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[SAINT-EXUPERY] - ANET (Daniel)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Poète - Romancier - Moraliste.
In-8, 248p. Préface du Général Davet.
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CHOMBARD (P. A.)
Les équipements de planeurs et d'avions.
In-8, 186p. Préface de M. Hymans. Avec 74 figures dans le texte. Couverture piquée, sinon à l'état de neuf.
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ROMEYER (Jean)
L'aviation civile française.
In-8, 202p. Avec de nombreuses illustrations dans le texte.
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BOWMAN (Gerald)
La guerre dans les airs.
In-8, 314p. Avec quelques illustrations hors texte. Axemplaire à l'état de neuf.
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FOURNIER (Christiane)
Pilotes d'essai.
In-8, 230p. A l'état de neuf, non coupé.
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BOUDIER (Paul) & JULLIAN (Marcel)
Ils ont reconquis notre ciel.
In-8, 186p. Illustré de photographies hors texte. Exemplaire à l'état de neuf, non coupé.
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PAQUIER (Pierre)
Aviation, école du bonheur.
In-8, 243p. Avec quelques illustrations hors texte. Tranches piquées, sinon très bel exemplaire.
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MITTELHOLZER (W.)
Les Ailes et les Alpes.
Gr. In-8, 108p. Illustré de 191 planches photographiques en noir et blanc hors-texte. Rousseurs sur tranches comme souvent. La jaquette manque. Sinon très bel exemplaire.
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MITTELHOLZER (Walter) / FLUCKIGER (Otto)
La Suisse à vol d'oiseau.
In-4, XXXXIII-176p. Traduction française par René Meylan. Avec 274 photographies en noir et blanc tirées sur papier couché. Très bel exemplaire.
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MORGAN (Stuart)
Villes et bourgades neuchateloises. Vues aériennes.
Gr. In-8 à l'italienne, 116p. Notices historiques par Jean-Pierre Jelmini. Photographies aériennes en couleurs de l'auteur. Epuisé.
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LITHGOW (Mike)
Mach 1.
In-8, 302p. Avant-propos du colonel Ladousse (on ne rit pas!). Avec quelques illustrations hors texte. Menus accrocs à la jaquette, sinon bel exemplaire.
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DANRIT (capitaine) [DRIANT (Lt-Colonel)]
L'aviateur du Pacifique.
In-4, 512p. Un des nombreux retirage. Avec de nombreuses illustrations en noir de G. Dutriac. Marque d'appartenance au dos du frontispice, sinon bel exemplaire.
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FONCK (René)
Mes combats.
In-8, 252p. Exemplaire du vingt-et-unième mille. Avec un portrait de l'As des as en frontispice. Accompagné d'une carte manuscrite dans laquelle un membre de la famille Fonck qui s'excuse que la page 25-26 soit faussement relié en début d'ouvrage. Bel exemplaire, agréablement relié. Rare.
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MITTELHOLZER (Walter) / GOUZY (René) / HEIM (Arnold)
R-A-S-T. En hydravion de Zurich au Cap de Bonne-Espérance.
Gr. In-8, 182p. Premier ouvrage édité par La Baconnière. Orné de 108 illustrations et de 5 cartes dont une en couleurs. Accrocs à la fragile couverture.
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CENDRARS (Blaise)
Saint Joseph de Cupertino.
In-8, 240p. Edition hors commerce tirée à 2000 exemplaires numérotés. Le texte est la seconde partie de l'ouvrage "Le Lotissement du Ciel", intitulée Le nouveau patron de l'aviation. Maquette d'Odette Ducarre. Bords de la reliure ayant viré au mauve, comme presque toujours, autrement bel exemplaire.
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JEANNERET (René) & ZEHR (Georges-André)
Au temps des aéroplanes (1909-1939).
Pt. In-8, 160p. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et en couleurs dans le texte. En excellente condition.
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CLOSTERMANN (Pierre)
Le grand cirque. Souvenirs d'un pilote de chasse français de la R.A.F.
In-8, 308p. Illustré de quelques photographies hors texte.
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KALLIR Otto
[Sale Catalogue of] The Otto Kallir Collection of Aviation History. 14 June 1993. FINE COPY
4to., with a frontispiece, 15 coloured plates and very numerous monochrome facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The sale of this notable collection comprises 211 lots. It is particularly strong in the early years of flight, especially French ballooning and early US powered flight. Numerous items relating to the Wrights, Byrd, Lindbergh, Earhart, Amundsen, Peary, Saint-Exupery and many others.
