Curtiss K-6 Aeronautical Motor; Curtiss K-12 Aeronautical Motor. All are illustrated from photographs. Glenn Curtiss is often referred to as the father of naval aviation. Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation unknown
Bookseller reference : 71114
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EARLY AVIATION
Curtiss Training Camps; Newport News VA. Buffalo N.Y. Hammondsport N.Y.
Buffalo: Curtiss Areoplane Co. 1916. First edition. Octavo. 8 pages with photographic illustrations throughout. Publisher's stapled card wrappers with the front bearing a photographic illustration of the hangar at Newport News. An excellent copy of this genuinely rare item. No copies located by OCLC.The Arthur Nutt Collection at the Smithsonian has a listing with no bibliographic details for an item with the same title but the imprint is different: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation. This seems to have been issued to advertise the opening of the Curtis Flying School in Newport News. Curtiss started the Atlantic Coast Aeronautical Station on a 20-acre tract east of Newport News VA Boat Harbor in the Fall of 1915 with Captain Thomas Scott Baldwin as head. It soon changed its name to Curtiss Flying School. With the outbreak of World War I in Europe in 1914 Curtiss had a very good reason to open another flying school. His existing schools in Hammondsport and Buffalo N.Y. San Diego and Toronto were not only filled to capacity by would-be fliers from Canada Britain and other countries but also straining to keep up with wait lists that numbered in the hundreds. Many civilian students including Canadians later became World War I flyers. Victor Carlstrom Vernon Castle Eddie Stinson and Gen Billy Mitchell trained here. Students would work toward completing the Aero Club of America pilot's license. The initial cost was one dollar a minute for the four-hundred-minute course $8600 in 2010 dollars. In 1917 the U.S. Army took over operations during World War I. After the war control went back to Curtiss who closed operations in 1922. This brochure states that all experimental work was done at the Virginia school. Instruction in sea and land planes was offered at both Newport News and Buffalo but the Hammonsportschool only offered land-based planes. Curtiss Areoplane Co. unknown
Bookseller reference : 73073
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EARLY AVIATION; PERIODICAL
Flight. Vol. III No. 27.
London: Royal Aero Club of the United Kingsom 1911. Quarto. 2 ads 581-602 2 ads pp. Numerous photographic illustrations and ads Publisher's printed mauve wrappers. Bit of spine rubbing but clean and tight.The main article in this issue is about the race for the Gordon-Bennet Cup at Eastchurch. The Gordon Bennett Aviation Trophy was an international airplane racing trophy awarded by James Gordon Bennett Jr. the American owner and publisher of the New York Herald newspaper. Curtiss won the first Cup Claude Graham-White the second and as we learn from the issue C. T. Weyman won the third cup 1911. Weyman was an American and flew a Nieuport aeroplane. Eleven pages are devoted to a detailed account of the race. Royal Aero Club of the United Kingsom unknown
Bookseller reference : 74126
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EARLY AVIATION LALAU Maurice illustrator
Grand Prix d'Aviation de L'Aero-Club de France.
Paris: Impressions dÕArt Pierre Lafitte & Cie. 1912. First edition. Octavo. 2 ads 20 2 blank 2 ads pp. All pages with highly ornate and colored floral borders likely by Laalu. Includes 4 full page maps of the routes and one double page map. PublisherÕs sewn color pictorial wrappers and in the original onion skin overlay with rear seal intact. Mild foxing to extreme edges of front wrapper and rear corner of onion skin overlay bent. A lovely copy. None located in OCLC or in the Bibliotheque National. This is the official program there is a notice on the onionskin reading ÒSeul Programme OfficielÓ for the 1st Grand Prix Race of the Aero Club of France. The Aero-Club de France was founded as the Aero-Club on October 20 1898 as a society 'to encourage aerial locomotion' by Ernest Archdeacon LŽon Serpollet Henri de la Valette Jules Verne and his wife AndrŽ Michelin Albert de Dion Alberto Santos-Dumont Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe and Henry de La Vaulx. On April 20 1909 its name was changed to Aero-Club de France. The Aero-Club de France originally set many of the regulations that controlled aviation in France. The first Grand Prix of Aviation of the Aero Club of France was held on June 16 & 17 of 1912. It was the first contest to judge the extent to which the airplane could be depended on as an instrument of war. It was held over a one hundred and fifty-seven kilometer triangle course between the towns of Anger Cholet and Saumur in the region of Anjou in Western France. Thirty-seven manufacturers entered their machines and practically all the famous pilots of Europe were on hand along with most of the military attaches stationed in Paris. On the first day a terrible storm broke out with pounding rain and fierce winds. It caused many of the pilots and planes to drop out. Only Roland Garros stayed in the competition winning the race in 15 hours in his monoplane Bleriot. He won the grand prize of 50000 francs awarded by the Aero Club de France the first prize of 20000 francs for speed and a further prize of 500 francs for another event. The bravery evinced by Garros made him a living legend On 5 October 1918 he was shot down and killed near Vouziers Ardennes a month before the end of the war and one day before his 30th birthday. For the 1912 competition the rules were considerably elaborated. The flight had to be made over a course made up of three different circuits each starting from the same point. The first and third each of about 500 km 310 mi had to have three or four compulsory landing-places and the second of 255 km 158 mi one or two landing places. Refueling was only allowed at the starting point of each circuit. The circuits had to be covered in order and if a competitor landed somewhere other than a nominated airfield they had to start that circuit again. For every 75 kg of useful load carried apart from the pilot and necessary fuel a bonus of 25% was allowed on the time up to a maximum of 100 per cent. The extra load could be made up of passengers or ballast. Competing aircraft had to carry a sealed barograph and an average speed of at least 40 km/h 25 mph had to be maintained. The front cover bears a beautiful color illustration by French artist Maurice Lalau depicting a beautiful French maiden letting some doves free from a basket. He is probably best known for his book Tabubu published in 1928 and arguably the finest illustrated book of the French Art Deco period. The rear cover bears a color ad for a Renault car naturally with a plane flying above. Impressions dÕArt Pierre Lafitte & Cie. unknown
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EARLY AVIATION: TRADE CATALOG
