Category: Aviation

The Saturday Evening Post, June 25, 1960, Volume 232, Number 52 - They Killed Heydrich (part 2 of 3) /Irna Phillips of the Soap Operas

Price: $199.95

Publisher: USA, The Curtis Publishing Company : 1960

Seller ID: 143h4971

ISBN: B005K04XTO

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

80 pages. Features: ; Unmarked with average wear. A quality vintage copy.
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Image for The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Everybody, Vol. XLIII - No. 257, September (Sept.) 1919 - The Thrills of Parachuting (Cover Illustration)

The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Everybody, Vol. XLIII - No. 257, September (Sept.) 1919 - The Thrills of Parachuting (Cover Illustration)

By: "Woodpecker"; McDade, J.; Heilner, V.C.; Macdonald, T.A.; West, J.; Von Blon, J.L.; Jordan, John A.; Rose, Frank; Walkey, C.E.G.; Heald, T.D.; Leslie, H.; Strong, Robert D.; Et al

Price: $395.00

Publisher: London, George Newnes, Ltd. : 1919

Seller ID: 123g4356

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Pages 353-440, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Flying in Central Africa - part 2 - tales from the log book of an R.A.F. officer during the campaign in German East Africa - article with interesting photos; Torn by Starving Jackals in Macedonia - Private James McDade of the 6th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers recounts his experience - with photo of McDade; Death-Struggle with An Alligator - what happened to Van Campen Heilner when he was photographing an alligator in a Florida swamp - photo-illustrated article; The Thrills of Parachuting - early and marvelously photo-illustrated article ...
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Image for Gathering of Demons: 407 Demon Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force [RCAF], during its first year of operations, between May 8, 1941, and June 30, 1942, when it was engaged on low level shipping attacks along the coasts of occupied Europe

Gathering of Demons: 407 Demon Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force [RCAF], during its first year of operations, between May 8, 1941, and June 30, 1942, when it was engaged on low level shipping attacks along the coasts of occupied Europe

By: Abbott, [John] Kim[ble]

Price: $295.00

Publisher: Ontario, Canada, Inkerman House : 1987

Seller ID: 223j0307

ISBN-13: 9780969267102

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

"Author was an original Demon captain and one of the few survivors who flew on operations throughout the period he describes. A carefully researched book based upon what really happened from a German, as well as an Allied point of view." - inside back cover. [8], 228 pages. Many excellent black and white photographic plates. Bibliography. Index. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality copy of this very informative history. Cooke (3rd Edn) p.317; Cover Art; 8vo
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Canadian Geographical Journal, June, 1947 - ICAO - The International Civil Aviation Organization

By: Abell, Walter; Ward, J.D.U.; Ayre, Robert; Edge, Frederic

Price: $149.95

Publisher: Canada, The Canadian Geographical Society : 1947

Seller ID: 302g3432

Binding: Paperback

Pages 249-293 plus seventeen pages of nice vintage ads. Features: An Introduction to Canadian Architecture - major article with dozens of photos; Britain's Trees and Forests; Lawren Harris; PICAO into ICAO - International Civil Aviation Organization; and more. Some of the ads include: 1947 Mercury 114 car; The Monarch 8 car; Canadian Pacific - great one-page color ad for their train travel and Empress Hotel. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.
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The Saturday Evening Post, June 25, 1960, Volume 232, Number 52 - They Killed Heydrich (part 2 of 3) /Irna Phillips of the Soap Operas

By: Albee, George; Ruhen, Olaf; Carson, Robert; Gulick, Bill; et al

Price: $199.95

Publisher: USA, The Curtis Publishing Company : 1960

Seller ID: 143h4970

ISBN: B005K04XTO

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

132 pages. Features: Gorgeous cover illustration of Peachtree Street in Atlanta, by John Falter; Great Day in the Morning (short story by G.S. Albee); Stowaway Boy (short story by Olaf Ruhen); Counterfeit Wife (short story by Robert Carson); The White Warrior (short story by Bill Gulick); We Learned To Live With Tragedy - Sparky Ratcliffe's ability to walk was threatened after an auto accident; Year of Decision for Bill Rigney, Manager of the San Francisco Giants; California's Complex Governor - Pat Brown struggles with capital punishment and the case of Caryl Chessman; Madam Soap Opera - Ir...
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Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, October (Oct.) 25th, 1958 - The Oscar Peterson's at Home

