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Owen Zupp, Bowral, NSW, 2014. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 50 More Tales of Flight' continues the aviation adventure. From the open-air cockpit of an antique biplane to the beads-of-sweat realism of fighter jet simulators, the reader is taken aloft. Aircraft are flown across the globe, while others are found decaying in the deepest jungles. These tales embrace aviation from the ground up, embracing its history, its people and the magic of the wind slipping beneath the wings. There are moments of beauty and trepidation. In this pursuit of aviation, new friends are made and old ones are lost. In this pilot’s journey from the crib to the cockpit is where you will find, ’50 More Tales of Flight 256 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Aviation; Australia; Aviation; ISBN/EAN: 9780987495457. Inventory No: 261783. . 9780987495457

Promotional Reprint Company, London, 1997. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Copious illustrations trace the history and development of our commercial airlines. Times of growth and times of trial are objectively discussed. 224 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Aviation; Aviation; ISBN: 1856484262. ISBN/EAN: 9781856484268. Inventory No: 267006.. 9781856484268 This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

ABC Books, Australia, 2013. Softcover. Very Good Condition. The thrilling life of Bert Hinkler, Bundaberg boy, who grew up to become a pioneer of aviation, Mussolini's favourite pilot, dubbed 'the most daring man in the world' by adoring crowds who turned out to see him fly. Grantlee Kieza tells the thrilling story of Bert's life and with it the bigger story of how the world was changed forever by men like Hinkler. Fast paced and revealing, this is an overdue, full-blooded biography about one of Australia's most astonishing sons. He's all but been lost from history but once upon a time, Bert Hinkler, a small, unprepossessing man from Bundaberg was feted as one of the most daring aviators in the world. Mussolini's favourite pilot, Hinkler was an adventurer who along with early pioneers flew single handed across countries, continents and oceans-often with nothing more than a lunchbox and the page of an atlas to guide him. Whether as an aerial showman or as a World War I… Read More

Metro Books, New York, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Ever since Orville and Wilbur Wright tested their flying machine on the sands of Kitty Hawk, designers, builders and pilots have striven to take their planes farther, faster, higher. Presented on the beautiful, large, color pages are the stories and images of 22 of the greatest models ever built, from the Wright Flyer and the French Blériot XI to the Concorde Supersonic Transport SST and the Northrop B-2 Stealth Bomber. Each of these aircraft introduced new design concepts that opened up whole new vistas in the field of aeronautical engineering: that's what makes them classics. Along with planes such as the Fokker D-VII (Germany), Sopwith Camel (U.K.), Sikorsky Ilya-Mourometz (USSR), Messerschmitt Bf 109f (Germany), and Mitsubishi A6M-3 Risen: The Zero (Japan), come a cast of fascinating, eccentric characters who dedicated their lives to flying high. 142 pages. Inscription to previous owner on front endpaper.… Read More

Time Life, USA, 1982. Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Small brown marks on first 4 pages top right hand corner 176 pages. Light foxing to outer page edges. Illustrated with colour and black and white photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Aviation; Aviation; ISBN: 080943329X. ISBN/EAN: 9780809433292. Inventory No: 237200. . 9780809433292

Dorling Kindersley, 2015. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Very Good Condition. This fascinating journey through a century of flight captures the spirit and excitement of aviation past and present, from the Wright brothers' first airborne attempts to the story behind the space race.Travellers: Live through the bone-jarring, first moments of flight with pioneers such as Orville Wright, Harriet Quimby and Roland Garros. With absorbing profiles of the key personalities and the planes they flew, witness how flight became a reality.Trailblazers: Adventurous fliers like Lindbergh and Earhart pushed the boundaries even further during the "golden age" of flight in the 1920s and '30s. Discover how these trailblazers conquered transatlantic routes and paved the way for new luxury passenger jets.Tragedies and Triumphs: Remarkable images of flying boats, airships and space rockets combine with accounts of events such as the Hindenburg disaster, the U-2 spy plane… Read More

Rigby Limited, Australia, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft is a fully international guide, listing all the world's manufacturers of production aircraft, both military and civil, from the beginning of powered flight to the present day. The A to Z arrangement of this valuable reference book provides details of almost 1500 manufacturers and is designed to give the general reader a wide acquaintanceship with thousands of different types of aircraft and at the same time serve the more knowledgeable expert with easily accessible information. A reference book of this scope belongs in the library of all aviation enthusiasts as a vital research tool. - Provides all the important information on a huge range of manufacturers - Features over 1000 stunning images of a huge range of aircraft - Includes an extensive introduction on the history of aviation 320 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Aviation;… Read More

Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2015. Softcover. Good Condition. Patrick Gordon 'Bill' Taylor was a pioneer of Australian aviation. As a fighter pilot during the First World War, he was awarded the Military Cross and discovered a life-long passion for flight and air navigation. Returning to Australia after the war, he became a close friend of Charles Kingsford Smith; they went on to form an incredible flying partnership, setting records around the globe. It was on a flight across the Tasman in Smithy's famous Southern Cross that Taylor earned the Empire's highest award for civilian bravery, the George Cross. With one engine out of action and another fast running out of oil, Taylor repeatedly climbed out of the cockpit to transfer oil to the stricken engine and keep the Southern Cross flying - all this while suspended over the sea in a howling slipstream. After the deaths of his friends Charles Ulm and Kingsford Smith in separate accidents, Taylor became Australia's greatest… Read More