L. Bleriot: Recherches Aeronautiques.
Levallois: Draeger 1911. First edition. Quarto. ii 23-24 pp. including a full page color illustration of Bleriot's famous crossing of the English Channel. Text in French but a goodly part of the publication is taken up with photographic illustrations; design committee Study committees assembling the fuselage six views of factory interior numerous photographs of various different Bleriots on land and aloft. portraits of famous Bleriot pilots Graham White etc pilot school and two pages of all the flying awards bestowed upon Bleriot planes. Publisher's decorative gray wrappers with lettering and Bleriot insignia eagle carrying an olive wreath in raised gilt. An excellent copy. Only three copies located by OCLC. Louise Bleriot was one of the five most famous aviators in the infancy of flight. The worldÕs first international overseas airplane flight was achieved by French aviator Louis Bleriot in a monoplane on July 25 1909. He took off from France and landed in England near Dover where he was greeted by the British police. He financed his aeronautical ambitions with the money he received from developing developed the first practical headlamp for trucks. Between July 1909 and the beginning of World War I in August 1914 the Bleriot factory became the industry leader and produced more than 800 aircraft many of them Type XI monoplanes or variations of that design. Draeger unknown
Bookseller reference : 74123
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EARLY AVIATION
Les Etapes de l'Aviation.
Paris: C.M. ca. 1911. First edition. Oblong octavo consisting of 20 photographic illustrations of early aeroplanes each with a caption beneath in French. All with tissue guards. Publisher's printed brown wrappers with the front bearing images of a biplane and a monoplane. No copies located by OCLC. A very good copy. There is no information about this publication but likely it was meant to accompany "Les Etapes de l'Aviation: ConfÂŽrence Faite le 12 DÂŽcembre 1909" by Mathieu Varille. The conference was held in Lyon perhaps in anticipation of their 1910 air meet. Many of the much monkeyed with photographs herein are by M. Branger a well known early aviation photographer. C.M. unknown
Bookseller reference : 74173
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EARLY AVIATION
Lindbergh in Paris: All the Photos! cover title.
Paris: Editions Nilsson 1927. First edition. Quarto 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches. 23 1 pp. bearing 44 photographic illustrations of the hero's welcome given to Charles Lindbergh in Paris after his famous transatlantic flight. All illustrations captioned and no other text. Publisher's string-tied wrappers with a tipped-on photographic illustration on the front. Date written in upper margin of first page in a neat and diminutive hand. An excellent copy scarce in this county. Editions Nilsson unknown
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March 5-12: First National Exposition of Aerial-Craft and Motor Trucks.
Washington D.C.: National Aviation Company 1911. First edition and the only known copy. Octavo. 16 pp. with ads and photographic illustrations throughout. Publisher's printed brown wrappers with lettering and images of a biplane and a truck on the front. Lower margin with a one inch tear not into image repaired. A very good copy.No copies located by OCLC. Inner and outer rear cover with ads for trucks and the inner front cover is an ad for the National Aviation School in Maryland. Also of interest is a full page page biography and photograph of Glenn Curtiss scheduled to become the director of the Aviation School for the National Aviation Company. The National Aviation Company was formed to give instruction in Curtiss Bleriot and Wright aeroplanes and provide repairs for these machines. The National Aviation Company was the sole agent for Curtiss aeroplanes in the Washington Maryland and Virginia area. There is a page with a photographic illustration of Curtiss winning the Gordon Bennett Trophy at Rheims; a photograph of the Wright plane at Fort Myer; and an advertisement for and a photographic illustration of the Rooney Multiplane with three front and rear wings and a photograph of Langley's Aerodrome on a houseboat in Virginia as well as a separate article on Prof. Langley. There is also an ad for a distributor of Thor Motorcycles."Washington will have its first national aeronautical exposition of March 5 to 12 inclusive. The exhibit will be held in Exposition Hall one of the largest buildings in the country. which has just been completed at M and North Capitol Streets. At least ten machines representing various types of monoplanes and biplanes will be on exhibit for eight days. In addition to aeroplanes models gliders aerial motors propellers and hangars aeronautical supplies of all kinds will be shown. Automobiles and motor trucks will also be exhibited" Aeronautics March 1911 National Aviation Company unknown
Bookseller reference : 73079
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EARLY AVIATION: TRADE CATALOG
Maximotor Aviation & Marine: "In a Class by Itself".
Detroit: Maximotor Makers. First edition. Octavo. 16 pp. with numerous photographic illustrations of planes and engines. Publisher's pictorial slate green wrappers with boat and plane designs on front with lettering in blue and black. A very good copy. None located by OCLC.Maximotors known until 1911 as the Detroit Aeronautic Construction Company was the creation of Maximillian Dingenfelter. Dingenfelter was very well known at the time as he was the designer of the famous Daimler engine used in the Mercedes of the era. He was the first man to drive a car in Detroit preceding Ford by a long time. Prior to entering the field of aeronautics he designed marine motors and three times won the Detroit Marine Race. From 1908 to 1911 he spend most of his time researching and designing airplane motors. The Maximotor 70 hp Model B-4 discussed herein and it was the last of several that powered Thomas S. Baldwin's Red Devil III aircraft. Maximotors were used on aircraft such as those built by Wright Curtiss Bleriot and Farman and Antoinette. He also received a patent 991770 in 1911 for stability and steering rudders. It is likely that this was his first aviation catalog. Laid in are tow postcards dated January and March of 1912 from a Mr. K. Nakagawa of Kobe Japan requesting a catalog and thanking Maximotors for sending a catalog. Also laid in is a self-addressed stamped postcard to Maximotors. A customer merely had to fill out the card and mail it and he would receive a catalog. Maximotor Makers unknown
Bookseller reference : 73416
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Naiad Aeronautical Cloth.
