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Washington, D. C.: U. S. Government Printing Office. Good with no dust jacket. 1952. Softcover. Paper 168-54/DO-61, issued October 8, 1954. Prepared by RTCA SC56. Green stapled wraps, typescript. ; 7-3/4" x 10-1/4"; ii, 7 pp; Covers and paper toned, light cover wear, rusted staples, slightly musty, prior owner stamp on front cover, pages clean and unmarked. .

New York: The Port of New York Authority. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1950. Softcover. Orange wraps, black lettering, text accompanied by tables and 15 full-page b&w illustrations. Published June 1950. ; 8-1/4" x 10-3/4"; xxx, 81 pp; Covers lightly worn, lightly sunned, prior owner stamp on front cover, faintly musty, pages clean and unmarked. .

San Francisco, California: Garbell Research Foundation. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1971. Softcover. Prepared for The City of South San Francisco, March 10, 1971. Yellow card covers, black cloth spine, pages numbered to 34 with a number of additional illustrations and inclusions following. ; 8-1/2" x 11"; Very slight cover wear, clean and unmarked outside and in, appears unread. .

Seattle, Washington: Boeing Airplane Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1957]. Softcover. Stiff white wraps, stapled, many color illustrations. Auditor was Touche, Niven, Bailey & Smart. Proxy solicitation materials laid in at rear. ; 8-1/2" x 11"; 32 pp; Front cover and lower edge of pages with small brown spots, light rusting to staples and a slightly mustly odor, pages are bright, clean and unmarked. .

Santa Monica, California: Douglas Aircraft Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1954]. Hardcover. Loose-leaf volumes are uniformly bound in blue leatherette C.A.A. Airplane Flight Manual covers, with typed aircraft designations to front cover, pages are three hole punched and bound in with 3 screw posts. Approval pages at front, typescrpt text, many fold-out charts. DC-6A manual is designated as Report No. 14788, for A.A.; DC-6B manual designated as Report No. 13965, U.A.L. Report pages have varous dates between 1951 and 1954. Various numberings to pages; 3-1/2" thick in all. Heavy, international shipping will be extra. ; 9" x 11-1/2"; The DC-6A was the freighter variant for this model; the DC-6B was the all-passenger variant (Wikipedia). OCLC reports a sole copy of these, held by the San Francisco Airport Commission Aviation Library. ; Covers a bit scuffed, pages show some toning, little wear. .

New York: Modern Aircraft Series, A Division of Sports Car Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1963). Softcover. Travelair, Waco, Staggerwing Beechcraft, and Many Others. Green wraps, perfect bound, covers with b&w photos of aircraft and white lettering, contents well-illustrated. 1963 copyright with no printings noted; $1.95 cover price. ; 5-1/4" x 8"; 116 pp; Spine sunned, mild creasing to covers, slight toning of page edges, contents clean and unmarked. .

Washington, D. C.: U. S. Government Printing Office. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1954. Softcover. Includes overview of State of the Art and brief history of early attempts at combining an airplane with a helicopter. Self wraps, stapled, illustrated.; 7-3/4" x 10"; 58 pp; Front cover soiled, rear cover lightly worn, rusted staples, prior owner stamp on front cover, pages clean and unmarked. .

Santa Monica, Calif.: Douglas Aircraft Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1955. Hardcover. Loose-leaf manual contained within a Boeing School of Aeronautics 3-ring cloth-covered binder. Manual has 11 Sections with index tabs, is printed and illustrated. Sections cover General Airplane Description, Limitations and Capacities, Instrument and Control Locations, Systems Description, Basic Performance Data, Operaqting Techniques, Check Lists, Emergency Procedures, Extreme-Cold Weather Operation, Flight Planning and Converions Tables (with an index). Each section is separately numbered. This copy was issued 1 September 1954 and Revised 1 April 1955. ; 9-1/2" x 11-1/2"; Uncommon. OCLC reports only two of these - one in Canada and the other at the Hunt Library in Daytona Beach. ; Notebook toned and faded along edges, spotting seen only on first page. .

Rostock: C. J. E. Volckmann Nachfolger. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1909. Hardcover. Eine Anleitung zur Konstruktion von Gleitfliegern, Schraubenfliegernund Schaufelfliegern, ihrer Tragdecken, Trag- und Treibschrauben, nebst einem Anhang über Luftschiffe. Brown cloth, front lettered white, many illustrations of early flying machines, charts and tables (Mit 37 Abbildungen). 2 pps publishers ads at rear. Text in German ; 6-1/4" x 9-3/4"; 78 pp; Spine lettering rubbed off, boards lightly rubbed, pages lightly toned. Solid hinges, pages clean and free of tears or writing. .

The Flying Tiger Line Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1952]. Softcover. A Boorum & Pease Co. "Standard" Loose Leaf book of black leatherette with six holes punched at left. Cover stamped FLYING TIGER LINE in yellow, 621 in gilt. Contains original loose-leaf manual with many illustrated pages, many fold-outs. Not dated, but the notebook has a 1952 calendar card at the front. Laid in is a Braniff International Doppler Sensor Check card. ; 4-1/2" x 6-1/4"; Rubbing to exterior, one page wrinkled and torn at the bottom with a small loss, minor wear to a few pages. .