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BOWYER Charles
Path Finders at War. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. folio, First Edition, with illustrated title and very numerous photographs (many full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly sunned (but all gilt entirely legible) else a very good, clean copy. The RAF's path finders and target-markers over Germany during WWII. Enser, p.172.
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BARKER Ralph
A Brief History of the Royal Flying Corps in World War I. [First Paperback Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Paperback Edition, with very numerous plates; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Barker's acclaimed study was first published as 'The Royal Flying Corps in France' (2 vols, 1995). This is the work's first appearance in paperback.
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ASHWORTH Christopher
Action Stations 5. Military Airfields of the South-West. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title, very numerous illustrations and maps in the text and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy.
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BROOKS Robin J.
Sussex Airfields in the Second World War.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Includes indexes by airfield and squadron, and select bibliography.]
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BRICKHILL Paul
The Dam Busters. With a Foreword by Marshal of the Royal Air Force The Lord Tedder. IN FULL MOROCCO WITH THEME TOOLING
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 17 plates on 12; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and third compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with propeller motif, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The moving story of RAF Bomber Command's most famous squadron and Operation CHASTISE, arguably the most famous air exploit of WWII. This book formed the basis of Michael Anderson's classic feature film (1954) of the same name starring Michael Redgrave, Richard Todd and Nigel Stock. The stirring 'Dam Busters March', written by Eric Coates as the theme to the movie, was almost immediately adopted as an official march of the Royal Air Force. Enser, p.64; Mulholland & Jordan B121
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COLLYER David G.
Battle of Britain Diary . [An Account of the Events in East Kent]. July-September 1940]. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece map, and numerous photographs and maps (a number full-page) in the text, small personal book-label on front inside wrapper; original pictorial wrappers, covers very lightly creased else a very good, clean copy.
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CREASEY John
Heroes of the Air. A Tribute to the Courage, Sacrifice and Skill of the Men of the RAF. [Foreword by the Earl of Shaftesbury]. SCARCE WARTIME JOHN CREASEY
8vo., First and Sole Edition, with numerous photographs in the text, small signature on front wrapper; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly age-soiled and with one short teat at margin of front wrapper else a very good, clean copy. In 1942 the National Savings Committees for Dorset united in a drive to replace by war savings the cruiser 'Dorsetshire'; £3,000,000 was raised in just over six months. Subsequently the Dorset Wings for Victory campaign set out to achieve a similar success for the RAF. Creasey was nominated co-Hon. Publicity Secretary (from his address at 'Cattistock', Fernlea Avenue, Ferndown, Wimborne, Dorset) together with T.F.E. Jakeman of Weymouth. The pamphlet is sub-titled 'Vivid true Stories of epic Flights by the RAF'. A fragile item and a rare survival.
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GARBETT, Mike
The Lancaster at War 1-5. [Complete set]. CLEAN WORKING SET
5 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition [save one volume], with very numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text and photographic or pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt backs, backstrip of first volume missing (but binding entirely sound), small scar on title of fifth volume else a very good, clean working set. Splendid pictorial record spanning nearly a quarter of a century of publishing. The set comprises: The Lancaster at War (first edition, 1971); Lancaster at War 2 (1979; third impression, 1981); Lancaster at War 3 (first edition, 1984); Lancaster at War 4: Pathfinder Squadron (first edition, 1990); Lancaster at War 5: Fifty Years On (first edition, 1995). UNCOMMON AS A SET. Enser, p.31 (recording the first volume).
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GOULDING Brian
[Aircraft] Profile 65. The Avro Lancaster I. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN WRAPPERS
4to., with 4pp of colour plates (including many liveries) and numerous monochrome photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly dust-soiled else a good, clean copy. As always with this series, a detailed statistical account with many useful photographs.
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GRIERSON John
Jet Flight. Foreword by Lord Beaverbrook. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, very numerous full-page photographs in the text and pictorial endpapers, title very lightly age-marked; handsomely bound in full dark blue crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. A scarce and important text in the history of British (and in many respects international) aviation. Test pilot Grierson traces the initial development and operation of the jet engine from Whittle (pictured as a flight cadet in the frontispiece) and the Gloster E.28 aircraft to the Meteor and Vampire, as well as progress in the USA.
