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| 1. | AFFLECK, Arthur H. THE WANDERING YEARS. Commercial Aviation in Australia and New Guinea. Longmans. Croydon, VIC. 1964. First Edition; 211; e/p maps, 31 historic b/w photos; hardcover in dust jacket; (2 small library stamps) o/wise very good condition. An account of the beginnings of commercial aviation in Australia, enlivened with anecdotes of characters and incidents, with chapters covering the Flying Doctor Service and finishing the account with aviation in New Guinea. |
$35. |
| 2. | AGAWA, Hiroyuki. THE RELUCTANT ADMIRAL. Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy. Translated from the Japanese by John Bester. Kodansha Int. Tokyo. 1979 [first published in Japanese 1969] 379, index; 19 b/w photos; hardcover in (bruised) dust jacket; very good condition. Admiral Yamamoto, was the realist who foresaw the future importance of the airplane for the navy, but who believed that Japan would inevitably be defeated in any war with America and Britain, yet in the end he showed the same readiness as most of his fellow countrymen to accept passively the call of duty, the author has gone straight to the original sources, accounts written by those who worked with Yamamoto, scores of interviews with men and women who knew him personally and letters written by Yamamoto himself, both semi-official communications and intimate letters addressed to his mistress or long-standing friends, in which he bares his private doubts and pessimism. |
$35. |
| 3. | AIR ENTHUSIAST Eighteen 18. Tri-Service Press. Bromley, Kent. 1982. 80; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; pictorial cardcover; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. Individual issue of the premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. For similar hardbound volumes also look under Air International. |
$16. |
| 4. | AIR ENTHUSIAST Forty-one 41. Tri-Service Press. Bromley, Kent. 1989. 80; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; pictorial cardcover; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. Individual issue of the premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. For similar hardbound volumes also look under Air International. |
$14. |
| 5. | AIR ENTHUSIAST Nineteen 19. Tri-Service Press. Bromley, Kent. 1982. 80; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; pictorial cardcover; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. Individual issue of the premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. For similar hardbound volumes also look under Air International. |
$16. |
| 6. | AIR ENTHUSIAST Seventeen 17. Tri-Service Press. Bromley, Kent. 1981. 80; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; pictorial cardcover; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. Individual issue of the premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. For similar hardbound volumes also look under Air International. |
$16. |
| 7. | AIR ENTHUSIAST Six 6 Fine Scroll Limited. Bromley, Kent. 1974. 316, index; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; hardcover in fine dust jacket [protected]; A4 format; fine condition. The premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. After Volume 6 the hardbound volumes of this series were issued under the Title of Air International see additional titles under this name. |
$49. |
| 8. | AIR ENTHUSIAST Sixteen 16. Tri-Service Press. Bromley, Kent. 1981. 80; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; pictorial cardcover; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. Individual issue of the premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. For similar hardbound volumes also look under Air International. |
$16. |
| 9. | AIR ENTHUSIAST Thirty-five 35. Tri-Service Press. Bromley, Kent. 1988. 80; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; pictorial cardcover; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. Individual issue of the premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. For similar hardbound volumes also look under Air International. |
$14. |
| 10. | AIR ENTHUSIAST Thirty-seven 37. Tri-Service Press. Bromley, Kent. 1988. 80; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; pictorial cardcover; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. Individual issue of the premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. For similar hardbound volumes also look under Air International. |
$14. |
| 11. | AIR ENTHUSIAST Thirty-six 36. Tri-Service Press. Bromley, Kent. 1988. 80; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; pictorial cardcover; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. Individual issue of the premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. For similar hardbound volumes also look under Air International. |
$14. |
| 12. | AIR ENTHUSIAST Thirty-three 33. Tri-Service Press. Bromley, Kent. 1987. 80; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; pictorial cardcover; A4 format; fine condition. Individual issue of the premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. For similar hardbound volumes also look under Air International. |
$14. |
| 13. | AIR ENTHUSIAST Three 3 [1972]. 320, index; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; hardcover in fine dust jacket [protected]; A4 format; fine condition. Rare. The premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. After Volume 6 the hardbound volumes of this series were issued under the Title of Air International see additional titles under this name. |
$49. |
| 14. | AIR ENTHUSIAST Twenty 20. Tri-Service Press. Bromley, Kent. 1982. 80; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; pictorial cardcover; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. Individual issue of the premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. For similar hardbound volumes also look under Air International. |
$16. |
| 15. | AIR ENTHUSIAST Twenty-eight 28. Tri-Service Press. Bromley, Kent. 1985. 80; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; pictorial cardcover; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. Individual issue of the premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. For similar hardbound volumes also look under Air International. |
$15. |
