| NORTHROP STORY,THE, 1929-1939, Allen, Richard Sanders, Schiffer, 1993, new with dj, see photo,
the formative years at Northrop, many photos, 178 pgs. | $27.50 |
| ON GREAT WHITE WINGS,
Culick & Dunmore, Airlife, 2001, f/f, see photo,
produced in anticipation of the 100th anniversary of their flight, is an in-depth examination of the Wrights' career, illustrated with more than 200 captioned photographs and drawings, including many images of their graceful machines in flight. It documents Orville and Wilbur's experimentation and their rigorous program of observation and refinement & compares the efforts of other aviators,
176 pgs.
| $12.50 |
| OUR WINGS GROW FASTER, Loening, Grover, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1935, vg (yellowing, inked inscription on fly page)/g (damaged, see scan), see photo,
pictorial history of the development of aviation,
many photos, 203 pgs.
| $36.00 |
| PACIFIC FLIGHT,
Taylor, P.G., John Hamilton, 1936, vg (embossed name)/dj (lazer copy), see photo, the 1934 flight of the Lockheed Altair (Lady Southern Cross) from Australia to San Francisco, the pilot was Kingsford-Smith.
| $26.00 |
| PASSION FOR WINGS,
Wohl, Robert, Yale University, 1994, vg, soft cover, see photo, The impact of aviation on western civilization, 1908-1918, photos & illustrations, 320 pgs.
| $10.00 |
| PASSION THAT LEFT THE GROUND, THE,
King, Stephan H., Word Associations Publisher, 2007, new, soft cover, see photo,signed by author,
Subject of this book are the machines dreamt up by Léon Levavasseur, a genius with eccentricities.
He was the man who designed the Antoinette engines & the Antoinette monoplanes, his machines were really works of art. His aircraft were featured in the movie "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines".
Levavasseur also evokes naturally the masterflyer Hubert Latham.
This book gives a fine account of pre-1914 flying, lots of illustrations (some of the l'Aérophile collection now in the Library of Congress),
158 pgs.
| $24.95 |
| PENDULUM, Carpenter, Jack, Arsdalen, Bosch & Co., 1992, new, soft cover,
see photo, signed by author, story of America's three aviation pioneers, Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright &
Glenn Curtiss, how Alexander Graham Bell & Henry Ford helped Glenn Curtiss stop the Wright brothers
from achieving their attempted monopoly of aviation, photos & illustrations, 409 pgs.
| $24.95 |
| PICTURE HISTORY OF AVIATION ON LONG ISLAND 1908-1938, Dade & Strnad, Dover Publications,
1989, new, soft cover, see photo, 302 photos depicting the glory days at Roosevelt Field & its environs, 173 pgs.
| $12.95 |
| PIONEER AIRCRAFT 1903-14,
Munson, Kenneth, Macmillan Co., vg/vg, see photo, 79 color plates, 82 pages of text covering pre-WW I aircraft.
| $15.00 |
| PIONEER AIRCRAFT EARLY AVIATION BEFORE 1914,
Jarrett, Philip, Editor, Putnam, 2002, new, see photo, covers aviation from its earliest beginnings up to the outbreak of the First World War, begins with the first theories &
experiments in flight, including the attempts to fly by jumping from towers & the experiences of the lighter-than-air flight using balloons, analyses the experiments with kites
and models in an attempt to understand the principles of aerodynamics, all this leads up to the first successful powered flights, culminating in the achievement of the Wright Brothers,
whose flight at Kitty Hawk represented the first successful powered, sustained, and controlled flight. The remainder of the book covers the creation of an aeroplane industry – putting aeroplanes to work,
refining airframes and engines, adapting aeroplanes to fly from water, and understanding safety issues.
photos, line drawings, 255 pgs. | $29.95 |
| PIONEER AVIATORS OF THE WORLD,
Matthews, Hart, McFarland, 2003, new (issued w/o dj),see photo,
the first pilots from each of a hundred countries have their stories told in this work,
a brief biography & description of his or her attempts to fly are provided for each early aviator,
except in a very few cases where facts are hard to find, photos, 208 pgs.
| $39.95 |
| PROGRESS IN FLYING MACHINES, Chanute, Octave, Lorenz & Herweg, 1976, f/f
see photo, Chanute experimented with over 2,000 glider flights in the 1890s, design and testing of his
gliders, & interest in problems of flight control, equilibrium resulted in the accumulation of a
valuable data that proved crucial in the early designs of the Wright brothers, illustrations, 308 pgs.
| $35.00 |
RACE TO THE SKY,
Goddard, Stephen, McFarland, 2003, new (issued w/o dust jacket), see photo,
Everyone knows that the Wright brothers were the first to fly, but few people know that they were engaged in a David and Goliath struggle with their own Federal Government. President McKinley’s administration decided to dedicate an unprecedented amount of money and to tap such men as Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and Samuel P. Langley to make sure that the first flyers would be American. The Wright brothers refused financial support from the government for fear of the strings that might be attached to it, and resolved to go it alone.
This book tells the story of the struggle between the Wright brothers and the Federal Government, and the raw ambition, high ideals, greed, and cloak and dagger tactics of each side. By 1903, the Federal venture was in its seventh year and the Wright brothers had been working nights and weekends often in secret for four years, but everything came to a head in eight tense days in December when the battle—and the fame and fortune that would follow—was decided and the Wright brothers emerged victorious, photos, notes, bibliography, 323 pgs.
| $39.95 |
| RAF IN CAMERA, THE, 1903-1939, Nesbit, Roy, Sutton,
1995, f/f, collection of photos from government sources,
many previously unpublished, 182 pgs. | $25.00 |
| REBIRTH OF EUROPEAN AVIATION 1902-1908, Gibbs-Smith, Charles, HMSO, 1974, vg/vg, see photo, history of aviation is the extent of the Wright Brothers' influence on the early pioneers in Europe. What was really happening to the development of the aeroplane between the Wrights' first flight in 1903 and the first flights in Europe nearly four years later? illustrations & photos, 387 pgs.
| $29.95 |
| RECORD FLIGHTS,
Chamberlin, Clarence, Dorrance, 1928, vg (cover shows signs of wear, spine ends are frayed, back cover has a spot
where something was spilled), inscribed by author "To Abe Heller in appreciatioon of your assistance in arranging my films.
Clarence D. Chamberlin, New York, Dec. 1st 1930", see photo, pioneering aviator - the first to cross the Atlantic with a passenger,
two weeks after Lindberghs solo flight - and later aviation company executive tells the story of his pre-WWI, military, and
post war flying exploits and the records he set, photos, 286 pgs.
| $150.00 |
| REVOLUTION IN THE SKY Allen, Richard Saunders, Stephen Greene Press, 1964, vg/vg,
see photo, Lockheeds of aviation's golden age, 1927 through 1937 - design of the single engine Lockheeds, photos, drawings & cutaway, 232 pgs. | $20.00 |
| ROMANCE OF AIRCRAFT,
Smith, Laurence, Frederick A. Stokes, 1919, vg (pictorial cover), see photo, covers balloons, dirigibles, heavier than air, priniciples of airplane, WW I airplanes, training of an aviator,
future of the airplane, photos & drawings, 264 pgs.
| $20.00 |
