AIR POWER AND THE FIGHT FOR KHE SANH, Nalty, Bernard, Office of Air Force History, 1973,
vg (soft cover), in 1968, U.S. Ground Forces were at Khe Sanh to stem the Viet Cong flow of men and equipment down
Hwy 9. Air power was used to protect & provision the U.S. garrison at Khe Sanh
, 134 pgs.
| $6.00 |
| CLOSET CASES, Mertens, Randy, Pilot News Press, 1980, vg/vg (hard cover),
46 post war planes that did not make it, includes Waco Aristocraft, Vultee Flying Car, Little Dipper and others, photos, 110 pgs.
| $35.00 |
| COURAGE, SACRIFICE, DEVOTION, Gillespie, Noel, Infinity, 2005, new, (soft cover, corner bent on back cover), see photo,
history of Navy Squadron VXE-6 in the Anarctic, 1955 to 1999, photos, 513 pgs.
| $25.00 |
| EJECT!, Tuttle, Jim, MBI, 2002, f/f, see photo,
complete history of U.S. aircraft escape systems, parachutes, ejection seats, photos & drawings,
256 pgs. | $7.80 |
| EVERY MAN A TIGER - 731st USAF NIGHT INTRUDERS OVER KOREA, Blunk, Chester, Sunflower Press, 1987, new, soft cover, see photo, tactics & weapons, 10,000 sorties, appendix lists officers & airman, photos, 113 pgs. | $40.00 |
| F-15 EAGLE ENGAGED, Davies & Didly, 2007, new with dust jacket,
see photo, most recognizable military jet fighter in the skies today
& is undoubtedly the most successful jet fighter of all time, having never been shot down in combat.
Flown not only by the US Air Force but by the air forces of Israel, Saudi Arabi & Japan,
includes a vast array of sources including combat records, technical documents, unpublished first-hand
accounts from the pilots, over 100 breathtaking color photographs & detailed technical information, 286 pgs.
| $30.00 |
| FIGHTER COMBAT IN THE JET AGE,
Isby, David, Harper Collins, 1997, vg (no dust jacket),
a new generation of jet airplanes fought over Korea & in the Middle East, by the 1960s,
more powerful engines were allied to air to air missiles & effective airborne radar,
describes the fighters & weapons developed during the Cold war, illustrated with color &
duotone photography, 192 pgs.
| $6.50 |
| GRUMMAN F8F BEARCAT Meyer & Ginter, Naval Fighters #80, 2008, new, soft cover,
see photo,examines the design, development, testing & operational service of the Grumman F8F Bearcat (the holder of the world speed record for a piston engine aircraft), which just missed the war with Japan but which became the U.S. Navy's predominate shipboard fighter from 1946-50,
detailed cutaway illustrations, close-ups of the cockpit, the powerful Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine, armament, squadron insignia, and much more. 216 pages
| $29.95 |
| HOT SHOTS, edited by Ethell-Chancy & Forstchen, William Morrow, 2000, new, see photo,
oral history of Air Force Combat Pilots of Korean War, including Blesse and Fische, photos, 240 pgs.
| $8.50 |
| I.A.S. - ITALIAN AEROSPACE SHOW,
vg (soft cover), see photo, issued in conjunction with the Italian Aerospace Show aboard the USS
Intrepid, NYC, April, 1990, many photos depicting Italian aviation history, 287 pgs.
| $20.00 |
| JACK NORTHROP AND THE FLYING WING, Coleman, Ted, Paragon, 1988, vg/vg,
see photo, first hand report of the pioneering design of the Stealth Bomber,
photos, 284 pgs.
| $13.50 |
| JANE'S SPACEFLIGHT DIRECTORY, Turnill, Reginald, Jane's Publishing, 1985, vg/vg,
comprehensive guide of world's space powers, photos, 311 pgs.
| $10.00 |
| LAST LANC', THE, Kilvington, Patrick, Boolarong Publication, 1982, f/f, see photo, on April 25, 1965, Avro Lancaster NX 611-AT, the time the last flying Lancaster left Australia for a flight to England. The book describes that flight and the subsequent adventures of NX 611, until becoming a Gate Guard at RAF Scampton. An appendix lists all 7,377 Lancasters built and their ultimate fate. As a post script, NX 611 exixsts today at East Kirkby where it taxis down the tarmac giving rides to museum vistors, photos, 162 pgs.
| $38.50 |
| MiG ALLEY TO MU GHIA PASS, Foster & Vaughan, McFarland & Co., 2001, new, soft cover,
see photo, signed by Foster, memoirs of
a nine victory ace in Korea, photos, 151 pgs.
| $40.00 |
| PERILOUS MISSIONS, Leary, William, Smithsonian, 2002, new, soft cover,
Civil Air Transport & CIA covert operations in Asia, photos & map, 281 pgs.
| $12.50 |
| REQUEST FOR HOMOLOGATION OF TWO WORLD RECORDS, Shepard, Alan, National Aeronautic Assoc., 1961, vg, binder, signed by Jacquelin Cochran, who was President of the NAA at the time,
letters & forms describing a flight by Alan Shepard, aboard Mercury 7 (May, 1961) claiming records of altitute and greatest weight lifted in a sub-orbital flight. Included
are copies of letters from McDonnell Aircraft Corp., FAI, NASA & NAA. This was put together in book from by NAA.
| $65.00 |
| SPACE, Chaikin, Andrew, Carlton, 2002, f/f (oversized), all color photographs (over 300 images),
256 pgs.
| $12.00 |
| SR-71 REVEALED, Graham, Richard, MBI, 1996, fine (soft cover), see photo, inscribed to previous owner by author,
author spent 7 years as an SR-71 pilot and later as an instructor, director of the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, photos, 224 pgs.
| $15.00 |
| SUPERSONIC FLIGHT SINCE 1935, Smith, Richard, self-published, 1985, vg (spiral bound, soft cover),
inscribed to previous owner by author, many line drawings, 25 pgs.
| $20.00 |
| 24th FORWARD, Koyosha Printing Co., 1953, vg (cover rubbed & corners bumped), see photo, pictorial history of the Victory Division (Infantry)
in Korea, unpaged.
| $75.00 |
| U.S. ARMY AIRCRAFT SINCE 1947, Harding, Stephen, Speciality Press, 1990, vg/vg
comprehensive 124 types of helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft & experimental flying machines
used by the U.S Army since 1917, each aircraft is described in detail including serials,
markings, operational history, photos, 273 pgs.
| $15.00 |