New York: The C. E. Connover Company ca. 1910. First edition of this sample catalog. Small bifoloium 3 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches; 4 pp. On the cover is a photographic illustration of a Wright Model A in flight and using Naiad cloth for the wings. Inside are four actual cloth samples with their prices on the opposing page. The rear cover is taken up with an explanation of the various benefits of the four cloths advertised. Some edge wear but a very good copy of this extremely ephemeral piece of early aviation advertizing. No copies have ever been recorded or sold.C. E. Connover began his Naiad manufacture around 1906 in order to sell "Dress Shields". In the days before modern antiperspirants these shields were placed by women in the underarm in order to alleviate unsightly sweat marks. He soon realized that he had the machinery and know-how to manufacture cloth known in the aviation world as "dope' for airplane wings in the nascent aviation market. Connover's cloth was very widely used and very well regarded. Among others it was used on the Herring-Burgess Model A the Cooley Airship and many others. The C. E. Connover Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 73408
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EARLY AVIATION: TRADE CATALOG
Navigation of the Air cover title.
Savannna: Batson Air Navigation Company 1913. First edition. Small octavo 20 pp. with 6 full page artistic rendering of the the six-winged air yacht. Publisher's string-tied blue wrappers with raised gilt lettering Navigation of the Air on the front. Laid is is a Financial Plan for the Batson Air Navigation Company in which Batson offers Preferred and Common Stock he even included a sase. A wonderful copy. OCLC only locates one copy. The Batson Air Navigation Company began setting up its Dutch Island manufacturing facility in early 1913 and went to work straight away planning the Batson Aero Yacht. An early aeronautic visionary Matthew A. Batson imagined building the boat-like aircraft to easily carry cargo crew and passengers across the Atlantic Ocean to Liverpool England. Passenger fare would be no small amount at $2000 for the projected 36-hour flight. The airframe consisted of six forty-foot wings and a gondola type cabin fixed with struts and braces to a seventy-foot pontoon. Powered by three 120 hp Emerson six cylinder engines On November 17 1913 BatsonÕs highly anticipated invention was finally afloat on the waters of the Herb River in its debut to reporters and spectators from near and far. Although there are mixed reports of exactly how and when it happened while anchored in the river the plane was damaged in an apparent accident. Not long after it was announced that all Aero Yacht activities were suspended and a smaller version of the aircraft later dubbed the Dragonfly would be constructed to carry out all future trials. Pioneer aviators and engineers from around the world flocked to Savannah to inspect the planes and offer their assistance but the fate of Captain BatsonÕs invention seemed to have already been determined. Due to a lack of continued support the Aero Yacht would never get off the ground to make its transatlantic flight. Batson Air Navigation Company unknown
Bookseller reference : 74122
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EARLY AVIATION MORRISS Bud
Original Photograph and Stickpin.
Chicago and Grand Rapids: Bud Morriss Airplane School 1916. Original photograph of "Bud" Morriss and his chief engineer Tony Stadlman at the controls of his flying boat. Photograph measures 3 x 2 1/2 inches. It is in the original frame and with the original label on the verso which reads; "This is an authentic photograph taken in Grand Rapids 1915 of P. G. B. Bud Morris at the controls of his Benoist Flying Boat accompanied by his Chief mechanician Tony Stadlman who later became Superintendent of the Lockheed Airplane Company of Burbank." Together with an original stickpin for the school in brass and blue and with an image of a biplane. It reads "Bud Morriss Airplane School Chicago 1916." The original celluloid covering the photograph is still present. Rare mementos of an early and influential aviator and his aviation school.Percival George Brockhurst Morriss 1884-1944 a native of England learned to fly at Brooklands racetrack in 1909. Soon after that he came to the United States. A former assistant engineer in the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company he championed the use of wireless to communicate with airplanes in flight. Later the same year he learned to fly a Bleriot in England and then joined the Curzon aviators. In 1914 he operated a flying boat service on the Chicago lake front and in the same year was managing editor of Aero & Hydro an aviation weekly paper. In 1915 he opened the Bud Morriss Flying School in Chicago. His next venture was with the Benoist Aeroplane Co. of St. Louis serving successively as assistant pilot and instructor Chief instructor and finally as vice-president and sales engineer. In 1917 he served as a member of the Chicago Aero Commission. During the First World War he enlisted as a seaman in the Navy in which he served for 18 months. Upon discharge Morriss was executive officer of aviation schools at a naval air station. Anthony Stadlman was in 1886 in Bohemia. He emigrated to the United States from his home in what was then Czechoslovakia in 1906 ispired by news of the aviation work of Orville and Wilbur Wright. By 1910 he was helping to build flying machines at the Chicago School of Aviation. For a short while he was chief engineer at the Bud Morris Aviation School. The Lockheed Aircraft Corporation originally called the Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company was organized in the summer of 1916 by brothers Allan and Malcolm Loughead. Their plant was located in the rear of a garage on State Street in Santa Barbara. Tony Stadlman met Allan Loughead on a Chicago airfield and became superintendent of manufacturing when the company changed its name to Lockheed in 1927. Bud Morriss Airplane School unknown
Bookseller reference : 73081
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EARLY AVIATION HESS Victor Franz
Osterreichischer Aero-Club Jahrbuch 1911.
Wein: Verlag von L.W. Seidel & Shon 1912. First edition. Narrow octavo. 238 1 12 ads for aviation products pp. Illustrations from photographs. Publisher's flexible salmon cloth with gilt spine lettering. Some fading to cloth and tips a bit bruised but a very good copy. Includes a list of members list of competitions and awards and various articles relevant to flight at that time. The great engineer Alexander Cassinone was vice-president of the Areo-Club of Austria at that time. He was involved in submarine design and in the construction of the Airship M.III. "For M.III the Austrians went with a local design by Alexander Cassinone general director of Kšrting …sterreich. She made her first flight in January 1911 and immediately proved successful. Powered by two 75-horsepower engines she was the only Austrian airship with a radio and carried a crew of seven. On 20 June 1914 while she hovered over Fischamend testing new camera equipment an Army pilot flying a new French-made Farman biplane tried to loop the floating gasbag. He veered too close and ripped the top of the envelope open; the escaping hydrogen met his engine and exploded. All seven aboard the airship plus the two men in the airplane were killed." This publiation bears a photograph of the airship and of Cassinone. Of great great note in this publication is an article on the the groundbreaking experiments by Victor Franz Hess on cosmic radiation ÒAeronautische RadiumforschungÓ pp. 102-108. "In 1910 Theodor Wulf making experiments on the Eiffel Tower observed that the ionization of the atmosphere at a height of 300 meters above a gammaray source is greater than that at a distance of 300 horizontal meters. He thus admitted the possibility of extraterrestrial sources for such radiation and suggested that this hypothesis might be confirmed by balloon experiments. A. W. F. E. Gockel among others attempted such experiments but achieved no definite results. Hess took up the problem stated by Wulf in 1911. He first verified the rate of absorption of gamma rays and then with the help of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Austrian Aeroclub made ten difficult and daring balloon ascensions collecting data with improved instrumentation. He reached a height of 5350 meters with striking results. He was able to establish that to a height of approximately 150 meters above sea level radiation decreased according to known laws while at greater heights radiation increased steadily following approximately the same laws. He found radiation at 5000 meters to be several times greater than that at sea level and also that radiation at all levels was the same night or day and therefore not the result of the direct rays of the sun. He was thus able to conclude that the radiation he recorded at high altitudes entered the atmosphere from above and was in fact of cosmic origin" Encyclopedia.com. Verlag von L.W. Seidel & Shon hardcover
Bookseller reference : 73071
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Rapport Officiel sur la Deuxieme Exposition Internationale de Locomotion Aerienne: Organisee par l'Association des Industriels de la Locomotion Aerienne au Grand-Palais 15 Octobre-2 Novembre 1910.
