Testing Time: The Story fo British Test Pilots and Their Aircraft
by Constance Babington-Smith
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Bros, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First printing. Hardcover. 224 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated. Fine in very good, spine sunned dust jacket. The development of the combined art and science of test piloting over fifty years from the early 20th century through 1960. Herein we meet the pioneers, improvisers, showmen and brave pilots who tested the airplane--Samual Franklin Cody, a character out of an American Wil;d West show; Wilfred Parke, the first Englishman who after recovering from a spin was able to analyze how he had done so; Harry Hawker, the firts loop-the-looper; Sir Henry Tizard, who laid the foundation of RAF test flying; and others.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E17890B
- Title
- Testing Time: The Story fo British Test Pilots and Their Aircraft
- Author
- Constance Babington-Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Bros
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- aviation, flying, pilots, planes, aeroplanes, airplanes, test pilots,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aviation;
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The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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