| Ingells, Douglas J. THE PLANE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD - a biography of the DC-3. | £15.00 | |
| Aero Publishers, 1966; card covers, 27 x 18cm, 256pp, f.illus; fine int, vg ext. | ||
| BN: 27495 | ||
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Jackson, Robert AVRO VULCAN - PSL card covers, 1987; 24 x 17cm, 184pp, f.illus (photos, 3-view line drgs); fine. |
£8.50 | |
| Full type history. | ||
| BN: 24185 | ||
| Jackson, Robert THE GUINESS BOOK OF AIR WARFARE - | £9.50 | |
| Guiness, 1993; card covers, 24 x 17cm, 256pp, f.illus; near fine. | ||
| BN: 28498 | ||
|
Johnson G.H.R. THE MILES MAGISTER - Newark Air Museum; nd; 64pp, f.illus (photos, 3-view line drgs, fold-outcut-away, diags); near fine. |
£9.00 | |
| Potted type history inc cut-away drg and some markings details. | ||
| BN: 25564 | ||
| Jones, Geoff & Chuck Stewart AMERICAN CLASSICS OF THE AIR - Commercial and private aeroplanes from the 1920s to the 1960s. | £8.00 | |
| Airlife 1st, 2000; card covers, 27 x 23cm, 112pp, pictorial (all colour): fine. | ||
| BN: 30530 | ||
|
McClendon, R. Earl AUTONOMY OF THE AIR ARM - |
£15.00 | |
| U.S. Air Force History & Museums Program, 1996; card covers, 200pp, a few photos in text, expensive notes & biblio; fine. Reprint of the text published in 1954 based on 1948 original work. Mainly about the struggle for autonomy of the Air Service ; with interesting parallels with the British RAF. | ||
| BN: 30894 | ||
|
Maher, Peter THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN - The Lancashire Aero Club Lancashire Aero Club, 1992; card covers, 29 x 21cm, 90pp, photos, airfield plans, picture covers; fine. |
£7.50 | |
| BN: 31108 | ||
|
March, Peter R. BAE SYSTEMS - A PROUD HERITAGE IN AVIATION - RAF Benevolent Fund 2nd, 2000 (from 1995 1st); card covers, 28 x 21cm, 104pp, pictorial; fine |
£9.00 | |
| Illustrates many of the products of the companies that joined to eventually become BAE - inc good photos of early Airspeed, Avro, Armstrong-Whitworth, BA, Blackburn, bristol, DH, English Electric, Gloster, Hawker, Percival, Scottish Aviation,Sopwith,Supermarine & Vickers aircraft. | ||
| bn: 31437 | ||
| Mason, Francis K. HAWKER HUNTER - biography of a thoroughbred. PSL 2nd, 1985 card cover edn (from 1981 original); 256pp, f.illus (photos, cut-aways), production lists with Serial numbers; fine. | £8.00 | |
| BN: 22606 | ||
| Ministry of Aviation (HMSO) U.K.AIR PILOT - 1965; hard covers,loose-leaf 29 x 27cm, 6cm thick, hard covers; vg with many amendment sheets mostly dated 1964/1965. Vg. | £20.00 | |
| Post-war version of the long-standing "Air Pilot" publication. Covers Aerodromes, Communications, Meteorology, Air traffic rules & services, maps & charts etc. | ||
| BN: 30740 | ||
|
Moran, Gerald P. THE CORSAIR AND OTHER AEROPLANES VOUGHT - 1917-1977. |
£20.00 | |
| Sunshine House (Aviation Heritage Books), 1991; second printing of "Aeroplanes Vought" of 1978 by Historical Aviation Album; card covers, 28 x 21cm, 164pp, f.illus; fine | ||
| BN: 30918 | ||
|
Moreau-Berillon,Commandant E. L'AVIATION FRANCAISE 1914-1940 Ses escadrilles, ses insignes |
£200 | |