| 16. | AIR ENTHUSIAST Twenty-five 25. Tri-Service Press. Bromley, Kent. 1984. 80; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; pictorial cardcover; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. Individual issue of the premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. For similar hardbound volumes also look under Air International. |
$15. |
| 17. | AIR ENTHUSIAST Twenty-four 24. Tri-Service Press. Bromley, Kent. 1984. 80; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; pictorial cardcover; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. Individual issue of the premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. For similar hardbound volumes also look under Air International. |
$15. |
| 18. | AIR ENTHUSIAST Twenty-one 21. Tri-Service Press. Bromley, Kent. 1982. 80; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; pictorial cardcover; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. Individual issue of the premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. For similar hardbound volumes also look under Air International. |
$15. |
| 19. | AIR ENTHUSIAST Twenty-seven 27. Tri-Service Press. Bromley, Kent. 1985. 80; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; pictorial cardcover; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. Individual issue of the premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. For similar hardbound volumes also look under Air International. |
$15. |
| 20. | AIR ENTHUSIAST Twenty-seven 27. Tri-Service Press. Bromley, Kent. 1985. 80; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; pictorial cardcover; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. Individual issue of the premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. For similar hardbound volumes also look under Air International. |
$15. |
| 21. | AIR ENTHUSIAST Twenty-six 26. Tri-Service Press. Bromley, Kent. 1984. 80; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; pictorial cardcover; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. Individual issue of the premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. For similar hardbound volumes also look under Air International. |
$15. |
| 22. | AIR ENTHUSIAST Two 2 Doubleday. Garden City, NY. 1972. 331, index; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; hardcover in fine dust jacket [protected]; A4 format; fine condition. Rare. The premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. After Volume 6 the hardbound volumes of this series were issued under the Title of Air International see additional titles under this name. |
$49. |
| 23. | AIR INTERNATIONAL Eleven 11 Fine Scroll Limited. Bromley, Kent. 1976. 312, index; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; hardcover in fine dust jacket [protected]; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. The premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. Before Volume VII publications in this hardcover series were issued under the title of Air Enthusiast look for other listings under this name. |
$49. |
| 24. | AIR INTERNATIONAL Fourteen 14 Fine Scroll Limited. Bromley, Kent. 1978. 312, index; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; hardcover in fine dust jacket [protected]; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce The premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. Before Volume VII publications in this hardcover series were issued under the title of Air Enthusiast look for other listings under this name. |
$39. |
| 25. | AIR INTERNATIONAL Nineteen 19 Fine Scroll Limited. Bromley, Kent. 1980. 304, index; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; hardcover in fine dust jacket [protected]; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. The premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. Before Volume VII publications in this hardcover series were issued under the title of Air Enthusiast look for other listings under this name. |
$39. |
| 26. | AIR INTERNATIONAL Seven 7 Fine Scroll Limited. Bromley, Kent. 1974. 308, index; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; hardcover in fine dust jacket [protected]; A4 format; fine condition. The premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. Before Volume VII publications in this hardcover series were issued under the title of Air Enthusiast look for other listings under this name. |
$49. |
| 27. | AIR INTERNATIONAL Seventeen 17 Fine Scroll Limited. Bromley, Kent. 1979. 308, index; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; hardcover in fine dust jacket [protected]; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. The premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. Before Volume VII publications in this hardcover series were issued under the title of Air Enthusiast look for other listings under this name. |
$39. |
| 28. | AIR INTERNATIONAL Sixteen 16 Fine Scroll Limited. Bromley, Kent. 1979. 308, index; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; hardcover in fine dust jacket [protected]; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. The premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. Before Volume VII publications in this hardcover series were issued under the title of Air Enthusiast look for other listings under this name. |
$39. |
| 29. | AIR INTERNATIONAL Ten 10 Fine Scroll Limited. Bromley, Kent. 1976. 312, index; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; hardcover in fine dust jacket [protected]; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. The premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. Before Volume VII publications in this hardcover series were issued under the title of Air Enthusiast look for other listings under this name. |
$49. |
| 30. | AIR INTERNATIONAL Thirteen 13 Fine Scroll Limited. Bromley, Kent. 1977. 314, index; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; hardcover in fine dust jacket [protected]; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. The premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. Before Volume VII publications in this hardcover series were issued under the title of Air Enthusiast look for other listings under this name. |
$39. |
