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His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine
by S.C. Gwynne
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- Used - Fine
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- fine
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- First edition
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- 2023
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- Has
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- 9781982168278
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$16.95
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New York: Scribners, 2023. First edition. has. Fine/fine. Fine apparently unread copy in fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Illustrated endpapers. 299 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs. The fate of the British airship R101---which went down in a spectacular hydrogen-fueled fireball in 1930, killing more people than the Hindenburg disaster seven years later---had largely… Read more about this item Item Price
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Practical Flight Training
by Lieutenant Barrett Studley
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- Used - Very Good
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- Second printing
- Published
- 1929
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- Hardcover
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$50.00
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New York: Macmillan, 1929. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover in dark gree cloth stamped in gilt. xv+ 435 pp. with index. Illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and diagrams. Very good; no jacket. Early and comprehensive manual of practical flying for the guidance of students commencing heavier-than-air flight training. The author was an instructor at the Flight School… Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00
Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic
by Joe Jackson
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- Used - Fine
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- fine
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- First edition
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- 2012
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780374106751
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$12.95
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Hardcover. 525 pp (including glossary, bibliography, index). A history of the race to cross the Atlantic Ocean, and bag a $25,000 prize offered by Raymond Orteig in 1927. The author describes the lives and personalities of the competitors, from Charles… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Boys' Book Of Aeroplanes
by T. O'B. Hubbard; C.C. Turner
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- Used - Very Good
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- First American edition
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- 1913
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- Hardcover
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$80.00
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New York: Stokes, 1913. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition, printed from the Scottish sheets. Octavo hardcover in pale green cloth strikingly decorated with an early aeroplane flying in the clouds over farmland. 227 pp. with index. Profusely illustrated with photographic plates of early flying machines from the earliest of the 19th and early 20th… Read more about this item Item Price
$80.00
Looking Back...1941-1991. 50th Anniversary of the First Flight of the Thunderbolt P-47 Thunderbolt Pilots Association
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- Used - Fine
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- 1991
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- Spiral_bound
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$17.50
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Thunderbolt Pilots Association, 1991. Spiral_bound. Fine. Oversized in illustrated softcovers. Fine. 112 p. with index of members. Illustrated with photoghaphs and with a 4-page section of color reproductions. The P-47 Thunderbolt was a fighter aircraft produced by Republic Aviation from 1941-1945.This publication contains articles, reminiscences, recounting of previous reunions, etc. Item Price
$17.50
Undaunted: Long-Distance Flyers in the Golden Age of Aviation
by Spencer Dunmoore
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- Used - Fine
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- fine
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- First edition
- Published
- 2004
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780771029370
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- 1
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Toronto, Canada: M&S, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Hardcover. 327 pp (with bibliography and index). Historical stories about aviators during the glamorous Golden Age of Flight, when pilots were exalted to celebrity status and fascinated the public. The author discusses Lindbergh, Hughes, and Earhart, as well as forgotten pioneer aviators. … Read more about this item Item Price
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Hidden Warbirds; The Epic Stories of Finding, Recovering, and Rebuilding WWI's Lost Aircraft
by Nicholas A. Veronic0
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- Used - Fine
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- fine
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- Second printing
- Published
- 2013
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- Hardcover
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- 9780760344095
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$19.50
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Zenith Press, 2013. Second printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 256 pp. with index, bibliography. Illustrated with vinage black and white and contemporary color photographs. Second Printing. During World War II, both Allied and Axis aircraft were shot, down, crash landed, or sometimes just abandoned. They were left to rust away in strange and surpeising… Read more about this item Item Price
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Dusty Ayres and his Battle Birds: The Telsa Raiders (Dusty Ayres Book No. 4)
by Robert Sidney Bowen
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- Used - Fine
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- First edition thus
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- 1966
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- Softcover
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$16.50
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San Diego: Corinth Publications, 1966. First edition thus. Softcover. Fine. Color illustrated softcovers. First separate edition of this adventure tale that first appeared serialized in a pulp magazine in 1935. Fine except for a small date written top corner of the first page. In this entry, air ace Dusty Ayres continues his battle against the bloody Black invaders… Read more about this item Item Price
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Dasty Ayres and his Battle Birds: Black Lightning (Dusty Ayres No. 1)
by Robert Sidney Bowen
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First edition thus
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- 1966
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- Sheet_music
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San Diego: Corinth Books, 1966. First edition thus. Sheet_music. Fine. Color illustrated softcovers. A tight, fine copy except for a small date written top corner of the first page. First edition of the first separate printing of this adventure story that first appeared serialized in a 1934 pulp. American air ace Dusty Ayres and his High Speed Group… Read more about this item Item Price
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Human Problems of Supersonic and Hypersonic Flight: Proceedings of the Fifth European Congress of Aviation Medicine, Lonson 29 August-2 September, 1960
by A Buchanan Barbour and Sir Harold E. Whittingham (eds.)