| Privately published (limited to 1,000); over 200 separate sheets, 33 x 25cm, each with hand-coloured insignia (about 4 to a page), in 8 card folders and overall in a large envelope.This item can be supplied, alternatively, to special order and to individual customer's requirements, in a 1/4-leather binding at an extra £90. A most extraordinary work - nothing like it can ever be expected to be produced again! Insignia & history of all French squadrons, from WW 1 to 1940, with explanations of the structure & composition of the French Air Force at each period, lists of squadrons, orders of battle, personnel statistics etc. French lang throughout. | ||
| BN: 21418 | ||
|
Muir, Richard HISTORY FROM THE AIR - Hundreds of photographs of Great Britain frim a unique perspective. |
£9.00 | |
| Mermaid, 1983 (card cover edn), 30 x 23cm, 271pp, aerial photos (some col) (pictorial); near fine. Fine photos, many with archaological reference. | ||
| BN: 30948 | ||
| Negus, Geoffrey & T.Stadden AVIATION IN BIRMINGHAM - MCP 1st 1984; card covers, 24 x 17cm, 128pp, f.illus; fine. | £5.00 | |
| Well illustrated history. | ||
| BN: 26274 | ||
|
Nolan, Pat (with Bob Pooley) FLY IN IRELAND - |
£5.00 | |
| AOPA, Ireland, undated, card covers, 62pp, airfield locations and plans (as Pooley guides); vg. | ||
| BN: 30921 | ||
| Ogilvy, David UK AIRSPACE - IS IT SAFE? - Foulis 1st, 1989, card covers, 23 x 17cm, 136pp, photos, maps, col covers; fine. | £6.00 | |
| BN: 30651 | ||
|
Owen, Kenneth CONCORDE - Story of a supersonic pioneer. Science Museum, 2001; card covers, 24 x 19cm, 318pp, f. illus, chronoogy, biblio; fine. |
£18.00 | |
| A more detailed history than the aurgor's previous book - including the technical conception, design, development, the politics, the achievement, the possible competitors & successors. Recommended. | ||
| BN: 31279 | ||
|
Players cigarettes AN ALBUM OF AEROPLANES (CIVIL) - 1930s cigarette cards mounted in the company's booklet; vg (sl soiled) |
£7.50 | |
| BN: 26006 | ||
|
Rajlich, Jiri & Jiri Sehnal CESKOSLOVENSKE LETECTVO - 1918-1924 (Czech Aircraft 1918-1924) Kolinske Noviny, 1992; card covers, 30 x 21cm, 56pp, pictorial (inc col artwork); fine. |
£7.50 | |
| BN: 31386 | ||
|
Regan, Geoffrey THE GUINESS BOOK OF FLYING BLUNDERS - Guiness Pub., 1996; 25 x 19cm, 192pp, many photos etc; fine. |
£11.50 | |
| Mistakes down the decades - and some of their consequences, especially in wartime strategic planning and blind leadership. | ||
| BN: 31374 | ||
|
Robinson, Brian R. AVIATION IN MANCHESTER - A short history. R.Ae.S.,Manchester Branch, 1977; 96pp, f.illus; near fine. |
£6.00 | |
| Pictures from the ballooning, pioneer, WW 1, between-the wars, WW 2 & later periods | ||
| BN: 25567 | ||
|
Simons, Graham M. DH 86 EXPRESS - International friends of the DH 89, 1987; soft covers, 20pp, line drgs, diags; fine. |
£3.50 | |
| Also the later, 1986 revision; 24 x 18cm, 58pp, glossy picture card covers, f.illus; fine - £7. Also - DH-84 Dragon by same author; undated (1980s); 21 x 14cm, 24pp, photos, plans, drgs; fine - £4.50 | ||
| BN: 30559 | ||
|
Sloan, Roy EARLY AVIATION IN NORTH WALES - |
£4.50 | |
| Gwaeg Carreg Gwalch, 1989; card covers, 18 x 12cm, 167pp, many photos; fine. Pioneer period to 1930s. | ||
| BN: 27917 | ||
