Pre 1945

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Österreichs Luftfahrzeuge

Price: £55.00

"Austrian Aircraft: History of Aviation to the end of 1918" Similar format to Jane's all the World's Aircraft, sections on : ballooning, airships, gliders, powered flight, flight instruments and ...
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Early Aviation at Farnborough Vol. 1

Price: £40.00

This is the first authoritative history of the early development of flying in Britain, under the aegis of what was to become the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, written by one ...
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Early Aviation at Farnborough Vol. 2

Price: £40.00

The First Aeroplanes is complementary to Dr Walker's previous, much-praised Early Aviation at Farnborough: Balloons, Kites and Airships. Covering a similar period (from 1904 up to 1910) it completes the story ...
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The Golden Age of Air Racing

Price: £12.00

The Golden Age of Air Racing in the U.S.A. during the 1930's was one of the most important periods in aviation history, and will never be repeated. However, the thrills and ...
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Early Flying Machines 1799-1909

Price: £9.00

This is an international portrait of those flying-machines which started with Sir George Cayley's design of 1799, and went to make up that great stream of endeavour which ...
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deHavilland The Golden Years 1919 to 1939

Price: £10.00

A collection of articles, technical descriptions, and drawings from Flight International and The Aeroplane, covering the deHavilland company's output between the two World Wars. The introductory pages briefly cover the military ...
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Balloons and Airships

Price: £10.00

It is nearly two hundred years since man first left the ground and travelled through the air in a vehicle of his own design. His aerial carriage was only a frail, ...
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German Aircraft in Russian and Soviet Service 1914-1940

Price: £28.00

The extent to which German research and development had influenced aviation worldwide first became apparent to aviation historians in the 1960s, however their research was concentrated exclusively on the period of ...
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Canada's Flying Heritage

Price: £10.00

This book not only records the significant events of Canadian aviation but also pays tribute to the forgotten flyers who flew by guess and by God or with calculating caution - ...
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Airship

Price: £20.00

by PatrickAbbott Published by Adams and Dart/Jupiter books 1973 1st edition. 163pp illustrated, index, appendix, bibliography. 21x26 fine, d/j near fine. The story of the R.34 and the first east ...
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Adventure Above the Clouds

Price: £6.00

by F. V. Monk, & H. T. Winter Published by Blackie and Son no date C.1935 224pp illus. with eight half-tone plates, diagrams. 13x19 boards stained and bumped on ...
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Hindenburg: An Illustrated History

Price: £16.00

by Rick Archbold Published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1994 1st edition. 229pp profusely illustrated with b&w and colour photos, drawings, and paintings by Ken Marschall 31x29 landscape, very good, ...
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The Air

Price: £8.50

by Edgar B.Schieldrop Hutchinson n/d C.1940 327pp profusely illustrated with photos, drawings, maps, diagrams, index. 16x23 near fine, d/j rubbed otherwise good. "The thrilling story of aviation from the early attempts ...
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The Rebirth of European Aviation 1902-1908

Price: £23.00

by Charles H. Gibbs-Smith Published by HMSO/Science Museum 1974 1st edition 387pp illustrated 16x25 very good in worn d/j. The development of aviation in Europe from 1902 to 1908 with particular ...
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