Search Results: History of Aviation from The Owl at the Bridge

Maxwell, AL : Air University Press, [1998]. Soft Cover. xi, 86 p. : illus. ; index, 24 cm. "December, 1998." A history of air warfare in military planning throgh recent writing by Colonel John A. Warden, 1943- . Bibliography p.81-84.Stock# 40,997. Vg/ paper.

Aviation (lots 1-16); Wright Brothers (17-39); Rocketry & Unmanned Exploration (40-51); Soviet & Russian Hardware, Gear, & Models (52-67); American Gear, Hardware & Models(68-81); Project Mercury (82-95); Project Gemini (96-115); Apollo Program through Apollo 10 (116-127); Apollo 11 (128-146); Apollo 12-17 (147-206); ShuttleMissions (207-213). Auction catalog: 75 pages, index, color illus.; 26.5 cm. Color pictorial paper covers; VG+. Stock#ofc0199.

Reynal & Hitchcock, NY [c1942]. Hard Cover. Très philosophique. 255 pages, plates, illustrated endpapers & flyleaves, 22 cm.; blue cloth boards stamped in gold; no dj; ex library, minor wear; good+. Stock#32985.

Bookseller catalogue; 282 items, illustrated; stapled in blue pictoial paper covers; Very Good. Stock#ofc0291.

Includes A Collection of Globes (lots 400-445); a Celestial Atlas; Scientific Instruments (lots 447455; Houdon's L'écorché in bronze; Books & Manuscripts (lots 457-485); Aviation (lots 486-511); Space History (lots 512-592); Technology (lots593-658)recorders, cipher machines, computers, robots). 258 lots, index; color illustrations; glossy paper covers; fine. Stock#ofc0493.

N.Y. Dover [1988]. Soft Cover. vii, 87p. 76 photographs, 28 cm. Written by Orville in 1920 for a legal action, it was thought lost until discovered by Fred C. Kelly (1882-1959) who published it with additional text in 1953. Alan Weissman has added still more information for the Dover edition. Stock# 32,099x. Fine, new from publisher/ softcover.

Washington : History and Museums Division, U.S. Marine Corps : the Supt. of. Soft Cover. vii, 106 p., illus., index, 27 cm. During the inter war years, Marine Corps pilots performed at air shows to assert the Corps need for aviation support for its amphibian role. Stock# 40,099. Vg/ paper.

Simon Finch Rare Books Limited, London, 2000. Soft Cover. 125 books on the history of science including mathematics, mechanics, aviation, the occult, acoustics, navigation, astronomy. 76 p., illus., index, 23.5 cm.; stiff-paper covers; VG+. 31996.

A wartime book. Flying in the Pacific in 1942, Rickenbacker's pilot missed their island destination and crashed. For three weeks the eight men drifted in life rafts until rescued. "Everything you can pack into twenty-one days and three rubber rafts." Book club edition; Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#27116/h.

New York : HarperCollins, c2002.. Hard Cover. viii, 258 p., [8] p. of plates, illus., index, 23.5 cm. Glenn Hammond Curtiss, 1878-1930, developed a number of aviation inventions. Stock# 40,002. Fine/ dj fine, Bibliography (p. [235]-243)

NY, Putnam's Sons / Knickerbocker Press, 1927. Lindbergh's transatlantic flight on 20-21 May took 33-1/2 hours. This book was published in July; this is the "second impression." Hard Cover. 318 pages, 48 illus.; 21 cm. Vg / no dj. Stock#NS0324.