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196732 pages. Features: Saab J 35F Draken - Swedish Fighter; No. 6 (R.C.A.F.) Bomber Group - article with great photos; Comper Swift; Javelin Swan Song; Woodbridge - the story of a notable bomber emergency runway - article with photos; Sultan of Oman's A.F.; Register Review; and more. Average wear. Cup ring and bit of writing on front cover. A sound copy. Book
1975Features. Handling a Harrier; Air Wisconsin; Aboard U.S.S. 'America'; D.H.88 Comet G-ADEF; Bellanca Aircraft - 1; Grumman AA-5 Traveler; Money-saving trainer; Markham - R.A.F. Tanker Base; De Havilland D.H.86; Lockheed S-3A Viking; Bellanca Aircraft - part 2; Shin Meiwa SS-2A; Nationalisation; McAlpine Aviation; Supermarine Walrus K8541; Saro Lerwick; No. 208 Squadron History; The Hadj - Saudi Arabia; Zlin 42; Sabena in the 1970s; Luxembourg Airlines; Farman Transports; R.A.F. Northolt; Fighters from Central Europe; Bristol Badminton; Britain's Defence Cuts; Defense Austerity; 'Flying Can-Openers'; France's Aircraft Industry; General Dynamics F-16; Air Anglia; U.S. Pusher Fighters of World War II; Operation 'Firedog' - part 1; Westland Wessex G-ABVB; D.H. Canada Dash 7; Herbert Smith; The Hiller Phoenix; Histoyr of the No. 111 Squadron; Catalina Recollections; Prospects for the F.A.A.; Crewman on a Puma; Operation 'Firedog' - part 2; Croydon Remembered; Restored V.L. Viima II; European NATO requirements for shipborne aircraft; Paris Pictures; Fairchild A-10; Martinair's Many Faces; Operation 'Firedog' - part 3; Handley Page Harrow K6940; Strike's Interceptor Phantoms; Seen at Sywell; Dambusting Navigator; British Airlines 1975; Aircraft Design Draughtsman; Battle of Britain Day; Cessna Model 172; Portuguese Army Aircraft; Last Meteor Exports; Colerne Collection; Liverpool Blitz -1; Braathens S.A.F.E.; Harrier Carrier; VFW - Fokker 614; Boeing - cautious optimism; U.S.S. 'Nimitz' visits the U.K.; R.A.F. Finningley; R.A.F. Training in France; Liverpool Blitz - 2; Sikorsky S-39A G-ABFN; South African Air Force; Handley Page Herald; Hatfield memories; Fokker Trimotor; Sounders ST-27 and ST-28; Maritime AEOp; Vickers Vildebeest K4175. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
199564 pages. Features: Photo essay on the Grumman F9F Panther; Do You Believe These Guys? - A Story from the Gulf War; The Great Cubi Shootout; When the Naval Air Defense Force was on the ropes; In Memoriam - Capt. Harry Jenkins - Dies Doing What He Dearly Loved; The Leader of the Blues; USS Franklin 50 Years Later; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
199564 pages. Features: Fighting the War with Sidearms; Doggus Delecti; Where Are They Now? - Jack Ensch; The LSO Today - Roger, Ball; The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver - photo essay; At Marshal - Summer of '45; Haw Heroes Pull Pilot From Inferno; The FV-124 Revisited; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
199664 pages. Features: Character and the Naval Officer; A Congressman (John Kasich) Looks at Naval Aviation; The F8F Bearcat; The Whoostling of Jim Willy; Clothes Make the Man; The Lessons of History - downsizing, post-war style; Shangri-La after the war; The History of VAW-122 - sunset for the Steeljaws; Faces of Fallon; A Sense of Yuma; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
199664 pages. Features: Dick Best; Further Adventures of Youthly Puresome - The Rocket's Red Glare; "Yankee Air Pirates Attack Airliner!"; 1,000 Trap Aircrew; Blaze of Glory - Charlie Ware and the Battle of Midway; MCAS Yuma; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
199564 pages. Features: The Trials of Captain Zoderly; Robert C. Osborn (1904-1994); Where Are They Now? - Saburo Sakai; Japanese Carrier Operations - How Did They Do It?; 1,000 Trap Aircrew; Tales from a Rear Gunner - Embarrassment at Okinawa - Joe A. Ricciardi; Mountbatten's visit to the Pacific Fleet; CVW-15's Last Cruise - photo essay; Farewell patches of disestablished units; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
199564 pages. Features: Strangers in a Strange Land; From Richard to Sara With Love; U.S. Marines and Their F/A-18s - air, on land and sea; Hot Hawks over Bosnia; Action Over Bosnia - Prowlers at the Tip of the Spear; A Short Sea Story - Underwater Ejection; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
19798vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and maps; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19778vo. with illustrated title-spread numerous photographs throughout and endpaper maps; black cloth gilt back a very good bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A good general account and profusely illustrated. Enser p.160; Law 0802.
19578vo., blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Considerably revised version of the original edition of 1955.