Paris: Librairie Aeronautique 1911. First edition. Quarto 9 x 12 3/4 inches. 88 pp. with aeronautical photographic illustrations on virtually every page. Publisher's bright red cloth with black borders front cover bearing a ornate gilt frame with gilt lettering inside light brown endpapers. Gilt signed on the lower front cover "Librairie A. Pigoreau". Only six copies located by OCLC. A wonderful copy. There are chapters on the architecture of the exhibition aerial photography aeroplane motors and the physiology of flight but the most important chapter is that of the planes exhibited in Paris in 1910; The were: Antoinette Astra Bleriot Breguet Coanda Deperdussin Esnault-Pelterie Fabre Henri Farman Maurice Farman Goupy Hanriot Koechlin Liore Nieuport Paulhan Pischoff Santos-Dumont Saulnier Sloan Sommer Tellier Vinet Voisin A full page is devoted to the description of each aircraft and each has a large photographic illustration. Some of these planes have the distinction of being aviation firsts: Henri Marie Coanda was a Romanian inventor aerodynamics pioneer and builder of an experimental aircraft the Coanda-1910 described by Coanda in the mid-1950s as the world's first jet a controversial claim disputed by some and supported by others. In 1910 in the workshop of Gianni Caproni he designed and built an aircraft known as the Coanda-1910 which he displayed publicly at the Second International Aeronautic Salon in Paris that year. The aircraft used a 4-cylinder piston engine to power a rotary compressor which was intended to propel the craft by a combination of suction at the front and airflow out the rear instead of using a propeller. The weird-looking flying machine was called the ÒTurbo-PropulseurÓ by its inventor. Henri Fabre showed his famous hydroplane for the first time at this exhibition. On 28 March 1910 Frenchman Henri Fabre flew the first successful powered seaplane the Gnome Omega-powered Hydravion a trimaran floatplane. On that day he completed four consecutive flights the longest about 600 meters. the Hydravion has survived and is displayed in the MusŽe de l'Air in Paris. Henri Fabre was soon contacted by Glenn Curtiss and Gabriel Voisin who used his invention to develop their own seaplanes. Two of the planes shown the Nieuport IV and the Bleriot were the first planes used in war. The first use of airplanes in an actual war occurred in the 1911 Italo-Turkish War with Italian Army Air Corps BlŽriot XI and Nieuport IV monoplanes bombing a Turkish camp at Ain Zara Libya. Librairie Aeronautique hardcover
Bookseller reference : 73415
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EARLY AVIATION
Salon De l'Aeronautique 1913.
Paris: L'Auto 1913. First edition. Bifolio 16 3/4 by 24 inches. Now separated into two leaves but complete. Photographic illustrations. Very good. A free newspaper supplement detailing the 1913 Air Meet in France. The third page bears photographic illustrations of the winners and include; Monoplane Nieuport; Monoplane Morane-Saulnier; Biplan Breguet; Hydravion Borel; Biplan H. Farman; Monoplan Bleriot; Hydravion M. Farman; Hydravion Caudron. There are alos photographic portraits of 10 pilots including one woman: Mme de Laroche. Born on 22 August 1882 in Paris Elise Raymonde Deroche was the daughter of a plumber. She had a fondness for sports as a child as well as for motorcycles and automobiles when she was older. As a young woman she became an actress and used the stage name "Raymonde de Laroche". Inspired by Wright's demonstations of flight in Paris in 1908 she decided to become a pilot. "In October 1909 de Laroche appealed to her friend aviator and aeroplane builder Charles Voisin to instruct her in how to fly. On 22 October 1909 de Laroche went to the Voisin brothers' base of operations at Chalons 90 miles east of Paris. Voisin's aircraft could seat only one person so she operated the plane by herself while he stood on the ground and gave instructions. After she mastered taxiing around the airfield she lifted off and flew 300 yards. De Laroche's flight is often cited as the first by a woman in a powered heavier-than-air craft; there is evidence that two other women P. Van Pottelsberghe and ThÂŽrÂse Peltier had flown the previous year with Henri Farman and Delagrange respectively as passengers but not as pilots. On 8 March 1910 de Laroche became the first woman in the world to receive a pilot licence when the Aero-Club of France issued her licence #36 of the FÂŽdÂŽration AÂŽronautique Internationale International Aeronautics Federation or F.A.I." Wiki. L'Auto was the main French sports daily issued from 16 October 1900 to 17 August 1944 . Founded under the title L'Auto-VÂŽlo 1900-1902 by its founder director Henri Desgrange this organized the Tour de France. It was banned from publication in 1944 because it was considered favorable to the German Occupation. L'Auto unknown
Bookseller reference : 73067
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EARLY AVIATION MEET
Semaine d'Aviation d'Anvers 23 Oct.-2 Nov 1909/De Vliegweek van Antwerpen 23 Oct.-2 Nov. 1909.