| 31. | AIR INTERNATIONAL Thirty 30 Fine Scroll Limited. Bromley, Kent. 1986. 312, index; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; hardcover in fine dust jacket [protected]; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. The premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. Before Volume VII publications in this hardcover series were issued under the title of Air Enthusiast look for other listings under this name. |
$39. |
| 32. | AIR INTERNATIONAL Thirty One 31 Fine Scroll Limited. Bromley, Kent. 1986. 326, index; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; hardcover in fine dust jacket [protected]; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. The premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. Before Volume VII publications in this hardcover series were issued under the title of Air Enthusiast look for other listings under this name. |
$39. |
| 33. | AIR INTERNATIONAL Thirty Three 33 Fine Scroll Limited. Bromley, Kent. 1987. 312, index; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; hardcover in fine dust jacket [protected]; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. The premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. Before Volume VII publications in this hardcover series were issued under the title of Air Enthusiast look for other listings under this name. |
$39. |
| 34. | AIR INTERNATIONAL Thirty Two 32 Fine Scroll Limited. Bromley, Kent. 1987. 332, index; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; hardcover in fine dust jacket [protected]; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. The premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. Before Volume VII publications in this hardcover series were issued under the title of Air Enthusiast look for other listings under this name. |
$39. |
| 35. | AIR INTERNATIONAL Twelve 12 Fine Scroll Limited. Bromley, Kent. 1977. 308, index; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; hardcover in fine dust jacket [protected]; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. The premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. Before Volume VII publications in this hardcover series were issued under the title of Air Enthusiast look for other listings under this name. |
$39. |
| 36. | AIR INTERNATIONAL Twenty 20 Fine Scroll Limited. Bromley, Kent. 1981. 310, index; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; hardcover in fine dust jacket [protected]; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. The premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. Before Volume VII publications in this hardcover series were issued under the title of Air Enthusiast look for other listings under this name. |
$39. |
| 37. | AIR INTERNATIONAL Twenty Eight 28 Fine Scroll Limited. Bromley, Kent. 1985. 334, index; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; hardcover in fine dust jacket [protected]; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. The premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. Before Volume VII publications in this hardcover series were issued under the title of Air Enthusiast look for other listings under this name. |
$39. |
| 38. | AIR INTERNATIONAL Twenty Nine 29 Fine Scroll Limited. Bromley, Kent. 1985. 316, index; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; hardcover in fine dust jacket [protected]; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. The premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. Before Volume VII publications in this hardcover series were issued under the title of Air Enthusiast look for other listings under this name. |
$39. |
| 39. | AIR INTERNATIONAL Twenty Seven 27 Fine Scroll Limited. Bromley, Kent. 1984. 322, index; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; hardcover in fine dust jacket [protected]; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. The premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. Before Volume VII publications in this hardcover series were issued under the title of Air Enthusiast look for other listings under this name. |
$39. |
| 40. | AIR INTERNATIONAL Twenty Six 26 Fine Scroll Limited. Bromley, Kent. 1984. 314, index; fully illustrated with photos in b/w and colour, technical drawings, colour drawings; hardcover in fine dust jacket [protected]; A4 format; fine condition. Very scarce. The premier publication for aviation buffs, contemporary and historic aviation, civil and military, current events reviewed, modern airplanes dissected, old-timers recalled, military operations and much more. Before Volume VII publications in this hardcover series were issued under the title of Air Enthusiast look for other listings under this name. |
$39. |
| 41. | AIR NIUGINI. BEST OF PARADISE: A SELECTION OF STORIES FROM AIR NIUGINI'S IN-FLIGHT MAGAZINES. Editor: Gerry Dick. Air Niugini in association with Robert Brown and Associates. Port Moresby. 1978. First Edition; 135; fully illustrated in colour; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; (chip on spine of d/j, presentation inscription on e/p) o/wise very good condition. Very Scarce. Articles on anthropological and natural history subjects from this award winning magazine. |
$35. |
| 42. | AIR NIUGINI. BEST OF PARADISE: A SELECTION OF STORIES FROM AIR NIUGINI'S IN-FLIGHT MAGAZINES. Editor: Gerry Dick. Air Niugini in association with Robert Brown and Associates. Port Moresby. 1978. First Edition; 135; fully illustrated in colour; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; very good condition. Very Scarce. Articles on anthropological and natural history subjects from this award winning magazine. |
$40. |