By: Allen, Robert T.; Lower, A.R.M.; Callwood, June; Clare, John; Hannon, Leslie F.; Berton, Pierre; Scholefield, Alan

Price: $295.00

Publisher: Canada, Maclean Hunter / Key Publishers : 1958

Seller ID: 201h2435

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

92 pages. Cover illustration depicts eel harvesting on the lower St. Lawrence near Baie St. Paul, Quebec. Editorial column on page four strongly supports the decision to suspend production of "the very good but very obsolete fighter aircraft, the Arrow." Nice one-page Rambler automobile ad. Beautiful 2-page colour ad for the new Dodge '59. Features: A Macleans Panel Discussion - a new look at the future of man; A TV Repairman talks back; The gods Canadians worship; The Oscar Petersons at Home; My week on the Grand Banks; Roy Thomson's Invasion of Scotland; Klondike! - Conclusion - The ris...
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Image for Aviation Engineering and Aircraft Servicing (Magazine), With Which is Consolidated Airway Age - The Technical Journal of the Aeronautical Industry, January (Jan.) 1932 - The Sperry Automatic Pilot / The Herrick Vertoplane

Aviation Engineering and Aircraft Servicing (Magazine), With Which is Consolidated Airway Age - The Technical Journal of the Aeronautical Industry, January (Jan.) 1932 - The Sperry Automatic Pilot / The Herrick Vertoplane

By: Angle, G.; Caldwell, F.; Sperry, E.; Lederer, J.; Allen, J.; Vaughan, G.; Hoffman, E.; Klemin, A.; Herrick, G.; Weidinger, H.

Price: $199.95

Publisher: USA, Aircraft Engineering : 1932

Seller ID: 201h2492

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

58 pages. Features: Front cover Thompson Valves ad commemorates Major "Jimmy" Doolittle's record transcontinental flight from Burbank to Newark in 1931; Positioning of Link Rod Wrist Pins in Articulated Connecting Rods; Propeller Design; The Sperry Automatic Pilot for Airplanes; Fire Extinguishers; Methods of Laying Out Flat Patterns; Fuel and Lubricants in Relation to Engine Design; The Triangle Parachute; Vortex Theory and the Tapered Wing; The Herrick Vertoplane; German Experiments with Chemical Cooling of Aircraft Engines; New Planes - The C-J Bird and the Cabin Giro; Cold Prevention of D...
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Aviation Engineering (Magazine), April (Apr.) 1933 - Editorial on the Akron Disaster / New Boeing Transport

By: Angle, G.; Hardecker, J.; Searles, E.; Finnie, T.; Miller, R.; Koudry, J.; Anderson, W.

Price: $199.95

Publisher: USA, Bryan Davis Publishing Co., Ltd. : 1933

Seller ID: 201h2498

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

32 pages. Features: Front cover Thompson Valves ad salutes Canadian Airways Limited; Shank Proportions of Aircraft Connecting Rods; Construction of Aircraft Fuel Tanks; The Effect of Change of Weight on Airplane Performance; The Value of Weight Saving in Aircraft Design; Notes on Stresses in Metal Covering Under the Action of a Uniformly Distributed Load; Copper Hydrogen Electric Welding; The New Boeing Transport; Pratt & Whitney Two-Row Engine Development; World Aviation; The Servo Control System; Bumps Due to Gusts; A Radio System for Fog Landings; The Debrie Camera; New features of the Mac...
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Canadian Aviation Magazine, February 1939

By: Bankart, D.E.; Field, G. Blackstone; Farrell, Con; Bradbrooke, F.D.; Ritchey, V.J.; Keith, R.A.; Finnie, Richard

