Search Results: Air & Space from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Washington, D. C: United States Government Printing Office, 1981 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Revision date 1979. Perfect bound in green & white printed paper wraps, iii, 342, iii, 71 pp, [14] ff, many figures, glossary, index, multiple-choice tests and answer sheets. Edges foxed, else VG. Manual on the fundamentals of naval aviation and the duties of the Airman. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. Later printing. Wraps. VG-/No dj. 26 X 20 cm.

New York & London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1927 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, gilt-on-black titles on spine, xi, 598 pp, 21 tables, 328 figures including charts, line drawings, and b & w photos, index. Somewhat musty, fore-edge foxed, otherwise very good, extremities rubbed. Early textbook on aerodynamics for the airplane designer. Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 8 oz.). 3rd ptg. . G-/No dj. 23½ X 15½ cm.

New York & London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1943 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Light blue cloth, blue titles on spine, viii, 128 pp, 18 tables, 48 figures, 41 gremlin cartoons, index. Extremities rubbed, scattered pencil notes & underlining. Contents: standard atmosphere; engine-control procedures; power ratings & engine-operation procedures; power control; operating weights & speeds; take-off & landing distances; rates of climb; long-range flight technique; flight planning; altimeter settings; navigational computers; airplane loading; conversion charts. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/No dj. Illus. by Dorman H. Smith. 21½ X 14 cm.

Washington, D. C: United States Government Printing Office, 1963 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in pale blue wraps with titles & decorations in dark blue, xv, 346 pp. Covers sunned about the edges. Contents consist mainly of tables of statistics including departures, enplanements, originations (enplanements minus stopovers & transfers), tons of freight in various categories for each combination of carrier and airport, departures by carrier, airport, and type of plane, as well as summaries. A snapshot of airline operations at a time when the term "jet set" was current. Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 8 oz.). Wraps. VG/No dj. 23½ X 30 cm (oblong).

London: Putnam & Company, Ltd., 1970 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue cloth-textured boards, gilt titles on spine, x, 206 pp, numerous photos, drawings, index. Book has a minor manufacturing defect: binder's glue seems to have oozed from under pastedowns onto fore-edge; this has been removed, but small spots remain on fore-edge of free endpapers and last few leaves; else fine. DJ introductory price is clipped, but regular British price and an American price sticker still remain, else fine; in Brodart cover. The Airspeed company was founded in the inauspicious year of 1931, managed to survive the slump building civil aircraft until switching over to war production during WW2, and finally was merged into de Havilland in 1951. This is a complete catalogue of the company's production as well as its incomplete development projects. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 22½ X 14 cm.

New York: Random House, 1985 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Burnt orange boards, brown cloth spine, gilt titles & decoration, xv, 160 pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, 5 maps, facsimile documents in appendices, index. DJ has 2 cm tear with creasing and mended with tape on reverse, otherwise very little wear; in Brodart archival cover. Capt. Loomis discovered an old airplane wreck while serving in the Marshall Islands in 1952. After much research in the intervening years, as presented in this book, he was convinced that the plane was Amelia Earhart's lost Lockheed Electra. Sources include interviews with Marshall Islanders who were present at the time of the crash as well as formerly classified Japanese and U. S. government documents. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/G+. 24 X 16 cm.

London: Putnam & Company, Ltd., 1973 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue cloth-textured boards, gilt titles on spine, vii, 390 pp, numerous photos, drawings, index. DJ introductory price is clipped, but regular British price is still present under an American price sticker, else fine; in Brodart cover. Armstrong-Whitworth was already a successful shipbuilding and armaments company when it began producing aircraft in 1913. The company produced military aircraft and the best of Britain's airships in WW1, and thereafter produced a mix of civilian and military aircraft. After various amalgamations, it survived as part of Hawker-Siddeley until all divisional identities were elminated in 1965. This is a complete catalogue of the company's production as well as its incomplete development projects. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Near Fine. 22½ X 14 cm.

Stockholm: Albert Bonniers, 1912 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Rebound by library in maroon cloth, [iv], 95 pp, 114 pictures (mainly b & w photos). Cloth worn & soiled, usual library markings including "Withdrawn" stamps. Swedish-language history of flight through 1911 by an early Swedish aviator. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). First Edition. . G/No dj. 23 X 16 cm.

New York & London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1945 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Maroon cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, vii, 155 pp, many figures including photos & line drawings. Top corners heavily bumped, otherwise only slight wear to corners & spine ends, owner's name on fpd. DJ has a 5-cm stain and a 7-cm tear on front panel, chips up to 7 cm in white space; in Brodart archival cover. Contains instructions for 68 simple demonstrations that illustrate principles of aviation including aerodynamics, power plants, meteorology, navigation, and communications. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). First Edition. . VG/G. 28½ X 22½ cm.

