The Dream Machine; The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey
by Whittle, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1416562958
- ISBN 13
- 9781416562955
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster 978-1-4165-6295-5 [978-1-4165-6295-5] 2010, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 454pp. Very good in very good plus dust jacket. Photographs, sources, notes, index. A remainder mark on the top edge. "When the marines decided to buy a helicopter-airplane hybrid 'tiltrotor' called the V-22 Osprey, they saw it as their dream machine. The tiltrotor was the aviation equivalent of finding the Northwest Passage: an aircraft able to take off, land, and hover with the agility of a helicopter yet fly as far and as far as an airplane". Book about Aviation Disasters, Convertiplanes, Tiltrotor & V-22 Osprey. Locale: United States. (Military, Aviation--Military, Marine Corps, Marines, Transport Aircraft).
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-434) and index.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 154810
- Title
- The Dream Machine; The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey
- Author
- Whittle, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1416562958
- ISBN 13
- 9781416562955
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster 978-1-4165-6295-5
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2010
- LCCN
- 2009026071
- Keywords
- Military, Aviation--Military, Marine Corps, Marines, Transport Aircraft
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military;
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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