Peacock Press / Bantam Books, USA, 1982. Softcover. Good Condition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Aviation; Aviation; ISBN: 055301384X. ISBN/EAN: 9780553013849. Inventory No: 263646. . 9780553013849

Northam Aero Club, Australia, 2018. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Signed by Author. A dirt strip in country Western Australia. Four young men desperately wanted tolearn to fly an airplane. They took on the challenge to make their dreams realityand won. But not without struggle not the least the lack of finances.How did they do it?This is a story that heralds volunteers born with heart to give and applauds menand women who use the sky for their playground.You will meet these characters and many more through the fifty-year history of theNortham Aero Club. And you will meet Pam the Lamb and Bassey the cat wholived on the burgeoning airfield with their favourite pilot in his hangar.It is a story of aviators, their dreams, their endeavours, a growing township, andthe making of a ground for youngsters to move from a flying club to a life andcareer in aviation.This busy airstrip 96km north east of Perth in Western Australia now provides… Read More

Herron & Murray, Great Britain, 2016. Softcover. As New. To fly through the air to harness the power and freedom of the birds. This was mankind's dream and desire, most arguably, since crawling out of the primordial ooze. It would be centuries before that dream would come true. Aviation itself has only been around in aircraft form since 1900. The first airplanes initially were crude machines without much use or perceived use. In a short 10 years after 1903 starting with World War I, aircraft became very useful and integral to war efforts. A newer design would quickly replace and cause the prior design to become obsolete in a matter of months or within a year. This obsolescence of aircraft repeated during World War II and later during the Cold War. Illustrated with colour photographs. GIFT QUALITY . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Aviation; Aviation; ISBN/EAN: 9781925449068. Inventory No: 254960. . 9781925449068

BBC Books, London, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Reaching for the Skies is the dramatic and entertaining story of many of this century's most colourful adventurers. It shows how, thanks to the dreams, courage, and inspiration of a few hundred people, the aeroplane has developed from a Heath Robinson contraption of wooden struts and fabric into a machine of steel and aluminium that can circle the Earth in 100 minutes and reach our into space.From the first manned flight in a balloon in 1783 and Orville and Wilbur Wright's first 12-second in an aeroplane in 1903 to the X-15 and Concorde in the 1960s and the Shuttle in the 1980s, it is a story of pilots and plane makers who have taken up the challenge of flight and conquered the skies. Brave men rub shoulders with hucksters, greed competes with patriotism, technical genius joins hands with the spirit of adventure. War inevitably plays an important part in the story, as do luck and vision, as one technological… Read More

Imperial War Graves Commission, London, 1953. Softcover. Good Condition. Cover and pages have a few creases. A notation has been added to the one photograph from the air re new gardens. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: War::World War II; History; Aviation. Inventory No: 257264. .

A.H. & A. W. Reed Pty Ltd, Wellington, 1965. Reprint. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Map endpapers. Corner of front cover bending inwards. 222 pages. Light foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket has rubbing, chips and tears to edges. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Aviation; New Zealand; Aviation; Inventory No: 265389..

Bunker Hill Publishing, Piermont, New Hampshire, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. This first-of-its-kind, definitive book offers a fascinating textual and visual tour of civilian, military, and commercial aviation from the earliest balloon flights to today's most advanced aircraft. Featuring 100 newly commissioned and historic maps as well as 200 related photographs, navigation charts, and historic artifacts, the Smithsonian Atlas of World Aviation charts the awe-inspiring history of flight around the world. Dana Bell, a leading expert on aviation history, explains the fascinating stories behind aviation's great technological advances and provides historic and social context that highlights the many ways in which these advances have changed the course of human history. Groundbreaking maps and charts include: Locations of first flights and early transatlantic flights Pan American Airways international mail and passenger routes Air sequences of the Battle of… Read More

Bullion Books, NSW, 1989. Hardcover. Good Condition/Very Good. This is the story of commercial aviation - of the individual airlines which grew out of humble beginnings into the corporate giants they are today. It is also the story of people. People such as Paterson, Six, Boeing, Fysh, Trippe, Hanshue, Plesman, Rickenbacker, Hughes, Frye and many other who pioneered commercial aviation and went on to found some of the greatest airlines in the world. The names of Boeing, Douglas, Lockhhed, Fokker, etc., are synonymous with flying today; but what of other pioneers, of companies which have ceased to exist or have gone out of aircraft building? Here the stories of deHavilland, Handley Page, Convair, Vickers, Stinson, Junkers, Airspeed, Avro, Bristol, Hawker Siddeley, as well as many smaller companies, are told in the context of the airlines that flew their products. With airline operations so confused and depressed today, this book looks back on their illustrious histories - at the efforts of people… Read More