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Livingston, Air Marshall Sir Philip. FRINGE OF THE CLOUDS - The story of an R.A.F.Doctor. |
£12.50 | |
| Johnson 1st, 1962; 254pp, 25 photos; vg. Autobiography covering the early years of the RAF in India & Iraq; the author became a specialist opthalmologist, contributing much on night vision etc in WW 2. Ended career as Director-General of RAF Medical Services. | ||
| BN: 25369 | ||
| Lomax, Judy SHEILA SCOTT - a biography. | £16.00 | |
| Hutchinson 1st, 1990; 264pp, 31 photos, map; fine inc d/w. | ||
| BN: 28351 | ||
| Lomax, Judy WOMEN OF THE AIR - | £16.00 | |
| Murray 1st, 1986; 213pp, 34 photos; fine inc d/w.Potted biographies of 12 famous lady pilots (Gertrude Bacon, Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Jean Batten, Nancy Bird, Beryl Markham, Pauline Gower, Hanna Reitsch, Jacqueline Cochran, Jacqueline Auriol & Shiela Scott). | ||
| BN: 23899 | ||
| Lovell, Mary S. THE SOUND OF WINGS - The biography of Amelia Earhart. | £16.00 | |
| Hutchinson 1st, 1989; 472pp, 59 photos, route maps; appendices & comprehensive notes; fine, nr fine d/w. | ||
| BN: 23727 | ||
| Lucas F.J. POPEYE LUCAS - Queenstown. | £16.00 | |
| Reed, Australia, 1st, 1968; 187pp, 36 photos; nr fine, vg d/w.The author served through WW 2 in the RAF, after which he was a pioneer in Australia of private enterprise light-plane flying, mostly in connection with farming. | ||
| BN: 24901 | ||
| Lucas, Laddie FIVE UP - a chronicle of five lives. | £15.00 | |
| Wingham Press rev'd edn, 1991 (from S & J 1st of 1978); 270pp, 40 photos; fine, vg d/w.The story of the author's lives as fighter pilot, journalist & writer, golfer, Company chairman & politician. | ||
| BN: 27842 | ||
| Lynn,Jack THE HALLELUJAH FLIGHT - the compelling story of an epic journey. | £15.00 | |
| Robson Books 1st UK, 1989; 24 x 16cm, 237pp; fine inc d/w.remarkable story of the first air crossing of the USA by black Americans - a struggle against short funds and unbelievable racial prejudice. | ||
| BN: 23179 |
| Mackersey, Ian SMITHY - the life of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. | £15.00 | |
| Little, Brown 1st, 1998; 416pp, 41 photos, ep maps, notes & biblio; fine, sl torn d/w. New biography, written with the collaboration of Kingsford Smith's family. | ||
| BN: 29011 | ||
| Mackersey, Ian JEAN BATTEN - the Garbo of the Skies. Macdonald 1st, UK, 1991; 465pp, 48 photos; biblio; fine, nr fine d/w. | £15.00 | |
| Full biography. | ||
| BN: 25879 | ||
| Macmillan, Norman FREELANCE PILOT - | £25.00 | |
| Heinemann, 1937; 321pp, 51 photos, 2 maps; vg sl foxing to page edges only; good d/w. Story of a flight to Spain and the attempted flight round the world with Blake. | ||
| BN: 23732 | ||
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McMillan, Peter & Terry Gwynn-Jones THE GREATEST FLIGHT - Reliving the aerial triumph that changed the world. Turner, 1995; 32 x 24cm, 256pp, mostly pictorial, mostly colour; fine inc d/w. |
£19.50 | |
| Well -illustrated description of the epic flight by McMillan and Kidby in the Vimy Replica, reliving the 1919 flight in an original Vimy by Ross & Keith Smith. | ||
| BN: 31093 | ||
| McKay, Ernest A. A WORLD TO CONQUER - the epic story of the first round-the-world flight. | £16.00 | |
| Arco USA 1st, 1981; 24 x 17cm, 201pp, 25 photos; fine, sl torn d/w.The flight by U.S.Navy Douglas D-WCs. | ||
| BN: 28185 | ||
| McNally, Ward THE MAN ON THE TWENTY DOLLAR NOTE - Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith. | £16.00 | |
| Reed (New Zealand) 1st, 1976; 216pp, many photos in text; fine, vg d/w.A re-writing of the author's previous 1966 book on Kingsford-Smith with extra facts & details. | ||
| BN: 28771 | ||
| McNally, Ward SMITHY - The Kingsford-Smith story. | £18.00 | |
| Hale l966 reprint of 1966 1st; 190pp, 14 illus; vg inc d/w. | ||
| BN: 23733 |