Search Results: Aeronautics / Astronautics from S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)

Santa Clara, CA: De Saisset Art Gallery and Museum. Very Good+. 1972. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Other. B&W Illustrations; This is a set of twelve black and white photographs in a cardstock folder. The set is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The cardstock folder has noticeable toning / sunning to the front cover, and several spots of discoloration / foxing to the rear cover. All twelve plates are included and are in Fine condition. "The 12 Photographers represented in this exhibit formed as a group in May, 1972, to exchange points of view on contemporaray attitudes oabout photography..." (from the blurb) .

New York, NY: Model Aeronautics Publications. Very Good+. 1938. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and wear. There is a small nick to the bottom front spine joint. The text pages are clean and bright. "Frank and his brother John started building model airplanes in 1926. The following year and five years after Frank’s arrival in New York City, Charles Lindbergh landed at Curtiss Field outside Minneola on Long Island. Richard Byrd and Clarence Chamberlin were waiting to make their Paris flight. Excitement was high. Frank did not get to Roosevelt Field the morning of the takeoff. However, he was encouraged to begin his life in aeronautics. He gained knowledge reading American Boy magazine. American Boy incorporated model airplane design news and contest results of the… Read More

St. Louis, MO: Spirit of St. Louis Aviation Award, Inc.. Very Good+. 1977. Other. B&W Illustrations; This is a publicity packet for the 50th anniversary of the flight of the Spirit of St. Louis. The folder is in Very Good+ condition, though it does have several wrinkled and some nicking and rubbing to the spine and corners. Included are several stapled fact sheets with background on the anniversary and the original flight. Also included are a group of publicity photos for use by newspapers, etc. Featuring Charles Lindbergh or the plane Spirit of St. Louis. "Lindbergh took off in the Spirit from Roosevelt Airfield, Garden City, New York, and landed 33 hours, 30 minutes later at Aéroport Le Bourget in Paris, France, a distance of approximately 3,600 miles (5,800 km). One of the best-known aircraft in the world, the Spirit was built by Ryan Airlines in San Diego, California, owned and operated at the time by Benjamin Franklin Mahoney, who had purchased it from its founder, T.… Read More

San Francisco, CA: United Airlines. Very Good+. 1982. Other. B&W Illustrations; This is a group of printed sheets (with print on both sides of the page) , stapled at the top corners of the pages. Each page also includes three hole punches, for the pages to be added to a binder. The pages are in clean, mostly bright condition. This is a section of a study guide / training manual for 727 airplanes. .

Boeing Company. Very Good+. 1982. 1st Printing. 3-ring binder. B&W Illustrations; This is a three ring binder with individual unbound pages, and dividers for separate sections, including: Manuals, General Description & Structures, Digital / Micro Porcessor System & Haley. The text pages are in clean, bright condition. "The manuals have been prepared by the Boeing Commercial Airplane Company in accordance with the Air Transport Association of American Specification Number 100...The subject matter in the manuals is divided into chapters and groups of chapters to facilitate the location of information e using personnel . " (from the introduction) .

Carrollton, TX: Squadron/Signal Publications. Very Good. 1990. Trade Edition. Paperback. 089747239X . B&W Illustrations & Photographs; This is an oblong paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and wear to the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "The first YAT-37D flew in October 1964, followed a year later by the second prototype. The second prototype had four stores pylons under each wing, rather than three, and the first prototype was upgraded to this configuration as well. Test results were good, but USAF interest in counter-insurgency (COIN) aircraft had faded for the moment. The program went into limbo for a time, with the second prototype "put out to pasture" at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. " (from Wikipedia) .

New York, NY: Aeronautical Digest Publishing Corp.. Very Good. 1939. Magazine. B&W Photographs and Illustrations; This is an oversized magazine. The magazine is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The magazine cover has some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and covers. There is a tear to the bottom rear spine joint. The text pages are clean and bright, with the exception of a blue ink spot to the bottom edge of the text block that has bled upwards a bit. Included are: Existing Facilities for Aircraft Production by Cy Coldwell, Potential Sales in Private Aircraft Radio by Henry W. Roberts, Curtiss-Wright CW-21, The Fairchild 24 for 1939, Flight Tests of the BOeing 307 Stratoliner, and more. .

New York, NY: Aeronautical Digest Publishing Corp.. Very Good. 1940. Magazine. B&W Photographs and Illustrations; This is an oversized magazine. The magazine is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The magazine covers have some light bumping, rubbing and edge wear, along with a couple of small tears and chips to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. Included are: The Defense of American, Part II by Cy Caldwell, Possibilities of Large Boats for National Defense, Civil Airways of the United States, Terminal Traffic - Airlines Problem Number One by Capt. Fred Smith, CAB Radio Program for 1941, the Cub FLying Club Plan, Engineering for the Higher Altitudes by Wello E. Beall, The Monouple Zephyr, and more. Notably, there is a full page ad for Wendall Wilkie for President. "Aero Digest was a professional periodical covering the aircraft industry and the profession of flying. It began publication in 1921, originally appearing as the Official… Read More

El Segundo, CA: Sentinel Space Technology Laboratories, Inc.. Very Good+. 1967. Brochure. B&W Illustrations; This is a four page (two sheet) brochure from Sentinel Space Tech. Labs. Featuring the stages of the Able Program. The brochure is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The brochure is in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning creasing to the corners and there is a previous owner's ink stamped name and address on the top front corner. "Sometime in Mid-1966 NASA asked several companies, including Goodyear, Westinghouse, Boeing & Grumman to work on a secret project designated as Project ABLE. The objective of the project was to design a Saturn V launched orbiting solar reflector that could be used to provide full-moon equivalent illumination and which could be ready by late 1968/early 1969 (eg around the time of the Apollo 8 launch). Goodyear designed a 2100ft (700m) diameter double-sided mirror that was be placed into a stable… Read More