| Smith, Alan SCHNEIDER TROPHY DIAMOND JUBILEE - looking back 60 years. Waterfront pub. 1991; card covers, 27 x 22cm, 56pp, pictorial; fine. Also 2nd Imp, 1995; fine - £8. | £8.00 | |
| Planes & personalities from the series of races. | ||
| BN: 27905 | ||
|
A & A.P. (M.Skinner) U.S.A.F.E. - a primer of modern air combat in Europe. 1983 1st, card covers, 23 x 21cm, 138pp, f.illus (some col); fine |
£4.50 | |
| review, with some excellent photos, of NATO air power in Europe. | ||
| BN: 23297 | ||
| Smithsonian Libraries INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF AEROSPACE AWARDS AND TROPHIES - | £10.00 | |
| Smithsonian Inst, 1978; card covers, 28 x 21cm, 2cm thick; fine. | ||
| BN: 29218 | ||
| Sweetman, Bill & J.Goodall LOCKHEED F-117A - Operation & development of the Stealth Fighter. | £7.50 | |
| Haynes, 1990; card covers, 23 x 19cm, 96pp, photos, line drgs, unit badges; fine.Also similar, Sweetman "YF-22 & YF-23 advanced tactical fighters" - Motorbooks, 1991; 96pp; fine - £7.50. | ||
| BN: 26508 | ||
|
Szurovy, Geza WINGS OF YESTERYEAR - the golden age of private aircrafr . Motorbooks USA, 2004' card covers, 25 x 25cm, 168pp, pictorial; fine. |
£16.00 | |
| well-illustrated review of U.S. private flying scene, before and after WW 2. | ||
| BN: 31090 | ||
|
Teague, Dennis C & P.R.White A GUIDE TO THE AIRFIELDS OF SOUTH WEST ENGLAND - (Revised edn) |
£5.50 | |
| Baron Jay, rev-d edn, 1982 (from 1980 1st); card covers, 76pp, f.illus; fine. Many photos of aircraft & buildings. | ||
| BN: 30940 | ||
|
Underwood, John & John Caler EXPERIMENTAL LIGHT AIRCRAFT AND MIDGET RACERS - Aero Publishers 1958; card covers, 28 x 21cm l'scape; 72pp, mostly pictorial; vg. |
£18.00 | |
| Photos & descriptions of over 300 light planes & thisa amazing midget racers. | ||
| BN: 31111 | ||
|
VFW FOCKE-WULF A47-Fw 47 WETTERFLUGZEUG - Flugzeug Monographie No 1. Flugzeug-Monographie No 1 of the 1933/4 aircraft; card covers, undated, 28 x 20cm, 50pp, line drgs of variants, many photos; vg (f. cover sl torn) UBN 27022 |
£10.00 | |
| Waters, Andrew W. ALL THE U.S. AIR FORCE AIRPLANES, 1907-1983 - Hippocrene Books USA 1st, 1983; card covers, 25 x 18cm, 413pp, many photos, tables; fine. | £12.00 | |
| Arranged by category, withg photos of some of the more important aircraft types. | ||
|
Webster, Jack THE FLYING SCOTS - a century of aviation in Scotland. |
£12.00 | |
| Glasgow Concert Hall, 1994; card covers, 30 x 21cm, f.illus (some col); fine. | ||
| BN:29219 | ||
| Wilson, Stewart THE LIGHT AIRCRAFT GUIDE - a comprehensive history of 100 types since 1945. | £7.50 | |
| Author-pub, 1987; card covers, 27 x 21cm, 178pp, f.illus (some col); vg.Mostly American & European types. | ||
| BN: 30278 | ||
|
Winkler, Eduard F. A CIVILIAN AFFAIR - A brief history of the Civilian Aircraft Company of Hedon. |
£7.50 | |
| Flight Recorder Pubs, 2003; 29 x 21cm, 48pp, f.illus (photos, diags, 3-view drg;; fine. Useful as part of the history of British light aircraft. | ||
| BN: 30917 | ||
|
Zazas, James B. VISIONS OF LUSCOMBE - The Early Years. |
£18.00 | |
| Sunshine House (Aviation Heritage Library Series), 1st, 1993; card covers, 28 x 22cm, 319pp, f.illus (some col); fine except one corner sl bumped. Well illustrated account of the Luscombe range of aircraft. | ||
| BN: 30925 |
