The dramatic story of the American mission to shoot Japans greatest admiral out of the sky. New 50th Anniversary edition.Size: 6" x 9" 240 pages, 8 pages of photos. Bright, clean, unmarked copy in a similar, unclipped dustjacket. Still fresh and about 'as new'. Weight, 600g. View More...
Stories of early Bush Flyers in Canada, particularly in the Far North. xii, 225 pages, photo illustrations, portraits, endpaper maps; 21 cm. Book is bright, clean and unmarked, pages white and clean. Binding is tight and square, no wear to the blue cloth. The unclipped dustjacket is bright and clean but showing some edge wear and wear to the extremities of the spine. NB - Postal Rates shown by ABE are often incorrect and are vague estimates NOT guaranteed rates. We use Canada Post, the United States Postal Service and Asendia and try to offer very competitive postal charges - based on actua... View More...
Book documents the growth of military airpower in Canada from WWI through WWII. Includes bios of a great many Canadian pilots. 100pp, index, illustrations. Bright, clean interior, unmarked. Tight, stapled binding. Bright, clean wrappers with only minor signs of use. Weight, 324pp. View More...
A pilot's account of his career flying on the British Columbia Coast. First published in Canada in 1968 under the title, 'The Pathless Way'. This British edition is undated but circa the early 1970s. 193pp, photo illustrated, epilogue, endpaper maps. Bright, clean, unmarked copy with a sound binding. Dustjacket has very slight top-edge wear but is close to Fine. Weight, 432g. View More...
Popular magazine for Model Airplane enthusiats of the 1930s - 'The only magazine devoted exclusively to Experimental Aviation'. This issue features wonderful cover of the 'Bellanca London Melbourne Racer'. Build a Fokker D-8 . Many more features. 48pp, photo illustrated, plans, diagrams. Interior is clean and unmarked, pages very slightly tanned. Binding is sound, staples rusty. A few light pencil erasures to front wrapper, barely visible. Very light wear to edges. A used copy but fundamentally sound, priced to reflect condition. Numerous other issues. available. Some scans. Weight, 120g. View More...
Popular magazine for Model Airplane enthusiats of the 1930s - 'The only magazine devoted exclusively to Experimental Aviation'. This issue features wonderful cover of 'The Russian Fighter D-1'. Build a Curtis YO-40B - Albatros Fighters - Boeing US Army PW-9. Many more features. 48pp, photo illustrated, plans, diagrams. Interior is clean and unmarked, pages very slightly tanned. Binding is sound, staples rusty. Light pencil erasures to front wrapper, barely visible. Very light wear to edges. A used copy but fundamentally sound, priced to reflect condition. Numerous other issues. available. Som... View More...
Popular magazine for Model Airplane enthusiats of the 1930s - 'The only magazine devoted exclusively to Experimental Aviation'. This issue features wonderful cover of 'Lindbergh's Lockheed Sirius'. How to build the Martin Bomber - Development of Fokker Fighters. Many more features. 48pp, photo illustrated, plans, diagrams. Interior is clean and unmarked, pages very slightly tanned. Binding is sound, staples rusty. Light pencil erasures to front wrapper, barely visible. Light wear to edges. A well used copy but fundamentally sound, priced to reflect condition. Numerous other issues. available.... View More...
Popular magazine for Model Airplane enthusiats of the 1930s - 'The only magazine devoted exclusively to Experimental Aviation'. This issue features wonderful cover of the 'Kinner Envoy'. Build a Kinner Envoy - Build a US Army A-12 Attack Glider - Gas Models . Many more features. 48pp, photo illustrated, plans, diagrams. Interior is clean and unmarked, pages very slightly tanned. Binding is sound, staples rusty. A few light pencil erasures to front wrapper, barely visible. Very light wear to edges. A used copy but fundamentally sound, priced to reflect condition. Numerous other issues. availa... View More...
Issue of Life magazine featuring The LEM [Lunar Model - Space Craft], on the front cover - article inside. Full contents are available on request. 92pp. A very bright, clean copy with unmarked covers, and no address label. Tiny top corner crease. Attractive copy of this issue. Weight, 268g. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, in card sleeve. $5.00 - $6.50 depending on location. Images available. Enquire for rates to Worldwide destinations. View More...
World War 2 Fact Files. US Army Air Forces Fighters, Part II. 84pp, profusely illustrated with photos and diagrams. Bright, clean and unmarked - tight, square binding, no creases. Almost 'as new'. Weight, 347g. View More...
Third volume of the Official History of the RCAF covering World War II. 1st printing, small 4to, 6.75"x10", 1096pp, photo illus, appendices, folding plates, maps etc. Hardcover in blue cloth with gilt titles on spine and with unclipped dustjacket. Almost 'as new'. Heavy, thick book weighing 1.961kg. View More...
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1984, Volume 198, No 109. A Lecture intended to be presented at an Ordinary Meeting in London on Thursday 13 September 1984 at 6p.m. Author - G D Griffin: Director, Lyndon B Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA. pp1-15, illustrated. Bright, clean, unnarked copy with a sound, stapled binding. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Images always available. Shipped well packed. USA postage usually $6.50 or less. Canadian post... View More...
At the age of twenty, Chuck Gross spent his 1970-71 tour with the 71st Assault Helicopter Company flying UH-1 Huey helicopters. Soon after the war he wrote down his adventures, while his memory was still fresh with the events. 'North Texas military biography and memoir series, no. 1'. xiii, 229 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. A completely 'as new' copy - bright, fresh and unmarked. Weight, 340g. View More...
An account of the McDonnell Douglas F-18 Hornet fighter aircraft, known a the Stinger. Foreword by Chief Test Pilot, Jack Krings. [144pp], profusely illustrated with color photographs. Book is bright, clean and unmarked. Binding is tight and square. Cloth shows no wear. Unclipped dustjacketshows a little wear tohead of spine. Large heavy book weighing 1.08kg. View More...
The colorful story of triplane development, the daring men who flew them and their brief but glorious period of deployment during WWI, 1914-1918. 239 pages illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, portraits 30 cm. OCLC Number: 35943. Book is bright, clean and unmarked. Bindiung is tight and square and the cloth shows no wear. The unclipped dustjacket, in protective brodart, shows only minor edge wear. Heavy book weighing 1.17kg. View More...
Canadian Aviation magazine. Incorporates 'Commercial Aviation'. CF-101B Voodoos jet fighters to front cover. 62pp, photo illustrated, adverts. Clean overall. Address label to front wrapper. Sound binding. Weight, 175g. Orders of multiplecopies save on shipping. View More...
Canadian Aviation magazine. Incorporates 'Commercial Aviation'. 82pp, photo illustrated, adverts. Clean and bright overall. A little surface age-soil to wrappers, adress label to front. Sound binding. Weight, 272g. Order multiple copies - save on shipping. View More...
Canadian Aviation magazine. Incorporates 'Commercial Aviation'. CF-104 jet fighter taking off on its maiden flight to front cover. 58pp, photo illustrated, adverts. Clean overall. A little surface age-soil to wrappers, adress label to front. Sound binding. Weight, 160g. Multiples save on shipping. View More...
Volume 4 of the 5 vol series. Armstrong and Aldin on the Moon. Apollo 7 thru 11. The Command Service and Lunar Modules. The Launch Window. Suiting Up for Space. 144pp, profusely illustrated, some in color. Bright, clean, unmarked interior. Tight binding, no spine creases. Some very light rubbing to surfaces and along spine edges. Weight, 400g. View More...