Price: $199.95

Publisher: Ottawa, Aeronautical Publications Limited : 1939

Seller ID: 845g0933

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

56 pages. Features: Cover photo of an Aeronca Chief piloted by Johnny Jones on his non-stop transcontinental flight; Photos taken at the Luncheon at the Annual Meeting of teh Canadian Flying Clubs Association, Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, January 30, 1939; Nice one-page Gold Flake cigarette ad; Flying beyond sixty - article and photos (part 1); Flight tests of the Boeing Stratoliner - article and great photos; Pilots of the Northern Sky use Up-to-date Radios; De Havilland Expands - photos of addition to Willowdale plant; Excellent one-page photo ad for De Havilland features the Dragon Rapide, Tig...
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Canada West Magazine, Winter 1972, Volume 4, Number 4 - The Cliff Dweller / The 1913 Liberty Nickel

By: Barlee, N.L.; Dyre, A.R.; Milliken, A.C.

Price: $149.95

Publisher: Canada, Canada West Magazines : 1972

Seller ID: 417h3143

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

40 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Discovery - Gold Town in the Atlin District of B.C.; The Collector's Page; Edward Dossetter's Queen Charlottes - he was a photographer who travelled the northwest coast in the late 1870s; The 1913 Liberty Nickel; Billy Ballou - The Forgotten Expressman; Canadiana - spitoons/cuspidors; The Cliff Dweller; Letters from the North-West - Part II - A.R. Dyre was a young North West Mounted Police Constable from 1882 to 1885; Our Vanishing Heritage - false front buildings; Gagnon and His Flying Machine - was he the first to make a vertical free (he...
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Flying Magazine, August 1920, Volume IX, No. 7

By: Bartlett, Alice Hunt; Woodhouse, Henry; Veit, Sidney B.;

Price: $199.95

Publisher: New York, Flying Association, Inc. : 1920

Seller ID: 845g1134

Binding: Paperback

Pages 417-480. Many magnificent illustrated ads for manufacturers including United States Rubber, Cantilever Aero Company, Wyman-Gordon Company, J.L. Aircraft Corporation, Vickers, Caproni, Curtiss, American Dirigible Balloon Syndicate, Farman Aeroplanes, Quality Snap Rings, plus a great centerfold ad for the Lawson Airline Company of Milwaukee. The Farman ad is particularly outstanding as it features a photo of their "Goliath" in flight, as well as a list of the company's world records. Articles: Patrollers of the Skies; U.S. is ahead of world in Aerial transportation; Post Office departmen...
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Newsweek Magazine, August (Aug.) 10, 1981 - Japan's High-Tech Challenge

By: Barton, Clare Bishop; Axthelm, Pete; Greenfield, Meg; et al

Price: $99.95

Publisher: New York, Newsweek, Inc. : 1982

Seller ID: 838g4886

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

72 pages. Features: Two-page color-photo ad for the Ford Series 10 tractor, "The World Tractor"; The Tuskegee Airmen Keep on Flying - the 99th Fighter Squadron and the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bomber Group were the only all-black flying units organized by the US Air Force in WWII; Justice Rose Bird of the California Supreme Court; Reagan's War on Drugs - major article with photos, including George Bush Sr. leaning on bales of marijuana; Tax Bill politics in D.C.; A New Look at Child Labor; Jimmy Hoffa Legally Dead; Killenworth Mansion on Long Island - Soviet nest spying on local def...
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Canadian Geographical Journal, February [Feb.] 1937, Vol. XIV, No. 2 - Trans-Canada Airway / Ski-ing [Skiing] In Canada

By: Batchelor, Dudley, E.; Patterson, Ewen K.; Grant, J. Fergus; et al

Price: $199.95

Publisher: Ottawa, Canada, The Canadian Geographical Society : 1937

Seller ID: 658h3482

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

VI [ads], 55-124 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos. Features: Ski-ing in Canada; With the Pearlers (Pearl Divers] of Northern Australia; Trans-Canada Airway - article includes informative map showing Canada's public airports, airports with lights, intermediate aerodromes and intermediate landing fields, and photos of land clearing for airports at Salmo, B.C., Kitchener, B.C., Coleman, Alberta, Amesdale, Ontario, and Yahk, B.C.; New Books; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this nice issue.
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Canadian Geographical Journal, March 1942 - Canada's Aircraft Industry

By: Bell, Ralph P.; Tallantyre, Renee; Owen, H.G.