Anvers: Des Presses de l'Etab Van Os-De Wolf 1909. First edition of the brochure for first air meet in Belgium. Oblong quarto 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. 4 pp. of text including a birds-eye view of the ground on the last page and 14 pp. of photographic illustrations usuallly 3 to 4 images per page and printed on rectos only on high quality paper. Text in French and Dutch but photograph captions in French only. Publisher's printed blue wrappers front cover with a fine art deco scene of a gathering at the meet after an original design by Alfred Joseph Auguste Van Neste. Blue cloth spine probably a later addition but melds well. 4 copies located by OCLC. A very good copy. Together with two RPPCs of Baron de Caters in flight dated 1910. The real story of this meet is Baron de Caters the first Belgian to be granted a pilot's license from the Belgian Aero-Club. It appears that none of the premier aviators of the day participated in this meet so much focus is given to Belgian pilots and planes chief amongst them being Pierre de Caters. Pierre Henri Marie AmÂŽdÂŽe Baron de Caters de Bosschaert was the son of an Antwerp businessman from which he inherited his noble title in 1884. In his youth he practiced tennis fencing cycling and other sports and after a brief effort at a military career he started an electrical engineering education. In 1897 he unexpectedly inherited an enormous fortune reportedly worth the then fabulous sum of six million francs after a distant aunt. After winning a three-year court fight with his relatives over the validity of her will he started spending the money on cars motorboats and aeroplanes.His interest then turned to aviation and he became Belgium's first pilot. In 1908 he ordered two planes from the Voisin brothers one triplane and one biplane and built a private airfield at the family palace in 's-Gravenwezel near Antwerp. He made his first flights in the triplane which he soon abandoned during the second half of October 1908. From the autumn of 1909 to late 1910 he participated in several meetings foremost among them the one offered here and bought four more Voisins. He also performed in several towns in Eastern Europe and in Turkey and Egypt. In February 1910 he started building his own planes under the name "Aviator" together with the brothers EugÂne Joseph and Isidore Bollekens who ran a woodworking business and first learned to know him when repairing his planes after his several crashes during the 1909 Antwerp meeting. He also participated in the training of the first Belgian Army pilots. In late 1910 he went to Asia together with fellow Belgian pilot Jules Tyck flying in several towns in India and marketing his planes. By 1911 his inherited money had run out. He retired from aviation and was forced to sell his part of the Aviator company." The First Air Meets. . (Des Presses de l'Etab Van Os-De Wolf) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 74171
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The Air Way; Official Handbook Describing the Activities of Imperial Airways Ltd. With Map of the London-Ostend Brussels Cologne; London-Amsterdam Routes.
London: Imperial Airways Ltd. 1928. First edition Octavo. 68 pp. including numerous photograph illustrations and ads. Publisher's printed blue wrappers with darker blue lettering. Some foxing to to wrapper edges else a very good copy.withMap of the London-Ostend Brussels Cologne; London-Amsterdam Routes. London: Imperial Airways Ltd. 1928. First edition. Folding color printed map measuring 30 x 20 inches. Folding into publisher's blue printed folder measuring 8 1/2 x 10 inches. An excellent copy.OCLC records two versions of this handbook; one of 68 pp. and the other of 80 pp. Presumably the shorter one was issued first. There are six records for the longer version and only three for the shorter. OCLC only locates one copy Virginia Tech of the map.A fine look into early passenger service in Britain and Europe in the 1920s. Imperial Airwas was formed in 1924 to compete with the heavily subsidized airlines of France and Germany. It was formed out of the merger of the four leading British airways; the Instone Air Line Company owned by shipping magnate Samuel Instone Noel Pemberton Billing's British Marine Air Navigation part of the Supermarine flying-boat company the Daimler Airway under the management of George Edward Woods and Handley Page Transport Co Ltd. While it was formed to compete in the European market one of its main goals was to facilitate overseas settlement by making travel to and from the British colonies quicker and that flight would also speed up colonial government and trade that was until then dependent upon ships. Typically there were fewer than 20 passengers aboard a flight. In the handbook we can see that wicker chairs were used for seating. For the short hops Handley Page aircraft were usually used. Their home port was Croydon In 1940 Imperial was subsumed into British Airways. Maggs Brothers has a full page ad on p. 43. Imperial Airways, Ltd. unknown
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The Cody Flyer".
Gale & Polden Printers : Aldershot Hampshire England 1913. First edition Tall octavo. 12 pp. including 11 photographic illustrations and one diagram of the Cody Monoplane. Publisher red wrappers with gilt cover lettering. In the original printed envelope. Aside fron a bit of rust from the staples an excellent copy. Only 1 copy located by OCLCThis is mainly a sales brochure for the Cody Monoplane but the first two pages are taken up with his famous War Kite.Samuel Franklin Cowdery was born in 1867 in Davenport Iowa was a Wild West showman and early pioneer of manned flight. He changed his name to Cody at age 21 when he was part of a touring Wild West show not to be confused with that of Buffalo Bill Cody. He is most famous for his work on the large kites known as Cody War-Kites that were used by the British in World War I as a smaller alternative to balloons for artillery spotting. Financed by his Wild West shows Cody's unusual interest in manned kites advanced significantly when he enlarged upon Lawrence Hargrave's double-cell box kite to increase its lifting power especially by adding wings on either side. He patented his design in 1901 and it became known as the Cody kite. Cody eventually managed to interest the British Army in his kites. In 1906 he was appointed Chief Instructor of Kiting for the Balloon School in Aldershot and soon after joined the new Army Balloon Factory down the road at Farnborough. The Factory would eventually become the Royal Aircraft Establishment. In 1908 the War Office officially adopted Cody's kites for the Balloon Companies he had been training. This group would in due course evolve into the Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers No. 1 Company of which later became No. 1 Squadron Royal Flying Corps and eventually No. 1 Squadron Royal Air Force. During 1907 he was given full authority as the designer of the the British governments dirigible understructure and propulsion system. On 5 October 1907 Britain's first powered airship British Army Dirigible No 1 and using Cody's engine the Nulli Secundus flew from Farnburough to London. In 1907 the British Army decided to back the development of Cody's powered aeroplane the British Army Aeroplane No 1. His flight of 16 October 1908 is recognized as the first official flight of a piloted heavier-than-air machine in Great Britain. He went on to win a number of aeronautical awards and started developing his own aircraft company. That company produced the Cody Flyer a monoplane for which this pamphlet was issued. On 7 August 1913 he was test flying his latest design the Cody Floatplane when it broke up at 200 feet and he and his passenger the cricketer William Evans were killed.H Aldershot, Hampshire [England] unknown
Bookseller reference : 73412
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EARLY AVIATION
The First Flight in Japan.
