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AVIATION HEROES and GREAT AERIAL EVENTS in FLYING

AVIATION HEROES and GREAT AERIAL EVENTS in FLYING

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Unique, historical book about the dramatic, unknown, and sometimes comical events of Aviation History. Electronic signatures (on my jpegs) won't be on the over 100 photo prints in this volume, featuring famous aerial events and the inventors, builders, designers, pilots and aviation heroes. Book also includes approximately 13 Portrait Sketches of famous fliers, and other miscellaneous drawings and prints of maps, postage stamps, posters, etc.
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All illustrations in thia book are in black & white.
213 pages covering:
Aeronautical stunts, daredevil wingwalkers, racers, stunt shows, navigations, historic flights of risk, races and special events. Covers planes and other aircraft like balloons, Jenny biplanes, airships, and bubble blimps.

The heroes/heroines covered are:
Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan
Count Zeppelin
Wiley Post
Roscoe Turner
Lieutenant William C Davis
Pilot Arthur Goebel
Major Livingston Irving
Amelia Earhart
Mildred Doran
Charles Augustus Lindbergh
Roy Knabenshue (designer, builder, flier)
Clarence Chamberlin
Richard E Byrd
General Billy Mitchell
Cal Rodgers
Glenn Curtiss
Frank Clarke
Leigh Sellers
Lincoln Beachey
The Brothers Grover and Lawrence Bell
The Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright
and more!

Very extensive, comprehensive book, 213 pages with INDEX that makes a great gift -- not too big or heavy -- just right, weighs about a pound or less and measures at 9 x 6 inches.

No dust jacket but so easy to cover it up with one of your own and is of sunshine-yellow cloth hardcover.
It seems this it out of print. Many of the photos illustrations may be hard to find but here you have it all.

Former library book that seems as if the only one who touched it was the librarian - no scribble or tears - pages still in strong, well-bound condition. Only flaws are library left their stamps and marks mainly on blank endpapers/cover pages that are covered with stickers so looks NICE for gift giving. Vintage, old-fashioned card holder in back and library code penned on spine, cloth hardcover seems clean overall and any marks are minor. So not mint condition but great condition for a vintage 1970s out-of-print book that may make a fun gift.

Originally written for the teen market and nowadays is a rare, out-of-print collectible for adults and young adults 13 and over. Due to the new CPSIA guidelines for vintage dealers (mentioned on my policies page) this item is not marketed towards children 12 and under but rather as a vintage collectible. This book is tagged "children" only for kids 13 and up or adult collectors of out-of-print juvenile literature.

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Added on Sep 17, 2009