Price: $169.95

Publisher: Canada, The Canadian Geographical Society : 1942

Seller ID: 302g3424

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Pages 111-158 plus sixteen pages of nice vintage ads. Features: Canada's Aircraft Industry - dozens of excellent photos of manufacturing and the key people behind it; Against the Dutch East Indian Backdrop - a look at Borneo - article with nice photos; Flying and the Telephone; and more. Some of the best ads include: Lovely Ontario Wines two-color ad inside front cover; General Electric (instruments for Canadian bombers); Malton's National Steel Car; The Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario (features illustration of military aviator). Bit of writing atop front cover. Average wear. Bi...
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Canadian Aviation Historical Society (CAHS) Journal, Winter 2010, Vol. 48, No. 4 - The Curtiss HS-2L and the Beginnings of a National Air Force

By: Billing, Brick; Halliday, Hugh; Stachiw, Tony; Griffin, John

Price: $69.95

Publisher: Ottawa, Canadian Aviation Historical Society (CAHS) : 2010

Seller ID: 336h0560

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Pages 114-143 Many great black and white photos. Features: Deliverum Non Dunkum - No. 1 Overseas Ferry Unit; The Crash of KB914; The Curtiss HS-2L and the Beginnings of a National Air Force (part 2); ; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy.; Magazine; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Canadian Aviation Historical Society (CAHS) Journal, Winter 2010, Vol. 48, No. 4 - The Curtiss HS-2L and the Beginnings of a National Air Force Deliverum Non Dunkum - No. 1 Overseas Ferry Unit; The Crash of KB914; The Curtiss HS-2L and the Beginnings of
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Image for Aviation Engineering (Magazine) - The Technical Journal of the Aeronautical Industry, October (Oct.) 1929 - The Junkers Aero Diesel / Boeing Production Methods

Aviation Engineering (Magazine) - The Technical Journal of the Aeronautical Industry, October (Oct.) 1929 - The Junkers Aero Diesel / Boeing Production Methods

By: Blackburn, E.C. Jr.; Milburn, Lessiter C.; Mankey, W.A.; Johnson, Robert; Scherer, J. Otto; Gassner, Alfred A.; Grosvenor, Graham B.

Price: $199.95

Publisher: New York City, Bryan Davis Publishing Co., Ltd. : 1929

Seller ID: 201h2477

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

52 pages. Features: Heating, Ventilating and Cooling Aircraft for Passenger Transportation; Recent Improvements in Airplane Structures; Materials in Aircraft Structures; Boeing Production Methods; The Junkers Aero Diesel - a water-cooled, vertical six-in-line operating on the well-known Junkers Opposed-Piston Two-Cycle Principle (article with photos); Aerodynamic Anomalies; Welding Our Air Transport Systems; Seaplane Design; New Aircraft - with photo of Fokker F-32 and more; News of the Industry; Airports and Airways - with photo of the first Saunders Fly-It-Yourself hangar at Fairfax Airport...
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Image for American Aviation Historical Society [A.A.H.S.] Journal, Summer [Second Quarter] 1964, Volume 9, Number 2 - A History of the 491st Bombardment Group (H)

American Aviation Historical Society [A.A.H.S.] Journal, Summer [Second Quarter] 1964, Volume 9, Number 2 - A History of the 491st Bombardment Group (H)

By: Blue, Allan G.; Robinson, Douglas H.; Sloan, James J.; Pritchard, J. Raymond; Letzter, George J.; Mandrake, Charles G.; Rust, Kenn C.; Buffington, H. Glenn; Jefferies, Walter M. Jr.; Bulban, Erwin J.