Yoyogi Japan: N.p. 1911. Original vintage silver gelatin photograph measuring 6 x 4 /14 inches. Very good. This very rare photograph shows the plane on the field ready for take off with a number of cars behind it. On the verso we read in contemporary manuscript- "The first areoplane flight in Japan. Captain Tokugawa about to start in his monoplane at the army maneuver field.". Below that is a stamp - "Newspaper Enterprise Association Pacific Bureau Feb 6 1911". Tokugawa Yoshitoshi was the son of Count Tokugawa Atsumori 1856�1924 head of the Shimizu branch of the Tokugawa clan. Through his father he was the grandnephew of the last shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu. While his father had been created a count in 1884 he had relinquished the title in 1899. In 1909 Tokugawa was sent as a military attache to France specifically to study aeronautical engineering and military applications for the use of aircraft in combat. He purchased a Farman III biplane which he shipped back to Japan. On 19 December 1910 Tokugawa flew Japan's first successful powered aircraft flight at Yoyogi Parade Ground where Tokyo's Yoyogi Park is now located only seven years after the Wright Brothers' flight in the United States. On 5 April 1911 Tokugawa piloted the inaugural flight at Japan's first permanent airfield in Tokorozawa. Tokugawa came to be known in Japan as "the Grandfather of Flight". Obviously there is a disconnect between Wiki data and the wire service stamp on the back of the photo. The plane shown is absolutely not a Farman they did build a monoplane for 2 years later and much different in appearance. The date-stamp is a clear and unequivocal indication that this photo predates the Wiki account and that the plane in question resembles a 1910 Grade monoplane but could be some other as yet unidentified machine. N.p. unknown
Bookseller reference : 74118
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The Rausenberger Aeronautical Motor: Reliable Simple Strong.
Dayton OH: Dayton Areo Motors Company 1914. First edition. Oblong octavo 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches. 14 1 pp. With numerous illustrations of the motor and one full page illustration of a plane in flight. Publisher's stapled green wrappers with gilt and green lettering to the front cover. An excellent copy. None located on OCLC or at auction. This stylish brochure was issued to advertise Rausenberg's first v-12 aviation motor. Designed by L. E. Rausenberger and distributed by the Dayton Aero Motors Company this engine was created to fill "the demand for aeronautical motors of higher power and more perfect balance than those now in use for heavier than air flight" p. 3. It produced 150 HP and weighed a mere 590 pounds due to the use of aluminum. Rausenberger was already quite famous as an engine designer. In 1909 the Wright Company formed to produce airplanes. The Model B was their first production airplane and it was powered by a 75 horsepower Rausenberger engine. He designed a total of 6 engines during his career. His last engine was the Rausie E6 and it powered the first plane to cross the Andes. "Larence Rausenberger 1887-1980 was one of Logan CountyÕs most distinguished native sons. Born on his familyÕs farm in DeGraff the young Rausenberger became very interested in machines and how they worked. As a young man he restored a steam operated traction machine used to pull a thrasher through the fields. He also reconditioned a gasoline engine that he hooked up to the farmÕs well to pump the water so he would not have to pump it by hand. However it was as an adult that RausenbergerÕs superior knowledge of engines impacted the world. Rausenberger developed several airplane engines that made aviation still in its infancy safer and more efficient. He built many of his engines at his workshop in Bellefontaine. Some of Rausenberger's engines included the ÒA-1Ó the ÒB-SeriesÓ and the ÒS/N-2.Ó Rausenberger went all over the world to demonstrate promote and sell his innovative airplane engines" Logan County History Center. Dayton Areo Motors Company unknown
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Three Early Aviation Cards.
Paris: Le Bon Marche 1910. First editions. Three large promotional cards 9 7/8 x 7 1/8 inches printed on thick stock featuring early aviators. The front of each card bears a small photographic vignette of the pilot and a large photographic image of his plane all surrounded by fanciful aviation-themed borders printed in light green. The reverse of each card bears a short history of the pilot in question and a large picture of the Bon Marche Department Store in Paris. The pilots are Wilbur Wright Hubert Latham and Emile Dubonnet. The Dubonnet card with a 2 inch tear to lower margin not affecting image. The Latham card has a bit of finger soiling. The Wright card is in lovely condition.These cards were probably given to visitors to the Le Bon Marche Department Store in Paris the first department store in the world. Le Bon Marche unknown
Bookseller reference : 73066
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EARLY AVIATION: FATAL CRASH
Three Original Photographs of Harold Bruner and His Curtis Headless Pusher Prior to His Fatal Crash.