| 43. | AIR NIUGINI. PARADISE. In-Flight with Air Niugini. Air Niugini. Port Moresby. 1976-2000. 30 to 64 range; fully illustrated in colour on heavy art paper; cardcover; A4 format; fine condition. Paradise the award winning in-flight magazine, from Air Niuguini the official airline of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, with articles on natural history, travel, village life and anthropology accompanied by well reproduced photographs. 1979 No.18 $18, No.19 $18; 1980 No.22 $18; No. 23 $18, No 26 $18, 1981 No.30 $18, No.32 $18; 1982 No.33 $18, No.35 $18, No.36 $18; 1983 No.39. $18, No.41 $15, No 43 $18; 1984 No.44 $15, No.45 $15, No.46 $15, No.48 $15, No.49 $15; 1985 No.51 $15, No.52 $15, No.53 $15, No.54 $15, No.55 $12; No.56. $12, No.57 $12, No.58 $12, No.59 $12; 1987 No.60 $12, No.61 $12, No.62 $12, No.63 $12, No.64 $12, No.65 $12; 1988 No.66 $12, No.67 $12, No.68 $12, No.69 $12, No.70 $12, No.71 $12, No.72 $12, No.73 $12; 1989 No.74 $12, No.75 $12, No.76 $12, No.77 $12; 1990 No.78 $10, No.79 $12, No.80 $10, No.81 $10, No.82 $10, No.83 $10; 1991 No.84 $10, No.85 $10, No.86 $10, No.87 $10, No.89 $10; 1992 No.90 $10, No.91 $10, No.92 $10, No.93 $10, No. 94 $10, No.95 $10; 1993 No.96 $10, No.97 $10, No.98 $10, No.99 $10, No.100 $10, No.101 $10; 1994 No.102 $10, No.103, $10, No.104 $10, No.105 $10, No.106 $10, No.107 $10; 1995 No.108 $10, No.109 $10, No.110 $10, No.111 $10, No.113 $10; 1996 No.115 $10, No.116 $10, No.117 $10, No.118 $10, 1997 No.119 $10, No.120 $10, No.121 $10, No.122 $10. No.123 $10; 1998 No.128 $10, No. 136 $10; 2000 No.138 $10, No.138 $9 (telephone number written on bottom of first page), No. 139 $10, No. 140 $10. Prices $10-18. |
$18. |
| 44. | AIR NIUGINI. PARADISE FACES. A Selection of Stories from Air Niugini's in-flight Magazines. Edited by Geoff McLaughlin. Air Niugini. Port Moresby. 1989. First Edition; 143; fully illustrated in colour on heavy art paper. hardcover in dust jacket; A4 format; fine condition. Articles on natural history and anthropology with very good photos, drawn from Paradise in-flight magazine. |
$35. |
| 45. | AIR NIUGINI. PARADISE PLUS. A Selection of Stories from Air Niugini's In-Flight Magazine. Edited by Gerry Dick. Pacific Publications in association with Air Niugini. Sydney. 1979. First Edition; 144; fully illustrated in colour; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; (corners bumped) o/wise very condition. Articles of anthropological and natural history interest from the award winning in-flight magazine of Air Niugini (the national airline of Papua New Guinea). |
$24. |
| 46. | AIR NIUGINI. PARADISE TALES. A Selection of Stories from Air Niugini's in-flight Magazine - Paradise. Edited by Geoff McLaughlin. Robert Brown & Associates in association with Air Niugini. Bathurst, NSW/Port Moresby. 1986. First Edition; 143; fully illustrated in colour on heavy art paper; hardcover in dust jacket; A4 format; fine condition. Articles drawn from Paradise the award winning in-flight magazine, natural history and anthropology. |
$35. |
| 47. | AIR TRANSPORT. The History of Transport in Queensland 2. Transport Department Queensland. Brisbane. [c. 1987]. 6 pages fold out brochure; historic photos; A4 format; good condition. From a series of School Project publications produced by the Queensland Department of Transport. |
$9. |
| 48. | AIRCRAFT OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE. Defence Printing Establishment. Brunswick, VIC. [c. 1961]. [80]; fully illustrated with b/w photos; cardcover; good condition. Rare. A guide to the numbering of Royal Australian Air Force planes, with illustrations of each type up until the Phantom F4E. |
$45. |
| 49. | AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR 2. Jade Books. Ware, Hertfordshire. 1984. 96; fully illustrated with historic and recent photographs in b/w and col.; hardcover in dust jacket; A4 format; fine condition. An illustrated survey of the development of piston-engined aircraft which played such a decisive part in warfare, all the best-known aircraft from the Zero to the Spitfire and the B-29. |
$25. |
| 50. | AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR II. Jade Books. Ware, Hertfordshire. 1984. 96; fully illustrated in b/w and col.; hardcover in dust jacket; A4 format; fine condition An illustrated survey of the development of piston-engined aircraft which played such a decisive part in warfare, the B-17, B-29, Spitfire, Stuka, P-51, Zero, with well reproduced photos on art paper. |
$30. |
| 51. | AN ALBUM OF AEROPLANES (CIVIL). John Player & Sons. [18]; 50 colour John Player Tobacco trading cards album mounted; cardcover; A5 format; (cover soiled) o/wise very good condition. Early aircraft trade card album with detailed captions of 50 aircraft, cards from photos by C.A. Sims of 'The Aeroplane'. |
$19. |
| 52. | (Amelia Earhart) BRINK, Randall. LOST STAR. The Search for Amelia Earhart - Her Mysterious Disappearance Solved at Last. Bloomsbury. London. 1994. First Edition; 206, index; historical photos and document reproductions; hardcover in dust jacket; mint. The result of ten years research by pilot Randall Brink, he records in gripping detail the circumstances of Earharts disappearance and what happened to her afterwards, includes a photograph discovered at Hickham Field Hawaii which appears to show Amelia Earhart being sworn into the U.S. Army Air Forces, with Major General Ocar Westover standing behind her. |
$45. |
| 53. | (Amelia Earhart) BURKE, John. WINGED LEGEND. The Story of Amelia Earhart. Arthur Barker Ltd. London. 1971 [first published 1970]. 255, index; 15 illustrations; hardcover in dust jacket (corners clipped); very good condition (new endpapers). Includes accounts of Darwin and her last days on land in Papua New Guinea and her final take off from Lae, the book stresses not what might have happened on her last flight, but the more important question, why? |
$30. |
| 54. | (Amelia Earhart) DE LEEUW, Adele. Illustrated by Harry Heckhoff. THE STORY OF AMELIA EARHART. Sampson Low. [London]. 1960 [first published 1955]. viii, 181; e/p illusts., text illustrated with line drawings; hardcover in (chipped, corner clipped) dust jacket; o/wise very good condition. Very Scarce. A biography of the noted aviator written for young readers. |
$35. |
| 55. | (Amelia Earhart) GOERNER, Fred. THE SEARCH FOR AMELIA EARHART. Doubleday. Garden City, NY. 1966. Book Club Edition; 336, index; 36 b/w illusts.; hardcover in (chipped) dust jacket; o/wise very good condition. Scarce. The Search for Amelia Earhart is a chronological story of the six-year 1960-66 investigation conducted by CBS, Scripps League of Newspapers and Associated Press into the mystery of the lost aviator, the author was a broadcaster at CBS, it is the author's story of his personal investigations over those six years. |
$35. |