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HALPENNY B.B.
Action Stations 2. Military Airfields of Lincolnshire and the East Midlands. [Fourth Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Fourth Impression, with illustrated title, very numerous illustrations and maps in the text and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. First published in 1981.
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HAUPT-HEYDEMARCK [G.]
Double-Decker C.666. Translated by Claud W. Sykes. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
8vo., First English Edition, with a frontispiece, 27 plates and a folding map, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, some mild spotting (mainly marginal but rather heavier on title) throughout; cloth, gilt back, a very good, tight copy. With 3pp publisher's advertisements at end. Very scarce.Classic account of German pilot's flying experiences in WWI.Scarce.
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HUMPHREYS Roy S.
Hawkinge 1912-1961. An in depth history of the former Royal Air Force Station Hawkinge. [Second Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Impression, with numerous photographs and maps in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. First published in 1981.
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KERSHAW, ed. Andrew
The First War Planes [Purnell's History of the World Wars. Special.]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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LEARMONTH Bob
The First Croydon Airport 1915-1928. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text, small neat personal stamp on title; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
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LEE A.S.G.
Special Duties. Reminiscences of a Royal Air Force Staff Officer in the Balkans, Turkey and the Middle East. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 48 plates on 30, 4 maps (one double-page, 3 full-page) in the text and endpaper maps; navy blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, clean copy. Air Vice-Marshal Lee's account is uncommon. Enser, p.377.
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MOORE John
The Fleet Air Arm. A Short Account of its History and Achievements.
8vo., First Edition, with 10 plates on 8 and 3 maps in the text, some very light spotting (mainly marginal); cloth, a very good, clean copy. With the publisher's errata slip correcting the caption to plate III. Law 0783.
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PERKINS Paul
Mustang. North American P-51. Text by Paul Perkins. Photographs by Dan Patterson.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured photographs throughout; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers very lightly creased else a very good, bright, clean copy. First monograph in Airlife's 'WWII Living History' series. Uncommon, especially in this condition.
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DANIELS (ed.) G.
A Guide to the Reports of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey. Guide to the Reports of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey.
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 12.
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DEAL] [L.E.
The Manston Spitfire. TB752. [Second Revised Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; original pictorial wrappers, lower wrapper lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. First published in 1981
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PLAISTED A.H.
The Manor and Parish records of Medmenham, Buckinghamshire.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece and captioned guard, 21 plates (a number in photogravure) all with captioned guards, 5 maps and plans, 7 illustrations and 8 full-page pedigrees in the text, and endpaper maps, neat signature on front free endpaper; original cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, gilt top, covers moderately age-faded (but all gilt entirely legible) else a very good, bright, clean copy. One of the scarcest and most detailed Buckinghamshire parish histories
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DYMOND F.E.
A Very Special Lancaster. A History of Lancaster Mk I R5868.
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, illustrations and maps throughout; orihinal photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Now preserved at Hendon, R5868 served with 83 and 467 Squadrons throughout WWII.
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HOSEK Timothy
Grumman JF Duck. Mini in Action. Color by Don Greer. Illustrated by Joe Sewell. Mini Number 7. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and 2pp of colour plates; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Mini Number 7.
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HAMLIN John F.
Flat Out. The Story of 30 Squadron Royal Air Force. [Foreword by Air Chief Marshal Sir John Cheshire]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; original laminated pictorial boards, a near fine copy. This outstanding history covers over eight decades of continuous service by one of the RAF's most famous squadrons. With numerous detailed appendices relating to actions, aircraft and personnel. SCARCE.
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HUMPHREYS (ed.) R.S.
Wings over Kent. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Collects fifteen illustrated papers.
