Category: Aviation

Howard Hughes and His Flying Boat

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Aero Publishers : January 1982

Seller ID: 63791

ISBN-13: 9780816864577

Signed by crew chief, Juker (pastedown) and inscribed by author to fellow author Joseph Littell ('A Lifetime in very Moment,' battle of Bulge survivor and Buchenwald prisoner). Square, tight and unmarked. DJ in removable mylar.
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The Emperor's Coloured Coat: In Which Otto Prohaska, Hero of the Habsburg Empire, Has an Interesting Time While Not Quite Managing to Avert the First World War (The Otto Prohaska Novels)

By: Biggins, John

Price: $7.50

Publisher: McBooks Press : May 2006

Seller ID: 49889

ISBN-13: 9781590131084

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This book follows the hapless Lieutenant Otto Prohaska in the waning years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and finds Otto taking an ill-considered break from duties to engage in a mad fling with a Polish actress. After a desperate attempt to elude his lover's husband, he finds himself mistaken by anarchists as one of their own. Otto soon masters their code names and secret handshakes, but when he also learns of their plans to assassinate the Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo, his duty is clear. He must alert his superiors-now, if only he can find someone who will believe him
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Fairey: company profile 1915-1960

By: CHORLTON, Martyn

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Kelsey : January 2012

Seller ID: 65884

ISBN-13: 9781907426605

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

A square, tight and unmarked copy.
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Mcdonnell Douglas DC-10 (Airliner Color History)

By: Endres, Gunter

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Zenith Press : November 1998

Seller ID: 65871

ISBN-13: 9780760306178

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

A square, tight and unmarked copy.
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Douglas DC-6 and DC-7 - Airliner Tech Vol. 4

By: Gann, Harry

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Specialty Press : September 1999

Seller ID: 47539

ISBN-13: 9781580070171

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

One of the illustrated series that takes a technical look at airliners. This volume includes engineering drawings, production line photographs, performance figures, powerplant details and close-ups of aircraft structures. It also contains a survey of preceeding Douglas aircraft.
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Alaskan Bush Pilot: Chalon's Memories

By: Harris, Chalon

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Blueberry Books : January 2001

Seller ID: 34329

ISBN-13: 9781886609273

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

747: Story of the Boeing Super Jet

By: Ingells, Douglas J.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Aero Publishers : June 1978

Seller ID: 61350

ISBN-13: 9780816887040

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

A square, tight and unmarked copy.
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Boeing 747-100/200/300/SP - Airliner Tech Vol. 6

By: Jenkins, Dennis R.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Specialty Press : August 2000

Seller ID: 68287

ISBN-13: 9781580070263

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

A square, tight and unmarked copy.
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The Wright Brothers: A Biography (Dover Transportation)

By: Kelly, Fred C.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Dover Publications : July 1989

Seller ID: 49888

ISBN-13: 9780486260563

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this fascinating, highly readable biography, Fred C. Kelly, a former newspaperman, author, and an old friend of the Wrights, tells the story of the two brilliant, dedicated, flight-obsessed bicycle mechanics from Ohio who first realized mankind's age-old dream of conquering the skies. Long considered the definitive Wright biography (the manuscript was read and approved by Orville Wright), this book recounts the Wrights' small-town boyhood, their early interest in all things mechanical, the establishment of the Wright Cycle Shop, and the complete behind-the-scenes story of how they designed,...
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Autobiography of Values

By: Lindbergh, Charles A.

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Mariner Books : November 1992

Seller ID: 9303

ISBN-13: 9780156094023

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From his days as a barnstorming pilot to his transatlantic flight to his role in mapping international mail routes, Lindbergh never stopped challenging himself. This is an unprecedented view of an extraordinary man. New Introduction by Reeve Lindbergh; Index; photographs and maps.

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Queen of the Skies: The Lockheed Constellation

By: Luisada, Claude G.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Pentland Press, Inc./Ivy House Publishing : January 2010

Seller ID: 45897

ISBN-13: 9781571974174

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

A square, tight and unmarked copy with text which appears unread. Dust jacket now protected in removable mylar.
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West with the Night

By: Markham, Beryl

Price: $7.00

Publisher: North Point Press : May 1983

Seller ID: 64924

ISBN-13: 9780865471184

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"West with the Night" is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.

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De Havilland Comet 1949-97: An insight into the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the world's first jet airliner (Owners' Workshop Manual)

By: Rivas, Brian

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK : November 2016

Seller ID: 46549

ISBN-13: 9780857338327

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Launched amid a blaze of British pride and technology, the beautiful de Havilland Comet was the world's first jet airliner. Its inaugural passenger-carrying flight in 1952 heralded a new era of luxurious, smooth and quiet air travel that was the envy of the world.

The Story of the Winged-S: New Chapters and Illustrations on Recent Developments of the Helicopter

By: Sikorsky, Igor I.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company : 1952

Seller ID: 37993

ISBN: 281BSY1003199

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Sm 8vo; 284pp. Ninth printing. Inscribed. Light mottling to blue cloth covers, spine with uneven fading (although navy blue lettering still bold). Repairs to underside of price-clipped dj using archival tape. Large chips, short tears and crease marks to extremities of dj which is now protected in a removable mylar cover.
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