Bailing Out: Amazing Dramas of Military Flying
by Robert Jackson
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 1844153479
- ISBN 13
- 9781844153473
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About This Item
Barnsley: Pen & Sword Aviation, 2006. To bale out of a stricken aeroplane is a pilot's or aircrew's final chance to escape death. It is a traumatic and hazardous exercise that is only practiced in extremis and is in itself full of danger with no guarantee of survival. Many struggled free of a flaming and spinning aircraft only to see their parachute alight above them, some were machine gunned to death by their opponents as they drifted to earth, some landed in mine-fields and were blown apart and many landed in forests and died suspended from the treetops. And yet many survived, some to fight again and some to become prisoners of war. This book relates the experiences of many airmen who survived to tell the tale, some quite remarkable because of pure good luck, some because of ingenuity and some through pure determination to survive at all costs. This book includes escapes from crippled German, British and US aircraft; stories of the first pilots to use parachutes in WW1; amazing escapes from aircraft in the inter-war years.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Allen Williams Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 159373
- Title
- Bailing Out: Amazing Dramas of Military Flying
- Author
- Robert Jackson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1844153479
- ISBN 13
- 9781844153473
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Aviation
- Place of Publication
- Barnsley
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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