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- Used - Ex-Library
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- 1962
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- Hardcover
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$25.00
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New York, Oxford, London, paris: Pergamon Press, 1962. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Hardcover in black cloth lettered in gilt. Deaccessioned from a seminary library with thier markings on spine and endpapers. Interior tight and clean. 592 pp. with author index and subject index. Charts and tables. Collection of the papers presented at the 5th European Congress of Aviation, held in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Planes Without Pilots: Advances in Unmanned Flight
by William D. Siuru
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First edition
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- 1991
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- Paperback
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- 9780830634323
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$10.00
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Aero Publishers, 1991. First edition. Paperback. Fine. First edition. Paperback. Fine condition. 81 pgs. With diagrams and color and black and white photos.
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$10.00
Jet: 82 Challenging New Adventures
by Dave Prochnow
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- Used - Fine
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- First edition
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- 1987
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780830601721
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TAB Books, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Hardcover, issued without dust jacket. Fine condition. 192 pgs. Black and white photos, digrams. Index. Fascinating collection of 82 jet aircraft scenarios and events played out in training simulator games" by various manufacturers.
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Barons of the Sky
by Wayne Biddle
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- Used - Fine
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- fine
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- First edition
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- 1991
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780671667269
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- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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$10.95
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition. Hardcover. Fine condition in fine dust jacket. 366 pgs. Black and white photographs. Index and bibliography. The story of the American aerospace industry from early flight to strategic warfare.
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Loss of Eden: A Biography of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh
by Joyce Milton
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- New
- Jacket Condition
- new
- Edition
- First edition
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- 1993
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780060165031
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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New York: Harpercollins, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. New in new, price clipped dust jacket. First edition/ printing. Hardcover. 520 pp. with index. Illustrated with photos. The first dual biography of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Beginning with Charles's Midwestern background and the story of Anne's very different childhood as the daughter of a weathy Eastern banking family,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Amelia Earhart's Daughters : The Wild and Glorious Story of American Women Aviators from World War II to the Dawn of the Space Age
by Leslie Haynsworth and David M Toomey
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- As New
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- as new
- Edition
- First edition
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- 1998
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- Hardcover
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- 9780688152338
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William Morrow & Co, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. As new in dust jacket. First edition/ printing. Hardcover. 322 pp. with index, bibliography. Illustrated. A dramatic, inspiring look at the second and later generations of women aviators who were equally determined and courageous but whose unique history is largely unknown. Beginning in 1942, with World War… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Sky's the Limit: Women Pioneers in Aviation
by Wendy Boase
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- Used - Fine
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- fine
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- First American edition
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- 1980
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780025119703
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Macmillan Pub Co, 1980. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine condition with fine dust jacket. 223 pages. Black and white photographs. Bibliography and index. A captivating look at an international group of women flyers who first took to the air in the pioneering days of flight despite frequent scorn and ridicule. By the late… Read more about this item Item Price
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Segelflug und Segelflieger. Entwicklung- Meister- Rekorde (Gliding and Gliding Development, Champions, Records)
by Georg Brutting
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- Used - Very Good
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- First edition
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- 1935
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- Hardcover
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$19.00
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Munchen: Knorr & Hirth, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Presumed first edition. Text in old style German. Hardcover in light tan cloth lettered in blue. 215 pp. Dedicated to and with a photographic portrait plate of Hermann Goring. Illustrated with photographic plates , drawings and diagrams. Very good, small ownership signature top edge of front free… Read more about this item Item Price
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Gliding And Soaring Operation Manual
by Gustave Scheurer, et al.
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1938
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- Hardcover
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$32.50
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Detroit: Stone Aircraft Company, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. Presumed first edition. Slim hardcover in illustrated paper covered boards over green cloth spine. 73 pp. Illustrated with photographs, drawings and diagrams. About very good, some soiling to the covers and wear and bumping to the lower front outer tip. Ownership stamp front free endpaper. Practical guide to powerless flight… Read more about this item Item Price
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Overhaul Manual Wright Cyclone 14 Aircraft Engine, Series C 14 BA
by (Wright Aeronautical Corporation)
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
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- 1943
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- Hardcover
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$60.00
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Paterson, NJ: Wright Aeronautical Corp, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition (so stated on the title page). Oversized in dark brown leather limp covers. xvii + 282 pp. with index. Illustrated throughout with photographs; 5 color tinted folding pates at rear. Internally clean, small owenership signature bottom edge of title page. Cover a touch bowed… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Soviet Air Force
by Asher Lee
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- Used - Fine
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- very good
- Edition
- Revised
- Published
- 1961
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- Hardcover
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$11.95
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London: Duckworth, 1961. Revised. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Hardcover. The Revised and Enlarged Edition. 288 pp. with index. Illustrations. Fine in dust jacket with a sunned and stained spine strip, few small staiuns inner portion of the front panel. Detailed survey of the machines, organization and persons of the Soviet Air Force with this revised and updated edition bringing… Read more about this item Item Price
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