Rochester, N. Y.: General Railway Signal Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1947. Softcover. Identified as Pamphlet 644, October 1947. Still blue wraps, cover illustrating aircraft approach for landing, metal comb binding at left, typescript text, illustrations include diagram of The G-R-S Airport Approach Control System at LaGuardia, photographs of Approach Control Equipment and Relay cabinets. ; 8-1/2" x 11"; 57 pp; Adaptation of railroad lighting technology to airport design. A rare find. No copies in trade or institutions (per OCLC). (November 2020). ; Corners a bit bumped, clean and unmarked. .

New York: The Macmillan Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1929. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Author was U. S. Navy Lieutenant. Publishers gray cloth, lettered in blue front and spine, photographs of monoplanes and bi-planes. ; 6" x 8-1/2"; xii, 291 pp; Ex-library, marked on spine, title page stamped and with pocket and slip remnants at rear, boards coated with protective varnish. Otherwise little wear apart from bumped rear board at top. .

Geneva, Switzerland: Aéronautique. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. Mustard cloth, covers lettered in silver and red, silver spine lettering. Thumb tabs offer sections divided geographically, Who Is Where section offers worldwide directory of aviation professionals. Content offered in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Quite heavy, international postage will be extra. ; 9" x 12"; 1235 pp; Spine and tabs show sun fading, pages edges toned, little wear, no writing. .

Eastern [Airlines]. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1972. Softcover. More than 200 pages of exploding diagrams of each component system of this aircraft. "This book is for training purposes only. Consult the L-1011 Maintenance Manual for the latest information, data, tolerances, and procedures." Stiff white wraps, white plastic comb binding at left, pages printed front side only, sections separately numbered. P.S. 72-31613, November 1972.; 5-3/4" x 7"; Front cover with sunned areas, covers lightly soiled, no marks or inscriptions to clean pages. .

East Pittsburgh, Pa.: Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1948]. Softcover. Booklet promotes Westinghouse products and expertise for airport lighting. Discusses application of equipment, specific products and typical lighting plans to make night flying possible. Stiff coated wraps, metal comb binding at left, covers and content printed in black with spot blue, some fold-outs. One topic of this brochure is All-Weather Approach Lighting, an advance that made possible landing in inclement weather. Included wirh this item is a 6-panel 8-1/2" x 11" leaflet describing the Westinghouse All Weather Approach Lighting System. ; 8-1/2" x 11"; 49 pp; An uncommon item, not seen in the trade or held in any institutions reporting on OCLC (11/2020). OCLC does report Westinghouse literature related to airport lightling applications as far back as the late 1920s. These efforts were instrumental in making nighttime flying possible. ; Wear at corners includes… Read More

New York: Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1955. Softcover. B.E.A.'s Results with the operation of the Vickers-Armstrongs Viscount; (four Rolls-Royce Dart turbo-prop engines) with Some Thoughts on Future Possibilities. Presented at the Fifth International Aeronautical Conference, June 20-24, 1955. A Sherman M. Fairchild Publication Fund Preprint. Sir Masefield was at the time Chief Executive of British European Airways. White self-wraps, stapled, 61 typescript pages printed two-per panel, followed by 52 charts, photos, etc. (printed 3-4 per panel). ; Oblong, 8-1/4" x 11"; Covers lightly soiled, faint vertical crease, rusted staples. One phrase (only) is underlined "policy view that we shall not buy any new type of aeroplane with piston engines", otherwise pages clean and unmarked. .

Linköping, Sweden: Saab Aircraft Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1955. Softcover. Brachistochrone flight paths, special optimum problems of the vertical plane flight, time-optimal , fuel-optimal flight paths, related systems of Euler equations are put into a form convenient for machine computation. Blue wraps, stapled, equations, text in English. ; 8" x 11-1/2"; 22 pp; Covers lightly worn and soiled, staples rusted, prior owner stamp on front cover, pages clean and unmarked. .

Linköping, Sweden: Saab Aircraft Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1955. Softcover. Discusses zero-yaw optimal-time flight path in the horizontal plane. Blue wraps, stapled, equations, text in English. ; 8" x 11-1/2"; 24 pp; Covers lightly worn, staples rusted, prior owner stamp on front cover, pages clean and unmarked. .

PSA / Pacific Southwest Airlines. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1978. Softcover. Original loose-leaf training guide; issued as Document No. 4-13, with all pages revision of 4 Dec 78. Light blue wraps, bound using two thumb screw posts, well-illustrated, List of Effective Pages at front. ; 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"; D, 382 pp; Staining to front cover bleeding slightly onto first leaf, light soiling to rear cover. Pages clean and unmarked. .

Montreal: International Civil Aviation Organization. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1969. Softcover. Issued by ICAO as Doc 8857. NOISE (1969). J. H. Harper was Chairman of the Meeting. Blue wraps, perfect bound, typescript pages, tables, graphs. Separately numbered sections, about 150 pages. ; 8" x 10-1/4"; Spine worn at top/bottom, covers lightly worn, pages have some faint creasing and are clean and unmarked. .