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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  

Aeroplane magazine  OUTPACING THE SUN -  1,132mph  22 page article (plus advts) from The Aeroplane. Photos, 3-view drgs, maps; vg.

£4.00
BN: 30853  
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

Bach, Martin  BOEING 367 Stratofreighter/377 Stratocruiser & Guppies -  NARA Verlag, 1996; card covers, 30 x 21cm, 71pp, f.illus (photos, line drgs - some col); German text with English summary; fine.

£8.00
BN: 30248  

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

Birtles, Philip & Allan Burney  CONCORDE -  Ian Allan1986; card covers, 29 x 21cm, 48pp, pictorial; fine. 

£4.50
BN: 31717  

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  

Butler, Phil  LIVERPOOL - JOHN LENNON AIRPORT -  an illustrated history.   Tempus 2008 ((from 2004 original); card covers, 25 x 17cm, 192pp, f.illus; fine.

£9.50
History from opening in 1933  
BN: 31726  

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

£4.50
1st, 1989;  soft covers, 23 x 17cm, 320pp, col photos; fine.  
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  

Crawford, O.G.S.  AIR-PHOTOGRAPHY FOR ARCHAEOLOGISTS -  Ordnance Survey Professional Papers, New Series No 12.  HMSO, 1929; soft covers, 32 x 25cm, 19 full-page plates with captions opposite and a 2-page intro; dog-eared corners, o/w vg. 

£18.00
Examples of the evidence of historical buildings showing under grass & crops.  
BN: 31766  

Dorr, Robert F.  FIGHTING COLOURS -  glory days of US aircraft markings.  Airlife 1st, 1990; card covers, 27 x 23cm, 128pp, pictorial (all col); fine. 

£10.00
Also - Michael O'Leary "Jet Warbirds" - (Sabres, MIGs, Hunters & more civilian-owned military jets); card covers, 27 x 23cm, 128pp, pictorial; fine - £8.50.  
BN: 27923

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  
   
   
   
 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  

Giddings, Malcolm L.  THE BURNASTON STORY -  Author-published, 1991; card covers, 58pp, f.illus; fine.

£4.50
Burnaston aerodrome, Derbyshire.  
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

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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