Erie PA: Adrian Studio 1919. Three large silver gelatin of early aviator Harold Bruner and his plane. Each measures 13 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches in studio mounts 15 1/2 x 12 inches. Two of the photographs depict Bruner in the air and the other shows him on the ground in his plane. His plane was a Curtiss Headless Pusher. One of the photographs with some surface soiling and a mounted newspaper article on top it it. Wear to mount edges. A fascinating piece of history. Aviation was still in its infancy when this tragedy occurred. Harold Bruner of Erie PA was an early enthusiast of flight. Born in 1897 he grew up in Pennsylvania and after high school attended the Williams School of Aviation in Fenton Michigan. He became Òone of the most expert flyers in the United States often performing feats in midair which none but the most daring pilot had ever attemptedÓ from affixed unattributed newspaper. He traveled the Eastern seaboard demonstrating the wonder of flight at various county fairs and meets. On September 11 1919 he was scheduled to appear at the Dunkirk NY county fair. He did perform at this fair but ÒSuddenly when the machine was about 50 feet from the ground it tipped over to one side and then plunged down like a shot striking on the race ground ÒIbid. It was judged that the reason the plane crashed was the snapping of the elevator wire. The engine fell on him and he died instantly. Affixed the the verso of one of the photographs is a remarkable article from the Erie Dispatch September 12 1919 about that accident claiming that BrunerÕs plane might have been sabotaged. The headline reads; ÒWas Young Aviator Foul Play Victim.Ó The article states that a month prior to the crash Bruner took Erie Dispatch reporter Merrill C. Borland for a flight at the Erie exposition grounds. Borland reported that at that time Bruner's engine overheated badly. Upon investigation he found that someone had purposely put some same hay and dirt in his radiator. The reporter then speculates that perhaps the cause of BrunerÕs death in Dunkirk was attributable to the same person speculating that the elevator wire had been tampered with. Another fascinating detail of the article and one which helps to date the photographs is the following: ÒBefore taking Borland in the air a short flight was made for the benefit of F J Adams a moving picture man.Ó In the photograph of Bruner sitting in his Curstiss Pusher we can see attached to his plane a large motion picture camera. There is a rather dapper looking man standing behind the plane and this is more than likely F. J. Adams. The photograph was taken by the Erie photographer Adrian which also helps in pinning this down. In all probability these photographs were made during the visit of F. J. Adams to the Erie exposition field in August of 1919 a month before his fiery death. Adrian Studio unknown
Bookseller reference : 73064
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EARLY AVIATION: TRADE CATALOG
Wire of Quality: Referring Particularly to that Used in Aerial Navigation.
Trenton NJ: John A. Roebling's Sons Company. First edition. Small octavo. 24 pp. with a plethora of photographic illustrations. Publisher's sewn blue printed wrappers with a window in the front cover to display a biplane aloft. Small marginal tear not afecting any text. A very good copy. None located by OCLC. The Roebling's history in Trenton dates to 1848 when John A. Roebling purchased 25 acres of land in Chambersburg Best known today as the "father of the Brooklyn Bridge" Roebling and the company he founded supplied cables from Trenton to most of the major suspension bridges built in United States during the first half of the 20th century. Among the dozens of major bridges using Trenton-made cable are New York City's Williamsburg Manhattan and George Washington Bridges as well as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.Roebling Lofts converted the "Clark Street Rope Shop" Building 101 erected in 1917 during WW I. It was an ultra-modern facility for its time with massive windows and a fire resistant design. It replaced an older factory that burned down in late 1915 allegedly by German saboteurs. Building 101 specialized in light- and medium-gauge wire rope such as used in aircraft. Perhaps the factory's most famous customer was Charles Lindbergh who specified Roebling wire for The Spirit of St. Louis the plane he flew non-stop from New York to Paris in 1927. This has been called the single most influential flight in aviation history excepting the 1903 first-flight by the Wright Brothers who also used Roebling cables for bracing wings. Lindbergh used Roebling products for control cables to brace the wings for the ignition harness and the plane's lightning rod. The testing lab for the aircraft business was located on the 4th floor of the Clark Street factory including a massive machine designed to simulate stresses on wings. The machine survives in place on the 4th floor and is being preserved in a lounge for use by residents of Roebling Lofts. John A. Roebling's Sons Company unknown
Bookseller reference : 74125
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EARLY AVIATION ARCHIVE
An Archive Concerning Lieutenant Frederic E. Humphreys The First Army Officer To Fly Solo. These Letters Mention The Thirtieth Anniversary Of His Historic Flight
Archive. 7 pieces. 1938 to 1939. A grouping of seven pieces concerning Frederic E. Humphreys the first Army officer to fly solo. These pieces arranged in chronological order mention the thirtieth anniversary of Humphrey’s first flight. 1 TLS. 1pp. 8†x 10â€. July 18 1938. War Department. A typed letter signed “J Totten†on “War Department†letterhead concerning “Special Recognition for Colonel F.E. Humphreysâ€: “…Reference is made to your letter of November 12 1937 recommending that some form of special recognition be awarded Colonel Frederic E. Humphreys New York National Guard for being the first officer of the United States Regular Army to fly a plane alone…it is proposed to make a suitable award to Colonel Humphreys. By order of the Secretary of War…â€. 2 TL. 1pp. 8†x 10â€. July 18 1938. War Department. A typed letter that is an unsigned copy of #1. 3 TDS. 1pp. 8†x 10â€. August 3 1938. No place. A typed letter signed “Ames T. Brown†indicating that he mailed a letter to Louis L. Pendleton concerning the 30th anniversary of the flight. 4 TD. 1pp. 8†x 10â€. August 4 1938. Camp Smith Peekskill. A typed document mentioning that it is to be addressed to “Colonel Louis L. Pendletonâ€. 5 ALS. 1pp. 8†x 10â€. August 23 ’38. New York City. An autograph letter signed “L.L. Pendleton Colonel†addressed to Lieutenant Humphreys: “Please not attached papers which please return to me at your convenience. ‘The Mills of the Gods grind slow’ – it would seem – but ‘better late than never’ also applies. I hope I will be around next summer to see what they really do then!†6 TLS. 1pp. 7†x 9â€. April 5 1939. Aberdeen Proving Ground. A typed letter signed “C.M.†on “Office of the Commanding Officer Aberdeen Proving Ground†stationery. He wrote to Humphreys: “It certainly was nice to get your pleasant letter of April 3rd…my memory is quite clear as to the time you and Lahm were trying out the first Wright airplane. I am glad you enjoyed the bulletin or class letter but I prepared it quite a while before it was issued and made some serious omissions…There is a good article in the ‘Sperryscope’ Vol 8 no 10 just out by Lahm which mentions the trying experience of your pamphlet. Call up the Sperryscope Co. and get a copy from Gillmor who is an old friend of mine.†Lahm received the first flying lesson but Humphreys made the first solo flight just before Lahm made his flight. 7 Card. 1pp. No date. Governor’s Island NY. A card imprinted “Colonel Earl McFarland†and written on in pencil “My best wishes and I hope to see you soon. Governor’s Island NYâ€. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 3234
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East Omega G.
