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(Collection) DOUGLAS DC-3 ARCHIVE - £20.00
A 4 ring-binder file containing articles, drawings etc on the DC-3; 3cms thick, all vhg-fine; plus lists of operators in 1982 & 1984;  
BN: 30540  

Aerospatiale  AEROSPACE JAPAN - 1983/1984.  Card covers, 112pp, f.illus (mainly col); fine.

£7.50
Illustrated review of Japan's aerospace industry and its productsincluding aircraft, engines, flight and ground equipment.  
BN: 31358  
Air Force Museum Foundation UNITED STATES AIR FORCE MUSEUM - £5.00
c1977; card covers,28 x 21cm l'scape, 128pp, pictorial; fine.  
BN: 30537  

Alexander R.T.  HIGH ADVENTURE -  from balloons to Boeings in New Zealand.  

£9.50
NAC, 1968; card covers, 28 x 21cm l'scape; 94pp, f.illus (sketches); vg.  Nice illustrations, evocative of the times.  
BN: 30914

Biddle, Wayne  BARONS OF THE SKY -  From early flight to Strategic Warfare; story of the American Aerospace.  

£14.50
Holt ("Owl Book") card cover edn, 1993, from hardback Simon & Schuster 1st of 1991; 366pp, 40 photos, biblio; fine.  The development of the industry and the part played by the major pioneering leaders and organisations.
BN: 30889

Black, Ian  COMBAT AIR PATROL -  Airlife card covers, 2003; 27 x 23cm, 112pp, pictorial; fine.

£9.50
Illustrations of the modern jet aircraft of around 2000, "pushing the envelopes" in performance and operation.  
BN:  31430  

Braybrook, Roy  HARRIER -  The Vertical Reality  

£9.50
RAF Benevolent Fund, 1996; card covers, 28 x 22cm, 160pp, f.illus (mostly col), individual histories; fine.  
BN: 30813
Bruford, David THE AIR PILOT'S GLOSSARY & REFERENCE GUIDE - £7.50
Airlife 1st, 1994; card covers, 276pp; fine.uide to terms, codes & abbreviations.  
BN: 30419  

Chapman, John & Geoff Goodall  WARBIRDS WORLDWIDE DIRECTORY -  An international survey of the world's warbird population, past & present.  

£7.00
2nd, 1992; soft covers, 23 x 17cm, 498pp, col photos; vg (fine int).  Also - 1st edn, 1989; 21 x 15cm, 320pp; nr fine - £4.50.
BN: 30274
Christies SALE CATALOGUES - £5.00
Catalogues of Aviation sales dated 28 April 1990, 4 October 1990 & 29 April 1991. (all 27 x 21cm, f.illus (much col). (Oct-90 neatly marked with prices reached; others clean)Contain illustrations of aircraft, engines, models & ephemera, paintings etc.  
BN: 30536  

Cieslak, Gawrych & Glass  SAMOLOTY MYSLIWSKIE WRZESNIA 1939 -  Aerohobby, Warsaw, 1987; card covers, 29 x 20cm, 150pp, f,illus (photos, plans, drgs; Polish lang; vg.

£7.50
Intended for scale modellers, covers PZL P.7a & P 11, Messerschmitt Bf 109 & 110; as well as some 1939 history; v. detailed drgs & col. Markings.
BN: 31112
 Collier, Rom & Roni Wilkinson  DARK PEAK AIRCRAFT WRECKS -  Barnsley Chronicle 1979 1st edn; card covers, 40pp, f.illus; fine.   £4.00
 An account of 25 examples of  crashes in the Peak District, 1941 to 1950s.; Also - hard-back 1981 edn; fine - £7.50.    Also Doylerush "No landing place (crashes in Snowdonia), Midland Counties 1985; 96pp; fine - £3.50  
 BN: 30653  

Dodsworth, Ted WINGS OVER YORKSHIRE -  Pioneer aviators and their flying machines - a pictorial survey.  Hutton Press 1988; card covers, 24 x 23cm, l.scape; 92pp, pictorial; near fine.  