| 56. | (Amelia Earhart) GOERNER, Fred. THE SEARCH FOR AMELIA EARHART. Bodley Head. London. 1966. First British Edition; 286; 18 b/w illusts.; hardcover in (chipped and corner clipped) dust jacket; (moisture stains on d/j, frontis., and back endpaper, owner's name on e/p) o/wise good condition. Scarce. The Search for Amelia Earhart is a chronological story of the six-year 1960-66 investigation conducted by CBS, Scripps League of Newspapers and Associated Press into the mystery of the lost aviator, the author was a broadcaster at CBS, it is the author's story of his personal investigations over those six years. |
$30. |
| 57. | (Amelia Earhart) GOERNER, Fred. THE SEARCH FOR AMELIA EARHART. Doubleday. Garden City, NY. 1966. First Edition; 326, index; 36 b/w illusts.; hardcover in (repaired & corner clipped) dust jacket; o/wise very good condition. Scarce. The Search for Amelia Earhart is a chronological story of the six-year 1960-66 investigation conducted by CBS, Scripps League of Newspapers and Associated Press into the mystery of the lost aviator, the author was a broadcaster at CBS, it is the author's story of his personal investigations over those six years. |
$40. |
| 58. | (Amelia Earhart) GOERNER, Fred. THE SEARCH FOR AMELIA EARHART. Doubleday. Garden City, NY. 1966. Book Club Edition; 336, index; 36 b/w illusts.; hardcover in dust jacket (corner clipped); o/wise very good condition. Scarce. The Search for Amelia Earhart is a chronological story of the six-year 1960-66 investigation conducted by CBS, Scripps League of Newspapers and Associated Press into the mystery of the lost aviator, the author was a broadcaster at CBS, it is the author's story of his personal investigations over those six years. |
$35. |
| 59. | (Amelia Earhart) LOVELL, Mary S. THE SOUND OF WINGS. The Life of Amelia Earhart. St Martin's Press. New York. 1989. US Edition; xxv, 420, index; e/p maps, 73 b/w illusts., text maps; hardcover in dust jacket (fine condition, protected); (owner's name and small stamp on e/p, two staple perforations) o/wise very good condition. Biography of the famed American aviator, her marriage to Putnam, Lindbergh's publisher, captures the romance and reckless daring of the fifteen to twenty year period that was the golden age of flight, based on original documents, letters, logbooks of Earhart and her contemporaries and interviews of the family. |
$24. |
| 60. | (Amelia Earhart) LOVELL, Mary S. THE SOUND OF WINGS. The Biography of Amelia Earhart. Hutchinson. London. 1989. First British Edition; xviii, 472, bibliog., index; e/p maps, 4 text maps, 64 b/w illusts.; hardcover in dust jacket (mint condition, protected); mint condition. Biography of the famed American aviator, her marriage to Putnam, Lindbergh's publisher, captures the romance and reckless daring of the fifteen to twenty year period that was the golden age of flight, based on original documents, letters, logbooks of Earhart and her contemporaries and interviews of the family. |
$28. |
| 61. | (Amelia Earhart) LOVELL, Mary S. THE SOUND OF WINGS. The Biography of Amelia Earhart. Hutchinson. London. 1989 (reprinted 1989). First British Edition (reprinted); xviii, 472, bibliog., index; e/p maps, 4 text maps, 64 b/w illusts.; hardcover in dust jacket (mint condition, protected); mint condition. Biography of the famed American aviator, her marriage to Putnam, Lindbergh's publisher, captures the romance and reckless daring of the fifteen to twenty year period that was the golden age of flight, based on original documents, letters, logbooks of Earhart and her contemporaries and interviews of the family. |
$27. |
| 62. | (Amelia Earhart) LOVELL, Mary S. THE SOUND OF WINGS. The Life of Amelia Earhart. St Martin's Press. New York. 1989. First US Edition; xxv, 420, index; e/p maps, 73 b/w illusts., text maps; hardcover in dust jacket (mint condition, protected); mint condition. Biography of the famed American aviator, her marriage to Putnam, Lindbergh's publisher, captures the romance and reckless daring of the fifteen to twenty year period that was the golden age of flight, based on original documents, letters, logbooks of Earhart and her contemporaries and interviews of the family. |
$28. |
| 63. | (Amelia Earhart) LOVELL, Mary S. THE SOUND OF WINGS. The Life of Amelia Earhart. St Martin's Press. New York. 1989. US Edition; xxv, 420, index; e/p maps, frontis portrait, 73 b/w illusts., text maps; hardcover in dust jacket (fine condition); fine condition. Biography of the famed American aviator, her marriage to Putnam, Lindbergh's publisher, captures the romance and reckless daring of the fifteen to twenty year period that was the golden age of flight, based on original documents, letters, logbooks of Earhart and her contemporaries and interviews of the family. |
$26. |
| 64. | (Amelia Earhart) PUTNAM, George Palmer, Arranged by and foreword by. LAST FLIGHT BY AMELIA EARHART. Harcourt, Brace & Co. New York. 1937. First Edition; xvi, 226; e/p maps, 27 b/w photos, maps & figures; hardcover (spine sunned); (owner's name on back of frontis.) o/wise very good condition. Scarce. The classic account of the last, fateful, around-the-world flight by America's foremost woman aviator, remains one of the most moving and absorbing adventure stories of all time, told with engaging humour, modesty and charm. Out-of-print. |
$35. |
| 65. | (Amelia Earhart) PUTNAM, George Palmer, Arranged by and foreword by. LAST FLIGHT BY AMELIA EARHART. Harcourt, Brace & Co. New York. 1937. First Edition; xvi, 226; e/p maps, 27 b/w photos, maps & figures; hardcover (spine slightly sunned); (3 owner's names on e/p) o/wise very good condition. Scarce. The classic account of the last, fateful, around-the-world flight by America's foremost woman aviator, remains one of the most moving and absorbing adventure stories of all time, told with engaging humour, modesty and charm. Out-of-print. |
$35. |
| 66. | (Amelia Earhart) RICH, Doris L. With a Foreword by Jeana Yeager. AMELIA EARHART. A Biography. Dell Publishing. New York. 1991 [first published by the Smithsonian 1989]. xiii, 321, index; 15 b/w illusts.; cardcover; very good condition. Doris Rich evokes the grit of Amelia Earhart's personality and the hair-raising atmosphere of pioneering aviation, a look at the woman behind the legend, thoroughly researched yet eminently readable. |
$25. |
