Search Results: Aviation from Legacy Books II

NY: The Century Company, 1904. Book. Illus. by Andre Castaigne. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 8pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 3 drawings, including 1 full-page plate, and a photographic portrait of A. Santos - Dumont, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXVIII, No. 5, September, 1904. Illustrations include Santos - Dumont leaving his station at St. Cloud for a voyage in his airship, and a drawing of a reception of the Aero Club at the Automobile Club, Place De La Concorde, Paris. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve..

Washington: GPO, 1961. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 20pp extract, references, notes, illustrated with 2 plates, salvaged from a damaged copy of the Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year 1960. Wind tunnel experiments, comparison flight studies, bird and airplane, soaring, Lilienthal, Langley, Wright Brothers, Rayleigh, etc. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

Washington: GPO, 1898. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 16pp extract, includes 3 full-page charts, salvaged from a damaged copy of the Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution To July 1897. Balloon ascents for scientific study. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

Washington: GPO, 1956. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. pp241 - 271, illus with 10 plates, salvaged from a ruined copy of the Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year 1955. The author was Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and a Regent at the Smithsonian Institution..

Washington: GPO, 1941. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 12pp extract, salvaged from a damaged copy of the Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year Ended June 30 1940. The author was President of the Engineering Section, British Association for the Advancement of Science. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

Washington: GPO, 1946. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 11pp extract, salvaged from a ruined copy of the Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year Ended June 30 1945. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

Washington: GPO, 1912. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 8pp extract, chart, salvaged from a damaged copy of the Annual Report Of The Board of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year Ending June 30, 1911. A pilot must recognize his position, determine the direction of the point to be reached, and rapidly estimate the distance remaining to be covered. This is an important work presenting the initiative by France to produce an air map. It includes the adoption by the International Aeronautical Federation of the principle that the meridian of Greenwich would be the origin of the longitudes. Author was president of the French Association for the Advancement of Sciences. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: The Century Company, 1894. Book. Illus. by F. L. M. Pape / A. B. Sewell / F. H. Wellington, Engraver. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 3pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with a full-page plate, drawn by Pape, after a sketch by Sewell, engraved by Wellington, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XLVII, No. 6, April, 1894. The author's first-hand account of a short balloon flight in Paris, 1886. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

Washington: GPO, 1935. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 16pp extract, references, illustrated, salvaged from a damaged copy of the Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year Ending June 30, 1933. The phenomenon of flying fish. Author was at the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan..

London: George Newnes, Ltd, 1899. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 6pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 9 photographs and a comparison table of the current flying machine and a balloon, salvaged from a damaged copy of The Strand Magazine, Volume XVII, No. 101, June, 1899. Russian Dr. K. I. Danilewsky's August, 1899, trials in his dirigible flying machine. Photos include the wings, a view just before take off, an ascent, several views of the craft flying, a descent, and a landing. Housed in protective mylar report cover. Very scarce..

Washington: GPO, 1912. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 7pp extract, illustrated with 8 plates of birds in flight, salvaged from a damaged copy of the Annual Report Of The Board of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year Ending June 30, 1911. A study of birds starting, steering, slowing - up, turning, alighting. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

Washington: GPO, 1950. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 3pp extract, salvaged from the Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year Ended June 30 1949. December 17, 1948, on the 45th anniversary of the first flight by the Wright Brothers, the original aeroplane became the property of the American people at a formal ceremony at the U. S. National Museum. It was presented by Milton Wright on behalf of the estate of Orville Wright. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

Washington: GPO, 1905. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 4pp extract, salvaged from a damaged copy of the Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year Ending June 30, 1904. A look at the wing surface and weight of various flying creatures including birds and insects. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

Washington: GPO, 1951. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 11pp extract, salvaged from a damaged copy of the Annual Report Of The Board of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year Ending June 30, 1950. Includes a list of accessions. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

Washington: GPO, 1944. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 22pp extract, illustrated, salvaged from a damaged copy of the Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year Ended June 30 1944. The aim of research, the independent worker in research, research on a large scale, a survey of 25 years' achievement, drag reduction, weight analysis, structural developments, stability and control, power plant developments, the task of research, problems of the immediate future, the management of research. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

London: George Newnes, Ltd, 1899. Book. Illus. by W. B. Wollen. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 10pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Strand Magazine, Volume XVII, #100, May, 1899. Fictional account of a military mission to retrieve a hot air balloon from behind enemy lines. Very scarce..

NY: The Century Company, 1897. Book. Illus. by George Wright. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo. 40pp story, printed in double columns, illustrated, final page only in reproduction, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LIV, Nos. 3 - 6, July - October, 1897. Pre-publication appearance of this fictional account of an ascent of the Matterhorn in a sky-boat, or boat attached to a balloon. See Wright's American Fiction, #4306. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

Washington: GPO, 1910. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 16pp extract, salvaged from a damaged copy of the Annual Report Of The Board of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year Ending June 30, 1909. Monoplanes, biplanes, aeroplanes with and without tails, rigid, semi - rigid, and flexible type balloons. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve..