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Baidukov, Georgiy RUSSIAN LINDBERGH - the life of Valery Chkalov. £12.00
Smithsonian card cover, 1991; revised & expanded edn of the English translation of 1978, from Russian original of 1975; 330pp, 27 photos, biblio; near fine.Includes description of the controversial flight to USA over the pole, which others claim to have been fictitious.  
BN: 28803  

Bellis H.  AMY JOHNSON -  Newnes "Women of Renown" Series; card covers, 18 x 12cm, 48pp, 13 photos, map; some pages sl damp-marked, o/w vg.

£7.50
BN: 31162  

  Brett, Maurice - A SUNDAY FLYER -  Some flights and frights of a private pilot.  Cirrus Associates, 2000; card covers, 270pp, photos, maps, sketches. Fine. 

£7.50
UK private flying, 1960s & '70s.   
BN: 31062  

Cobham,Sir Alan  A TIME TO FLY -  Shepheard-Walwyn card-cover edn, 1986; 23 x 15cm, 214pp, 23 photos; fine. 

£10.00
Biography, including lists of towns visited by the Berkshire Aviation Co, & the National Aviation Day displays of 1932 to 1935.  
BN: 27819  
Frisbee, John L. MAKERS OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE - £7.50
"Office of Air Force History USAF, 01987; card covers, 347pp, many photos in text; vg except ""perfect binding"" weak. Biographical chapters on a variety of executives & commanding generals. "  
BN: 28361  
Hurley, Alfred F. BILLY MITCHELL - Crusader for air power. £8.00
Indiana Univ. Press, card cover edn, 1975 (from 1964 original); 190pp, 17 photos; near fine.  
BN: 28992  

Koehl, Hermann  BREMSKLOETZE WEG! -  Das lebensbuch eines deutschen Fliegers.  Deutsches Leben, Berlin, 1932; paper covers, 228pp, German lang, many photos,maps; bd'g loose, home-covers attached over originals, o/w vg; AUTHOR-SIGNED.

£18.00
The author's original German language account if his adventurous flying life, including the flight of the Junkers W 33 "Bremen" on the first East-Weat trip across the Atlantic in 1928, later translated into English as part of "The Three Musketeers of the Air"  
BN: 31542  

Levett, Gordon  FLYING UNDER TWO FLAGS -  an ex-RAF pilot in Israel's War of Independence.  Fnank Cass, 1994; card covers, 284pp, 33 photos; fine.

£7.50
A flying instructor during WW 2, the author was dismissed freom the RAF after a "misjudgement" and later flew Me 109s for Israel against the Egyptian Spitfires.
Interesting sidelights on the politics of the war and its effects on the nearby RAF units!
 
BN: 31365  

Seabrook, William B.  AVENTURE AERIENNE -  Paris-Sahara-Tombouctou  Grasset card cover 6th edn, from 1933 original; 261pp, 12 photos; French lang; vg

£5.00
Story of flying across the Sahara and other adventures; trip by Seabrook with Capt Wauthier, pilot and a young American novelist, in Capt Wauthier's Farman-Lorraine.  
BN: 31362
 Sleight, John  SMALL ENOUGH TO CONQUER THE SKY -  Jim Denyer, "Nr Newcastle Airport"  City of Newcastle City Libraries, 1993; card covers, 152pp, many photos, (some col); near fine.   £9.00
 After a WW 2 career as a night-fighter pilot, in No 29 Mosquito Squadron, Denyer became Director of Newcastle Airport. This is the story of that airport (including  some pre-war history) and Jim Denyer's career there.   
BN:  30659  
Travers, J.L., H.G. & C.T. CROSS COUNTRY - £14.00
Hothersall & Travers, 1990; card covers, 25 x 17cm, 602pp, photos in text; fine.Description, from family letters & log books of WW 1, 1920s & 1930s flying experiences; a super view of the period.  
BN: 24905  

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