| 67. | (Amelia Earhart) RICH, Doris L. With a Foreword by Jeana Yeager. AMELIA EARHART. A Biography. Dell Publishing. New York. 1991 [first published by the Smithsonian 1989]. xiii, 321, index; 15 b/w illusts.; cardcover; (water damage) o/wise good condition. Doris Rich evokes the grit of Amelia Earhart's personality and the hair-raising atmosphere of pioneering aviation, a look at the woman behind the legend, thoroughly researched yet eminently readable. |
$15. |
| 68. | AMERICAN AIRLINES ROUTE MAP. American Airlines. [c. 1970]. very good condition. Folding colour map from the period when American Airlines serviced the South Pacific, one side the continental United States and Caribbean Islands, the second side the Pacific, includes routes for: the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Croix, Aruba, Curacao, Haiti. |
$12. |
| 69. | AMUNDSEN, Ronald and Lincoln Ellsworth. THE FIRST FLIGHT ACROSS THE POLAR SEA. With additional chapters by Joh Hover, J.J. Riiser-Larsen, Gustav Amundsen, Finn Malmgren and B. L. Gottwaldt. Hutchinson & Co. London. [c. 1926]. 274; 39 illusts. and chart; hardcover (rebound); (foxing, 13 plates retipped with tape, in one case obliterating some of the text and in others making it difficult to fully open the page) poor condition, but rare. Includes: plans and preparations, members of the expedition, across the Polar Sea, Air-navigation, the voyage, why we chose an airship, equipment, weather and weather warnings during the Polar flight. |
$110. |
| 70. | AUSTIN, Alan and Anthony Dicks. GREAT FIGHTING PLANES. An Outstanding Collection of 50 Classic Flighting Aircraft. Chancellor Press. London. 1992 [first published 1985]. 207, index; fully illustrated with full colour paintings of the planes and close-up details of features, line drawings and schematic drawings; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; mint condition. The narrative that accompanies these aircraft, describes the special character of each plane and the skill of the engineers who built them, the pilots who tested and flew them in aerial combat, supplemented by drawings and specification boxes. |
$35. |
| 71. | AUSTRALIA, AIR BOARD MANUAL OF AIR NAVIGATION VOLUME I. For Official Use. Copy No. 2. Air Publication 1234. A. H. Pettifer, Acting Govt. Printer. No Place. 1941 Edition; 326, index; (frontis missing) 233 figures, charts and diagrams; original boards (corners bumped and boards soiled); o/wise good condition. Includes log of amendments, being tipped in or written by hand, mathematics and importance to the Air Navigator, maps and charts and their use and conventions, magnetism and compasses, wireless direction finding, tactical navigation, ground organisation. |
$30. |
| 72. | AUSTRALIA, DEPARTMENT OF AVIATION. Prepared by. AVIATION RETROSPECT. From Civil Aviation Branch to Department of Aviation. Australian Government Publishing Service. Canberra. 1985. First Edition; 29; 14 b/w illusts.; cardcover; fine condition. Includes: creation of the Civil Aviation Branch, the years of the Civil Aviation Branch, the post-war years, the combined Department of Transport, international relations. |
$15. |
| 73. | AUSTRALIA, DEPARTMENT OF AVIATION. Prepared by. THE GIRLS WERE UP THERE TOO. Australian Women in Aviation. Australian Government Publishing Service. Canberra. 1986. First Edition; 39, bibliog.; 24 b/w photos; cardcover; fine condition. Includes: early women pilots, register of early Australian women pilots, Amy Johnson first woman to fly solo from England to Australia, short essays on Australian women pilots, the war years, post-war and the fifties, up to the 80's, glider pilots, hang-gliders, parachutists, balloonists. |
$15. |
| 74. | AVERY, D., Editor. THE CONCISE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF FIGHTERS OF WORLD WAR II. Gallery Books. New York. 1989. 46; fully illustrated in colour; hardcover in dust jacket; very good condition. Contains examples of the fighters which faced each other during World War II, each example is fully illustrated and accompanied by complete specifications. |
$16. |
| 75. | BACKUS, Jean L. LETTERS FROM AMELIA 1901-1937. An Intimate Portrait of Amelia Earhart. Beacon Press. Boston. 1982. 253; 26 b/w illusts.; hardcover in (chipped) dust jacket; very good condition. Biography, based upon more than one hundred letters from the legendary pilot to her mother, portraying the remarkable evolution from child to the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo, amid these captivating letters and photographs the author skilfully weaves together Earhart's story. |
$24. |
| 76. | BACKUS, Jean L. LETTERS FROM AMELIA 1901-1937. An Intimate Portrait of Amelia Earhart. Beacon Press. Boston. 1982. 253; 26 b/w illusts.; hardcover in (chipped, corner clipped) dust jacket; (half of front endpaper missing) o/wise good condition. Biography, based upon more than one hundred letters from the legendary pilot to her mother, portraying the remarkable evolution from child to the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo, amid these captivating letters and photographs the author skilfully weaves together Earhart's story. |
$19. |
| 77. | BALFE, John. AND FAR FROM HOME. Flying RAAF Transports in the Pacific War and After. Macmillan. Melbourne. 1985. First Edition; viii, 184, index; 43 photos, e/p maps; hardcover in dust jacket; very good condition (owner's bookstamp and signature on e/p). The recollections of an RAAF squadron commander includes New Guinea, Japan, China. |
$23. |
| 78. | BARTON, Charles. HOWARD HUGHES AND HIS FLYING BOAT. Aero Publishers. Fallbrook, CA. 1982. 272, index; e/p illusts., b/w text photos; hardcover in dust jacket; (minor bruise to d/j) o/wise very good condition. Very Scarce. For the first time large numbers of former Hughes employees and close associates talk about their famous boss, this is more than the story of the world's largest airplane, it is the story of Hughes the aviator and designer of unusual airlplanes. |
$45. |
| 79. | BEEDE, John. THEY HOSED THEM OUT. A Story of Australian Air Gunners in the Royal Air Force. Australasian Book Society. Sydney. 1965. First Edition; 234; hardcover in (bruised) dust jacket; good condition. Australian bomber command World War II European Theatre, a personal account of an air gunner, the author sets out to show the shattering consequences of war, laced with humorous incidents and anecdotes. |
$35. |