19728vo., with plates and illustrated endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1950pp. xxiv, 376 + Plus numerous photographs. Top edge red. Uncut. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, spine faded. Seversky was a Russian born in 1894 and was a air hero in World War I. A protege of General Billy Mitchell in the War Department in the 1920s, he went on to found the Seversky Aircraft Corporation later Republic Aviation. He designed the P47 Thunderbolt, the world's then fastest amphibian plane. WWII 2
198182 pages. Features: Floatplanes of British Columbia; Flying coast-to-coast with commuters; Strange story of the Concordski - Russia's supersonic airliner appears to have been pulled from regular service; America's Aerobatic Victory; Stearman Interlude - a crop-spraying Stearman biplane; Flying the P-51D - A WWII Time Machine; What it takes to be a navy flight surgeon; Victory for America at the world aerobatic championships; Winnipeg fun-flying club. Average wear. Book
1979100 pages. Features: Flying the Winged Missile - the Starfighter; The B-25 Mitchell medium bomber; Burt Rutan's Quickie; BD-5 - Another View; Christen's Elegant Eagle; Confessions of a PBM Pilot; Dog Sabre - North America's all-weather version of their famous Sabre jet was a real handful for its pilot; Gordon Plaskett's TF-51D; Mustang Versus Bearcat - can a P-51 outfight an F8F?; The Beech Staggerwing; The McDonnell-Douglas DC-10; Flying the Twin MustangThe XR-12; The Northrop F5-E; The CG-4 combat glider. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
198082 pages. Features: Astec's Fuel Efficient Eagle Jet; Oshkosh 1980; Flying Rutan's Long EZ; General Aviation vs. The Airlines; Cessna's Turbo Stationair 6. Above-average wear. Book
2001Best.-Nr. 4321402Ashgate 2001. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item700grams ISBN:0754613259 Ashgate hardcover
19868vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A comprehensive and detailed account with a wealth of valuable photographs. Enser, p.29.
1981Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and diagrams throughout; ivory cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1945Best.-Nr. 183077Cairo West: H.Q. 216 Group 1945. A detailed handbook for RAF transport pilots A confidential navigational aid correct to July 1945 including folding maps of radio and responder beacons on and around the Arabian Peninsula and emergency airfields in the Gulf Iraq and Persia. Individual plans give the layout of Cairo West and other airfields in Palestine Iraq Bahrein and Sharjah. In Arabia RAF pilots were served by emergency airfields at Abu Dhabi Muscat and Shinas and by beacons in Bahrein Sharjah and Ras al Hadd. The text details instrument approach procedures obstructions lighting and services at key locations gives procedures to be followed after forced landings "in the blue" and lists distress signals. Formed in May 1942 within Middle East Command No. 216 Ferry Group later No. 216 Air Transport and Ferry Group handled all transport requirements for the Middle East theatre and was commanded for most of the war by Air Commodore Whitney Willard Straight 1912-1979. Quarto. With 17 leaves 4 folding of colour and black-and-white maps 15 sides of letterpress and duplicated typescript notices and instructions loosely inserted folding sheet with graphs of daylight and darkness on both sides. Original buff card covers fixed with butterfly pins through punch holes front cover lettered in black with manuscript additions. Covers worn from use pins rusting but holding firm short closed tear at head of Jiwani map sheet light creasing internally: very good. unknown
1945Best.-Nr. 183037Cairo West: H.Q. 216 Group 1945. A detailed guide for RAF transport pilots A confidential navigational aid amended to August 1945 including a map of aviation routes along the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula and down the Gulf as well as maps and plans of emergency airfields in southern Arabia primarily natural surface landing strips and airfields at Aden Riyan Salalah and Masira. The text details instrument approach procedures obstructions lighting and services for key airfields gives procedures to be followed after forced landings "in the blue" and lists distress signals. Formed in May 1942 within Middle East Command No. 216 Ferry Group later No. 216 Air Transport and Ferry Group handled all transport requirements for the Middle East theatre and was commanded for most of the war by Air Commodore Whitney Willard Straight 1912-1979. Quarto. With 14 leaves 3 folding of colour and black-and-white maps 12 sides of letterpress and duplicated typescript notices and instructions typescript notice wire-stitched on inside front cover. Contemporary manuscript alterations in contents. Original buff card covers fixed with butterfly pins through punch holes front cover lettered in black with manuscript additions. Covers creased and pins rusting as expected binding still holding firm chip at head of front cover occasional soiling: very good. unknown
1929Best.-Nr. 62686Montreal Canada: Canadian Pacific Express 1929. Oblong 8vo. 4 pp unpaginated. text & borders printed in blue sepia & black. Self-printed softcovers vivid Art Deco cover art front cover of Canadian Pacific Express making delivery to airport by Charles James Greenwood 1893-1965 a NF copy. First edition thus of this wonderful menu issued at the end of the Roaring 20’s touting the lavish breakfasts available on Canadian Pacific streamliner service sleeping cars dining cars station restaurants and planes in 1929. Greenwood was a graphic designer who began creating posters for the Canadian Pacific in the 1920’s and was noted for his posters promoting cruises to Alaska. No copies in Worldcat. Canadian Pacific Express, paperback
1919Best.-Nr. 12189Washington: G.P.O. 1919. 1st edition. 4to. 446pp. original cloth with illustrations. Front hinge loose signature on pastedown endpaper otherwise good. G.P.O. unknown
1916Best.-Nr. A10194Mineola NY: Headquarters First Reserve Wing 1916. Good/No Jacket. A very interesting and rare copy of lectures on duties of pilots and observers. Marked confidential. Name stamped on outside and insde very faint. some yellowing and the spine binding is a little ragged. Overall a nice rare copy. PROMPT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE! Headquarters First Reserve Wing unknown
1919Best.-Nr. 12189Washington: G.P.O. 1919. 1st edition. 4to. 446pp. original cloth with illustrations. Front hinge loose signature on pastedown endpaper otherwise good. G.P.O. unknown books