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HILLARY Richard
The Last Enemy. [Fifth Impression.] IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., Fifth Impression; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with 'propeller' motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Published four months after the first edition. Arguably the finest account of the Battle of Britain by a British fighter pilot. Hillary flew Spitfires out of Hornchurch with 603 Squadron and claimed five victories before being badly burned over the North Sea. An early member of the Guinea Pig Club, he was treated by McIndoe and returned to duty, but was killed shortly after in a training accident. The work was many times reprinted, but early issues are scarce. The US title is 'Falling Through Space'. Enser, p.157
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KNIGHT, Laura
War Pictures by British Artists. Women [with] Production [with] Soldiers [with] Air Raids. [Series II complete]. COMPLETE SECOND SERIES IN FULL MOROCCO
4 works in 1 vol., 8vo., First Edition, with 194 toned full-page illustrations in the text; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, ALL ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a most attractive volume ideal as a gift or for presentation. No.1: Women; No. 2: Production; No. 3: Soldiers; No. 4: Air Raids. Complete set of the second series with fine reproductions of paintings, drawings and sketches by virtually all Britain's leading war artists. The contributors naturally featured many of the most eminent artists of the period including (among many others) Ardizzone, Bawden, Bone, Kennington, Moore, Nash, Piper, Ravilious, Rothenstein, Spencer, Sutherland, Topolski and Worsley. The first series (dealing primarily with the fighting forces) was published in the preceding year. UNCOMMON AS A SET AND ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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LONDON GAZETTE
Fleet Air Arm Operations against Taranto on 11th November 1940. Supplement to the London Gazette. No. 38023, 24 July 1947. NEAR FINE COPY
Folio, 8pp (one blank) with a large folding plan; wire-stitched as issued, one or two small rust marks as often else a near fine copy. 'Supplements to the London Gazette' are of great value to the naval and military historian. In many cases they represent the first publicly published accounts of the engagements concerned, and normally contain excellent maps and plans together with direct transcripts from official despatches not easily available elsewhere.This supplement includes the following transcripts: Cunningham (CinC Mediterranean): despatch to Admiralty 16 January 1941; Boyd (Captain of HMS Illustrious): despatch to Admiralty 13 November 1940; Lyster ( Rear-Admiral Commanding Mediterranean Aircraft Carriers): covering note 26 November 1940; fine folding plan of the harbour and environs with attack details noted.
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WATSON Peter
Tiger Moths to Typhoons. The Story of a World War Two Fighter Pilot. Edited bu Sue and Andy Parlour. SIGNED BY THE EDITORS
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 9 plates on 4; original photographic wrappers, a fine copy. SIGNED BY THE EDITORS ON TITLE. Includes an appendix on Typhoon variants.
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LEAROYD, VC Roderick Alastair Brook
A.L.s from Roderick Learoyd VC. A.L.s from RODERICK LEAROYD VC
Single sheet, measuring 8.25 x 6.0 ins (approx. 21.0 x 15.0 cms), on printed stationery from Learoyd's home in Rustington, and dated 7 September 1995; near fine state. THE LETTER IS WRITTEN, DATED AND SIGNED ENTIRELY IN LEAROYD'S HAND, AND IS SOLD WITH A POOR QUALITY PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT. Roderick Alastair Brook Learoyd was gazetted for the Victoria Cross on 20 August 1940. The citation reads: 'On 12 August 1940 Flight Lieutenant Learoyd was one of the pilots briefed to bomb the Dortmund-Ems Canal in Germany. Of the four other aircraft which had already made the attack on that night, two were destroyed and two were badly hit. Flight Lieutenant Learoyd took his plane into the target at only 150 feet, in the full glare of the searchlights and flak barrage all around him. The aircraft was very badly damaged but the bombs were duly dropped and he managed to get his crippled plane back to England where he flew round until first light, finally landing without causing injury to his crew or further damage to his aircraft'. Flight Lieutenant (later Wing Commander) Roderick Alastair Brook Learoyd (1913-1996) was serving with 49 Squadron, Bomber Command.
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TUCK Robert Roland Stanford
Pilot's Flying Log. [Facsimile Edition]. 2500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition thus, text in red, blue and black; brown cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 2500 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 152) WITH PRINTED CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY AND LIMITATION MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Robert [Roland] Stanford Tuck needs no introduction here; as one of the of the leading fighter aces of the Battle of Britain he achieved 29 confirmed victories. This high quality facsimile covers the period October 1935 (initial training in Avro Tutors) to 1954 (as Chief Test Pilot on the EEC Canberra).
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STURTIVANT Ray
Royal Air Force Flying Training and Support Units. FINE COPY
Sm. folio, First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; original laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy. The standard reference, giving exhaustive detail on all units, extensive glossary of terms and index of place-names. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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