£8.00
Much on pre-WW 1 flying, airships at Howden (inc the R 38 disaster)local aerodromes etc.  
BN: 31106  

Experimental Aircraft Association  FLYING AND GLIDER MANUAL - 1929-1933 Extracts  

£6.00
EAA nd ; card covers, 28 x 21cm, 72pp; f.illus; fine.   Important articles reprinted from the 5 original volumes of 1929-1933.  
BN: 30947

Fahey, James C.  U.S. ARMY AIRCRAFT -  (Heavier-than-air), 1908-1946. "Ships & Aircraft" 1st, 1946; 64pp, hundreds of small type photos, tables of data; nr fine.  

£7.50
A really good reference & identification record.
BN: 26510

Farley, Edward J.  U.S. ARMY - AIR FORCE FIGHTER PLANES - P-1 to F-105  Aero Pubs 2nd, 1957; card covers, 26 x 18cm, 0.7cm thick; photos, 3-view line drgs; vg (fine int)

£7.50
plans suitable for modelling.
BN: 31107

FLIGHT  INTERNATIONAL Flight Collection (Posters); attractive fold-out cut-away drawing posters - fine ;- Aermacchi M346; Agusta Westland Super Lynx; Airbus Corporate Jetliner; AlliedSignal TFE731-60-1C engine; Beech Mk II; Boeing Business Jet; Boeing 767-400ER; Boeing/Northrop Grumman F/A-18E Super Hornet;Bombadier CRJ Series 700; Bombadier CRJ900; Dassault Falcon 900EX; Eight Rotary Stars (helicopters); Embraer RJ-135, Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22A Raptor; Pratt & Whitney Canada PW545 engine; Raytheon Hawker Horizon; Rolls-Royce Trent 500; Rolls-Royce Trent 800; Sikorsky S-92; Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk; Typhoon.

1.50 each
 Frawley, Gerard  THE INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF MILITARY AIRCRAFT -  1998/99   Airlife, 1998; card covers, 28 x 21cm, 191pp, f.illus (all col), glossary; fine.   £9.00
BN:  30654  

Frisbee, John L.  MAKERS OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE -  

£15.00
Office of Air Force History USAF, 01987; card covers, 347pp, many photos in text; fine.  Biographical chapters on a variety of executives & commanding generals. 
BN: 28361
 Giddings, Malcolm L.  THE BURNASTON STORY -  Author-published, 1991;  card covers, 58pp, f.illus; fine.  £4.50
BN: 30655  
   
Golley, John GENESIS OF THE JET - Frank Whittle and the invention of the jet engine £8.00
Airlife card covers, 1996 (first published as "Whittle - the true story" 272pp, 49 photos,, diags; fine (f.cover sl creased).
 
BN: 30574  

Green, Peter, Mike Hodgson & Bill Taylor  WINGS OVER LINCOLNSHIRE -

£6.00
Midland, 1994; card covers, 20 x 21cm, 60pp, pictorial (many previously unpublished photos); fine.
BN: 26820
Grey C.G. THE HISTORY OF COMBAT AIRPLANES - £14.50
Norwich University USA, Dec 1941; soft covers, 158pp; near fine.The paper for the James Jackson Cabot professorship of air transportation; an interesting view of the time by the famous and controversial author.  
BN: 26939  

Hardie, George  A FORD IN EAA'S FUTURE. 

£6.00
EAA Historical Series, 1974; card covers, 28 x 21cm, 58pp, f.illus; fine.  The development of Ford's aeronautical career.  
BN: 30943

Hawks, Ellison  BRITISH SEAPLANES TRIUMPH IN THE INTERNATIONAL SCHNEIDER TROPHY CONTESTS -  Real Photographs, 1945; 80pp, f.illus; vg except one page has tape-repaired tear.

£15.00
An account of the Schneider series, mainly describing the 1929 & 1931 events won by the Supermarine seaplanes.  
BN: 23959  

Hebrard J  VINGT-CINQ ANNEES D'AVIATION MILITAIRE -  (1920-1945)  Editions A Michel, 1946; paper covers, 290pp, maps, diags (inc some nice aircraft drgs; vg (spine paper sl torn at top)

£12.00
Covers the German re-armament, French policy and equipment & the German Air Force develiopments.  
BN: 31540  

Hollenbaugh, Bob & John Houser  AERONCA -  A photo history.  Aviation Heritage, USA, 1993; card covers, 28 x 21cm, 128pp, pictorial; fine. 

£19.50
Fully illustrated account of the Aeronca types with records and chronological data.   
BN: 31087  

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