New York: St. Martin's / Marek, 1985 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue boards, red cloth spine with foil titles, dark blue endpapers, ix, 482 pp, 4 ff b & w photo plates, index. DJ has small tears (a few mm up to 1 cm) to top edge and a 3 cm square wrinkly area near bottom of rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, "Eagle is the definitive, action-filled history of the airline that became one of the world's recognized leaders in air transport...." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/VG. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, dark blue cloth spine with gilt titles, pictorial endpapers, xv, 199 pp, 8 ff plates of which 4 are in color on one side including frontispiece, 18 figures, index. BOMC news laid in (dated 1952). Edges rubbed & faded, half-inch tear to top edge of one plate. Readable popular-level explanation of mid-century views on the future of space travel. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. BOMC. . G+/No dj. 21 X 14½ cm.

Washington, D. C: Government Printing Office, 1947 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Stapled through fold, printed in black, brown & blue throughout, pictorial covers, v, 41 pp, 23 figures in addition to 8 chapter headpieces. Corners bumped & creased, otherwise fine. Explains fundamental facts about flying small airplanes in nontechnical terms and with many illustrations; intended as a supplement or preliminary to flight instruction. Contents: airplane flight; stalls & spins; airplane structure; airplane engines; flying the plane; airport traffic; seaplanes; safety in flight. Shipping weight 8 oz.. Pamphlet. VG/No dj. 19½ X 26 cm (oblong).

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth, gilt titles on spine & blind device on front board, xiii, 626 pp, 16 ff b & w photo plates, index. Corners bumped, extremities rubbed, boards fingerprinted & somewhat scuffed, internally clean. General Henry H. Arnold, chief of the Army Air Corps during World War 2, was involved in Army aviation from its earliest days. This book contains reminiscences of his training by the Wright brothers in Dayton (1911), experiences in the Philippines and Panama, and as a staff officer in Washington during WW1 when the Air Corps was first formed as a fighting, rather than an experimental unit. The final two thirds of the book are about the role of the Air Corps (and later the Air Force) in WW2. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . G+/No dj. 21½ X 15 cm.

London, New York, Paris & Los Angeles: Pergamon Press, 1958 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue cloth, bronze & bronze on red titles, xx, 508 pp, color frontispiece, 238 figures including those on about 32 ff plates not in pagination, index. Few small spots on edges, shaken rear hinge reglued with acid-free PVA. Reports on plans for the IGY rocket program in Australia, Canada, France, Japan, USSR, UK, and USA, and the IGY earth satellite program, where launches were confined to the USSR and the United States. Two appendices describe early results of the satellite programs. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/No dj. 25 X 19½ cm.

Washington, D. C: United States Government Printing Office, 1982 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Revision date 1979. Stapled through fold in green & white printed paper wraps, chapters individually paginated (about 90 pp in all), many figures, glossary, index. Edges foxed, else VG. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Later printing. Wraps. VG-/No dj. 28 X 21 cm.

Washington, D. C: United States Government Printing Office, 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Perfect bound in green & white printed paper wraps, chapters individually paginated (about 175 pp in all), many figures, glossary, index. Edges foxed, else VG. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Wraps. VG-/No dj. 28 X 21 cm.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1987 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, black cloth spine with blue foil titles, red endpapers, [viii], 312 pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, notes, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. In the wake of the 1986 Challenger disaster, "Trento interviewed every single administrator of NASA as well as more than seventy of its key officials, scientists, and major players in government, industry, and the Pentagon. ... Prescription for Disaster reveals: how NASA, a uniquely successful agency that had resisted pressure for premature manned flights and placed the safety of astronauts above all other considerations, became tragically changed under a series of administrators and people in government, the military, and industry who forced through a series of fatal compromises for the worst possible reasons; how solid-booster propulsion was chosen over the vehement objections of men like Werner von Braun and the other… Read More

New York: Baker, Voorhis & Co., 1932 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full black cloth, gilt titles on spine, attractively printed on watermarked laid paper, [iv], 28, III pp. Paper clip mark on title page & adjacent pages, otherwise fine. Brief synopsis of law relating to aviation as taught to students at the University of Alabama Law School in October, 1931. Ewing was chairman of the committee on air law at the Bar Association of New York and the New York State Bar Association. Shipping weight 1 lb.. First Edition. . Near Fine/No dj. 22½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Mustard boards, blue cloth spine with gilt titles, xvii, 462 pp, bibliography, index. Slight shelf wear. DJ worn at spine ends & corners; in protective cover. History of the German V-2 rocket program, and how the V-2 developers were absorbed into the postwar American and Russian rocket programs. The narrative is based in part on interviews with numerous participants and access to previously classified government archives. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/VG. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: The Viking Press, 1947 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Orange cloth, black titles on spine, viii, 374 pp, 4 ff b & w photo plates, 49 figures, bibliography, index. Ex-library from a defunct institution. A 4 mm tear to head of spine, else VG+, lightly rubbed. DJ extremities rubbed and slightly chipped; book & DJ covered with thick mylar. Willy Ley's Rockets first appeared in 1944, was greatly enlarged twice under new titles--the present work, of which this is the first printing, in 1947 and Rockets, Missiles and Space Travel, in 1951--and went through intermediate and subsequent minor revisions and expansions, all on account of rapid developments in rocketry in the postwar period. Ley traces the development of rockets from early fireworks and war rockets, through the 20th century experiments such as those of Robert Goddard and Hermann Oberth, and into the era of modern rocketry beginning with the German V-2 during the Second World… Read More