Price: $295.00

Publisher: Glendale, CA, U.S.A., American Aviation Historical Society : 1964

Seller ID: 622h5565

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

Pages 79-150. Features: Ringmasters - A History of the 401st Bombardment Group (H); Mystery of the Dixmude (French navy rigid airship disaster in December 1923); The Old Rifle Range Airport - A field near Kitty Hawk now all but forgotten; Crusader De-Tails - Part II; Mortality in Army Aviation - from a 1914 War Department document describing in detail the 11 fatal aviation accidents which occurred since the initiation of Army aviation in 1908; Wedell-Williams "We Will Jr." - Wedell-Williams Air Service, Inc. resulted after one-eyed Texas flyer James Wedell met Louisiana lumber baron Harry P. ...
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Aviation Week and Space Technology Magazine, 25 December 1961, Vol. 75, No. 26 - Sikorsky S-64 Feature Article

By: Booda, Larry; et al

Price: $149.95

Publisher: USA, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company : 1961

Seller ID: 653h5774

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Features: Nice one-page ad for Vickers hydraulics features the Titan rocket; One-page Boeing ad features photo of B-52 launching a Hound Dog missile in-flight; Interesting one-page Texas Instruments ad features photos of their products for space command and guidance; Photo of Japan's MAT wire-guided missile on display in a parade; Article on Robert McNamara's Defense Budget shifts; Boeing Co. Will Build Saturn S-1B Stage (article); Dyna-Soar Suborbital Flights Eliminated; Monkey Pod Lost after Atlas E Flight; USAF Plans Lunar Shelter Design Study; Photos of the Mirage 3-E and 3-R; BOAC Occupie...
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Air Trails and Science Frontiers Magazine, April 1947 - Over the Arctic

By: Boone, Andrew R.; Hays, Major Norman P.; Hertzmark, Elliott S.; Coupling, J.J.; Snody, Allan P.; Forbes; Esther H.; Wilson, Bruce A.; Hoyt, John R.

Price: $199.95

Publisher: USA, Street and Smith : 1947

Seller ID: 449g1696

Binding: Paperback

118 pages. Many great black and white photos. Features: Airlines Safety; Northrop's Pioneer; Across the Top of the World - Epic story of Dreamboat's 10,000 mile flight over the top of the world, as told by its navigator - article with super photos; Meet Your Instruments; Microwave Radio Bandwagon; The Farmer Takes a Plane - the airplane is definitely proving itself to be an agricultural and farming implement; Aviation Insurance; Alaska - Air Freight Yardstick; Learn to Fly - part 8; Behind the Beam - the radio range system of navigation; National Soaring Contest; The Ryan XF2R-1; Many pages ...
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Image for Canadian Aviation, April 1937 - Canada's National Aviation Magazine - Trans-Canada Air Lines is Incorporated - Fantastic Beechcraft Centrefold Ad

Canadian Aviation, April 1937 - Canada's National Aviation Magazine - Trans-Canada Air Lines is Incorporated - Fantastic Beechcraft Centrefold Ad

By: Bradbrooke, F.D.; Main, J.R.K.

Price: $299.95

Publisher: Ottawa, Canada, Aeronautical Publications Limited : 1937

Seller ID: 845g0914

Binding: Paperback

36 pages. Features: Cover photo in cab of the new Twin Beechcraft; Pratt & Whitney ad inside front cover; Great half-page photo of a De Havilland Dragon above the clouds; Aerial History in the Making - passage of the Act to incorporate the Trans-Canada Air Lines; Great full-page photo ad for Gold Flake cigarettes features photo of screen star Anna Lee; News and Views of the Month; Early Experiments in British Columbia - an account of experimental efforts in flying conducted at Vancouver shortly after the achievements attained by McCurdy, Baldwin, and their associates at Baddeck, Nova Scotia -...
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Category: Aviation