New York: Aviation and Aircraft Journal. Very Good+. 1921. Ephemera. Included in the envelope (envelope letterhead is from the Gardner-Moffat Co. , Inc. ) is a duplicated letter from Major Lester D. Gardner the president of the journal advertising the new journal, with price incentives and information on editors and contributors. Also included are two off-print articles from the new Journal: entitled: What $598,090,781 Bought in War Aviation, and, Cost of War Aviation Only $598,090,781. "Lester D. Gardner, who would become known as one of aviation’s elder statesmen, concluded both needs could be met at once. He elected to publish Aviation and Aeronautical Engineering, a journal of technical record that would adhere to rigorous standards of scholarship. Gardner was well placed to do this. He had taken a degree in engineering administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1898 and had studied administrative law for a year at Columbia University in 1900. He… Read More

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc.. Very Good+. 1943. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping, rubbing and beginning fraying to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. Both endpapers have some light toning. There are two previous owner's inked names (gift notations) on the front endpaper. "Aerial photography is the taking of photographs of the ground from an elevated/direct-down position. Usually the camera is not supported by a ground-based structure. Platforms for aerial photography include fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or "drones") , balloons, blimps and dirigibles, rockets, pigeons, kites, parachutes, stand-alone telescoping and vehicle-mounted poles. Mounted cameras may be triggered remotely or… Read More

Fallbrook, CA: Aero Publishers, Inc.. Very Good-. 1971. Paperback. 0816803129 . B&W Illustrations; This is a larger than trade sized paperback book. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book is in generally clean condition. There is some cracking to the spine of the book, and generalized rubbing to the book covers. The last several pages of the book have some wrinkling, as is the rear book cover. .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1978. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has some beginning edge wear and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. . The book includes a foreword by Air Commodore J. De M. Severne. "As the sport of competetive aerobatics becomes more popular, it becomes apparent that to date there has been no complete work published on this pure aspect of flight, apart from a few booklets produced from time to time." .

New York, NY: St. Martin's Press. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1980. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0312007590 . B&W Illustrations; This book is in Ver y Good- condition and has a Fair dust jacket. The book covers have edge wear, rubbing and some beginning fraying. The rear book cover has some spots of whitish discoloration to the bottom edge. The text pages are clean and bright. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is in unfortunate shape, with large chips, heavy edge wear and rubbing, nicks, tears and just general use. "In 1993 he (Charles Robert O'Dell) used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover in the Orion Nebula a new class of objects, the proplyds, providing clear-cut proof that ordinary star formation includes disks from which planets can form. Since then, his research has concentrated on how these objects are created and interact with their natal material. An avid aviator, he participated as a pilot on the USA team in the FAI World… Read More

Dunellen, N. J.: National Aeronautics Council, Inc.. Very Good-. 1944. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized paperback book. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have edge wear, rubbing, several creases, and there is tearing to the bottom edges of both front and rear spine joints. The text pages are clean and bright. .

Dunellen, N. J.: National Aeronautics Council, Inc.. Very Good. 1940. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is a set of 54 weekly periodicals comprising the 1028 lectures on aviation, broken down into weekly issues. The periodicals vary from Very Good to Very Good - condition, and were issued without dust jackets. The book covers have edge wear, edge tears, chips, and general bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. Taken as a whole, the lectures and information could help prospective pilots become actual working pilots. The lectures are broken down into four sections: Principles and Practice of Flying, Meteorology, Navigation and Instruments, Airplanes, Engines and Accessories, Operattions, and, Communications and General Applications. Complete sets of this periodical are somewhat scarce. .

Washington D. C.: National Aeronautics Council, Inc.. Very Good. 1942. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized paperback book with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing and edge wear. There are ink markings to the front cover and a previous owner's inked name on the rear cover. There is tearing to the end of both top and bottom edges of the spine. There is a previous owner's name and address on the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright. .

Washington D. C.: National Aeronautics Council, Inc.. Very Good-. 1942. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized paperback book with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good- condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing and edge wear. There are ink markings to the front cover and a previous owner's inked name on the rear cover. There is a three inch tear to the bottom spine end of the book cover. There is a previous owner's name and address on the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright. .

New York: Cupples & Leon Company. Very Good+. 1915. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the scarce dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping. Ther are two spots of fading / discoloration to the spine of the book and several spots of ground-in dirt to the covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "The Zerbe Sextuplane was an unconventional early aircraft designed by James Slough Zerbe around 1908. The aircraft mounted six wings, heavily staggered, above a framework on which the pilot sat; propulsion was provided by a single propeller mounted in a tractor configuration. No record survives of the Sextuplane's performance." .

New York: Robert M. McBride & Co.. Very Good. 1917. 4th Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and fraying. There are some spots of light discoloration to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inks name and address on both the front endpaper and on the front pastedown page. The bottom edge block has the previous owner's inked name and book number. The text pages are clean and bright. "Captain Horatio Claude Barber (1875–1964) was an early British aviation pioneer and First World War flight instructor. In 1911 he flew the first cargo flight in Britain, transporting electric light bulbs from Shoreham to Hove. He was also the first person in Great Britain to gain an aeronautical degree." "Barber… Read More