| 80. | BENNETT, John. FIGHTER NIGHTS 456 Squadron RAAF. Banner Books. 1995. First Edition; 214, nominal roll; 105 photos; hardcover in mint dust jacket; mint condition. Unit history of the 456 Squadron RAAF. This is the story of the only Australian night fighter squadron. The members of 456 had come to help Britain like their fathers in 1914-18. they fought a war on the leading edge of technology, the likes of which were not experienced by their colleagues in the Pacific War. Covers the history of the development of aerial interception. |
$49. |
| 81. | BERGER, Carl. B29 THE SUPERFORTRESS. Ballantine Books. New York. 1970. Ballantine's Illustrated Weapons History of World War II Book No 17. 160; fully illustrated with b/w photos and technical drawings; cardcover; A5 format; near fine condition. Includes: origins, B-29 development, planning the bombing of Japan 1940-1943, the first B-29 strike against Japan, the air campaign out of China, B-29 strikes from the Marianas, support missions and urban area incendiary raids. |
$22. |
| 82. | BERRY, David. TALES FROM THE CREWROOM. With Cartoons by 'Holly". Osprey Aerospace. London. 1990. First Edition; 103; cartoons; cardcover; mint condition.Features fifty rib-tickling stories about the funny side of RAF flying illustrated by Britain's best known aviation cartoonist. |
$34. |
| 83. | BIRTLES, Philip. MOSQUITO. A Pictorial History of the DH98. Jane's Publishing. London. 1980. 192; fully illustrated with b/w photos; hardcover in dust jacket; near fine condition. Very Scarce. One of the most versatile and deadly aircraft of World War II, de Havilland's Mosquito, the author includes many revealing episodes form the construction of the prototype and has interviewed personalities involved in the design, production and operation of the aircraft, includes photographs not previously published. |
$48. |
| 84. | BOWYER, Chaz. THE AGE OF THE BIPLANE. Bison Books. Greenwich, CT. 1983. Reprint of 1981. 191, bibliog., index; over 250 photographs many in full col.; hardcover in d/w; large format; very good condition. The author is internationally recognized as a leading authority on British aircraft and on the men and women who flew them, he traces the golden age of the biplane, the Camel, Nieuport, Fokker, Albatross, Curtiss, Boeing, Gloster and a hundred others, their advantages and faults, importance in military and commercial aviation progress. |
$45. |
| 85. | BOYINGTON, Col. Gregory, USMC Retired. BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP. Putnam's. New York. 1958. Eighth Impression. 384; e/p illusts., frontis photo portrait; hardcover in (chipped) dust jacket; (owner's bookplate on small title page) o/wise good condition. The author had resigned from the US Marines to fly with the Flying Tigers in China where he shot down 6 Japanese planes, having left the corps, the marines wouldn't take him back, so the Navy sent him to the South Pacific where he was given a squadron of misfits, this is their heroic story. |
$35. |
| 86. | BOYLE, Andrew. NO PASSING GLORY. The Full & Authentic Biography of Group Captain Cheshire. Collins. London. 1955. 384, index; frontis portrait; hardcover in (soiled) dust jacket; good condition. Scarce. A biography that reconciles the man with the legend, RAF Group Captain Leonard Cheshire won the V.C., a triple D.S.O. and D.F.C. with bomber Command during the Second World War, his last war-time mission was to Nagasaki as the British Prime Minister's special observer. |
$25. |
| 87. | BREARLEY, Maurice N. BORN TO FLY. The Story of Wayne Blackmore. Rigby. Adelaide. 1981. 136; b/w illustrations; hardcover in dust jacket; very good condition. Biography of a young Australian whose dream was to fly, he was accepted as an Air Force cadet, he built a tow glider and crashed becoming a paraplegic, he still had the spirit to achieve his ambition and took up hang-gliding setting the record for the longest hang-gliding flight in Australia, later his life ended in a hang-gliding crash into the sea. |
$20. |
| 88. | BRIMSON, Samuel. THE AIRLINES OF THE WORLD. Dreamweaver Books. Sydney. 1985. 255, index; fully illustrated in b/w & col.; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; very good condition. The story of commercial aviation, of the airlines, of people, Boeing, Fysh, Rickenbacker, Hughes and many others, of companies Douglas, Lockheed, Fokker, Vickers, Stinson, Junkers, Bristol, Hawker Siddeley as well as many smaller companies. |
$35. |
| 89. | BRIMSON, Samuel. FLYING THE ROYAL MAIL. The History of Australia's Airlines. Dreamweaver Books. Sydney. 1984. Reprinted 1986. 224, index; fully illustrated with b/w and col. historical photographs, e/p illusts.; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; mint condition. The story of Australia's airlines together with its heroes and villains from the pioneer days just after the Great War of 1914-1918 to the present, including some New Guinea services. |
$35. |
| 90. | BROGDEN, Stanley. AUSTRALIA'S TWO-AIRLINE POLICY. Melbourne University Press. Carlton, VIC. 1968. xiv, 235, index; 19 b/w plates, map; cardcover; (owners name and date on e/p) o/wise good condition. An account of the Australian domestic airline system where the industry was shared almost equally between two large operators, one from the private sector and one a public corporation. |
$20. |
| 91. | BUDDEE, Paul. AIRWAYS. The Call of the Sky. Lothian Publishing. Melbourne. 1978. Australian Life Series. 117, bibliog., index; fully illustrated in b/w with photos & maps; cardcover; A5 format; fine condition. Traces the story of flight in Australia from the very earliest days of Lawrence Hargrave's aerodynamic research in the late nineteenth century to the landing of Concorde in Australia. Scarce. |
$20. |
| 92. | BYRD, Rear Admiral Richard E. EXPLORING WITH BYRD. Episodes from an Adventurous Life, Compiled and Revised by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Putnam's. New York. 1937. 241; e/p maps, 21 b/w illusts.; hardcover in (ragged) dust jacket; (foxing opposite all plate pages) o/wise very good condition. Rare. Includes: education of a pilot, flight to the North Pole with Floyd Bennett as pilot on one of the most hazardous flights of all time, flight across the Atlantic, fog over Paris, flight to the South Pole, presenting the most interesting episodes of the Admiral's career. |