Wright Brothers National Memorial North Carolina: National Park Service Historical Handbook Series No. 34
Washington DC: National Park Service 1963. Staplebound paperback reprint 64pp illus. HIstorical Handbook Series No. 34 black and white photos. NPS guide to Wright Memorial Kittyhawk North Carolina. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. National Park Service Paperback
Bookseller reference : 7340
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East Omega G
Wright Brothers National Memorial North Carolina
U S Department of the Interior. Near Fine. 1963. Reprint. Softcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 64 pages; 26701a . U S Department of the Interior paperback
Bookseller reference : 26701
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Eastern Airlines
Ionosphere: the Nearness of Distance 4 Parts in a Leather Portfolio
Eastern Airlines. Fine. 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. All parts present fine in the original leather portfolio. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Eastern Airlines hardcover
Bookseller reference : 20272
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Eastern Air Lines / Mid-Continent Airlines
Eastern Air Lines [Airlines] 1950 Passenger Ticket,
6.5" x 3.25" passenger ticket for a flight from Houston to Des Moines in October1950 for $61.18. Ticket consists of four pages, two of which are boiler plate text and one page containing the carbon copy of hand-written details of the traveller and her itinerary. Ticket is stored in a brightly-illustrated red, white and blue envelope featuring ads for Texaco and Mid-Continent Airlines. Light wear. A nice memento of early 1950's American passenger air travel. Book
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Eastwood A. B.
Europa 75: a Guide to Airlines Operating to and Within Europe
Luton UK: Laas International. Near Fine. 1975. First Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 48 pages . Laas International paperback
Bookseller reference : 20481
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Eastwood A Mitchell Richardson and Roach
Airlines 1999
West Drayton: The Aircraft Hobby Shop 1999. Pictorial Cover. Good/No Jacket as published. 6x8.25. 446pp wire spiral bound. Giving comprehensive fleet lists of airliners for most of the World's airlines. A soft cover with a picture of an Airtours plane on the front. Clean and unmarked throughout. A very useful reference book at an unbelievable bargain price. All orders processed and shipped promptly from the UK. <br/> <br/> The Aircraft Hobby Shop unknown
Bookseller reference : 000316 ISBN : 0907178642 9780907178644
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EasyJet
An easyJet Era - How a Decade Can Fly: easyJet Achievements and Stories 1995-2005
oblong format, 124 pages, illustrated, foreword by Stelios. eng
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Eather Charles
We Flew in Burma
Surfers Paradise QLD Australia: Chingchic Publishers 1993. 244 pages with b/w illustrations. A story of flying in Burma with Cathay Pacific Airways and Union of Burma Myanma Airways. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Chingchic Publishers Paperback
Bookseller reference : 017256 ISBN : 064611994x 9780646119946
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Eather Steve
Blue Lightning. The Story of 6 Squadron AFC & RAAF 1917-2005
Sydney: Australian Military History Publications. 2007. Small Quarto Size approx 17.5cm x 24cm. Fine condition in pictorial laminated boards. No DJ as issued. A new copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. 190 pages Includes World War Two Roll of Honour and World War Two Awards. . New. 1st Edition. Hardback. Australian Military History Publications hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIB219379 ISBN : 1876439777 9781876439774
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EB. MORGAN and E. SHACKLADY. E. B.
Spitfire: The History. The History. Fifth Impression Revised.
Key Books Stamford 2000. 4to. Best Edition with many hundreds of photographs and detailed drawings in the text and fine coloured pictorial endpapers illustrating 140 variants of the aircraft; cloth gilt back a very good clean copy in the dustwrapper. Morgan and Shacklady's definitive history of the most famous fighter in aviation history was first published in 1987 after some twenty years' research. It constitutes a massive bank of information including rare photographs detailed technical drawings and operational data on more than 22500 individual aircraft. This is the revised edition incorporating much of the additional material that has subsequently become available. Key Books, Stamford, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 19897
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EBERSPÄCHER J. - EBERSPÄCHER Adolf
Schwäbische Kunde. 75 Jahre J. Eberspächer. Chronik eines schwäbischen Unternehmens 1865 - 1940.
Esslingen. (1940). 120 Seiten. Mit zahlr. teils farbigen Zeichnungen, Fotos u. mont. Abbildungen sowie einer Original-Radierung von Esslingen. Druck auf Kunstdruck- u. Werkbüttenpapier. OHlwd.-Einband. (Einband etwas fleckig) 24x20 cm
Bookseller reference : 5815
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EBERSPÄCHER J. - EBERSPÄCHER Adolf
Schwäbische Kunde. 75 Jahre J. Eberspächer. Chronik eines schwäbischen Unternehmens 1865 - 1940.
Esslingen. (1940). 120 Seiten u. eine Beilage. Mit zahlr. teils farbigen Zeichnungen, Fotos u. mont. Abbildungen sowie einer Original-Radierung von Esslingen. Druck auf Kunstdruck- u. Werkbüttenpapier. OHlwd.-Einband. (Einband etwas fleckig. Titelblatt gestempelt) 24x20 cm
Bookseller reference : 143296
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EBERT, Hans J.
Willy Messershcmitt. Pionier der Luftfahrt und des Leichtbaues. Eine Biographie. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, text in German, with numerous photographs, illustrations and diagrams in the text, and endpaper diagrams; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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Eclipse Aviation Corporation
ECLIPSE INJECTION STARTER FOR AVIATION ENGINES UP TO 250 HORSEPOWER INSTRUCTION BOOK NO. 19
Eclipse Aviation Corporation 1933. Paperback. Good/No Dust Jacket. Softcover. Grey paper covers are lightly creased and show soil and edgewear. Upper corner chipped. Black spine is 3 hole punched. Previous owners stamp on front cover and title page. Text pages are clean upper corners bumped. Fold out parts chart in rear. Eclipse Aviation Corporation paperback
Bookseller reference : INVENT034514I
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ECOLE DES MECANICIENS DE L'ARMEE DE L'AIR
"AVION MARCEL DASSAULT 315 "" FLAMANT I"" - SPECIALITES 51-110"
"ARMEE DE L'AIR. 1957. In-4. Broché. Bon état, Couv. partiel. décollorée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Environ 82 pages - - Nombreuses illustrations, figures et schémas en noir et blanc dans et/ou texte - "" FLAMANT I"" - SPECIALITES 51-110. . . . Classification Dewey : 629.1-Aviation"
Bookseller reference : RO80198401
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