$75. |
| 93. | CAMPBELL, Christy. AIR WAR PACIFIC. The Fight for Supremacy in the Far East: 1937 to 1945. Crescent Books. New York. 1990. 176, index; 138 colour and 84 b/w illusts.; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; fine condition. Includes the fierce combat over China and Manchuria and toward 1937, Soviet air forces, covers in detail the struggle for supremacy between the United States and Japan, with a series of profiles detailing American, British and Japanese combat aircraft with their specifications and performance, well printed with excellent colour paintings of the aircraft. |
$35. |
| 94. | CARROLL, Brian. AUSTRALIAN AVIATORS. An Illustrated History. Cassell. North Ryde, NSW. 1980. 170, index; fully illustrated in b/w; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; (two spots of foxing on back of small title page and on title page) o/wise very good condition. From Dr Blands 1851 proposal to build his 'atmotic' ship to modern aviation, includes: Hargrave, Australia's World War one pilots, the founding of the RAAF, Kingsford Smith's historic flights, the birth of Qantas, the jet age. |
$30. |
| 95. | CASAMASSA, Jack V. and Ralph D. Bent. JET AIRCRAFT POWER SYSTEMS. McGraw Hill. New York. 1965. Third Edition; 408, index; fully illustrated in b/w with photos and technical drawings; hardcover; large format; no d/j, a few spots of foxing on endpapers, o/wise very good condition.Written to bring new information on gas-turbine engines to the student of aircraft powerplants and to reflect the experience gained in the use of gas-turbine engines for aircraft during the time that such engines have been employed in regular commercial use. |
$29. |
| 96. | CASEY, Louis s. and John Batchelor. THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SEAPLANES & FLYING BOATS. Hamlyn. London. 1980 [first published 1979]. 128, index; fully illustrated in b/w & col. with historic photos, schematic drawings and colour paintings. hardcover in dust jacket; A4 format; near fine condition. A comprehensive and compelling survey of the fascinating aircraft that have captured the imagination since the first flight off the coast of France in 1910. |
$24. |
| 97. | THE CATHAY PACIFIC PICTORIAL HISTORY OF AIRCRAFT. Unicorn Books. Hong Kong. 1979. 119, index; fully illustrated in colour with photos and drawings; illustrated hardcover; large format; fine condition.Very Scarce. Includes: the beginnings, fighter aircraft 1914-1938, pioneer passenger airliners, war in the air 1939-1945, bombers and military transports, airliners in the jet age, helecopters, the story of Cathay Pacific. |
$39. |
| 98. | CHANT, Christopher and John Batchelor. PISTON-ENGINED AIRLINERS, SEVENTY YEARS OF AIR TRANSPORTATION. Phoebus. London. 1980. First Edition; 64; profusely illustrated with b/w and colour photographs and line drawings; stiffened pictorial cardcover; A4; very good condition. Chapters include - blazing the trail, adolescent airliners, the era of the DC3, the four-engined ailiner appears and the heyday. |
$25. |
| 99. | CHANT, Christopher, Editor. Boeing 707. Super Profile Series. Haynes Publishing Group. Yoevil, Somerset. 1983. 56, specifications of models; fully illustrated in b/w and col.; hardcover (chip on corner of back cover); o/wise very good condition. Good photos with short essays on ten models. |
$25. |
| 100. | CHRISTY, Joe and Page Shamburger. SUMMON THE STARS. The Advance of Aviation from the Second World War. A.S. Barnes and Co. South Brunswick. 1970. 434, index; over 375 b/w photos; hardcover in (chafed) dust jacket; large format; near fine condition. The story of America's airmen and aircraft both military and civilian since 1939, from the beginning of World War II to the landing on the moon, the authors offer their own evidence as to who was to blame for Pearl Harbor and assess the effectiveness of former Defense Secretary McNamara's cost effectiveness programs. |
$34. |
| 101. | CLASSIC WINGS DOWNUNDER Volume 5 No. 2. The Journal Dedicated to Vintage and Warbird Aircraft in Australia and New Zealand. Classic Wings Downunder Ltd. Blenheim, NZ. 1998. 58; fully illustrated in b/w and colour; cardcover; fine condition.Official magazine of the Australian and New Zealand Warbirds Associations, includes: Tiger Moth revisited, Kittyhawk conquest, classic wings aircraft sales, Russian Revelation. |
$16. |
| 102. | COBHAM, Sir Alan. AUSTRALIA AND BACK. With Foreword by the Rt. Hon. S.M. Bruce Prime Minister of Australia. A. & C. Black. London. 1927. 124; front e/p map, b/w photos; hardcover (rebound using the original illustrated cloth on the front, new back e/p); (water stain in the bottom margin through most of the book) o/wise good condition. A personal account of the first flight from England to Australia and back with a seaplane. |
$45. |
| 103. | COHEN, Stan. EAST WIND RAIN: A Pictorial History of the Pearl Harbour Attack. 50th Anniversary Edition. Pictorial Histories. Missoula, Montana. 1992. Second Printing Revised. x, 298, appendix; numerous b/w illusts. pictorial cardcover; fine condition. A pictorial history and outline of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour during World War II. |
$19. |
| 104. | COLLIER, Basil. JAPANESE AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR II. With Colour Photographs. Sidgwick & Jackson. London. 1979. First Edition; 144, index; fully illustrated; hardcover in dust jacket; near fine condition. Numerous references to, and photographs of, Japanese aircraft in New Guinea and Pacific and South East Asia locations. Very scarce- much sought after by military aviation book collectors. |
$45. |
| 105. | COMPASS. [Amelia Earhart article featured] a Magazine of the Sea, volume LVII. Mobil International. New York. 1987. No. l. 40; fully illustrated in b/w & col.; cardcover; very good condition. Includes articles on Amelia Earhart's last flight, the Ansett airline story, sand dunes, origins of nautical terms, the romance of tea. |
$20. |
| 106. | CONTINENTAL AIRLINES MICRONESIA. Continental Airlines. [18]; fully illustrated with colour drawings and fold out route map; cardcover; near fine condition. Promotional brochure used to introduce the airlines Micronesia service. |
$16. |
| 107. | COOKE, John. WORKING IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA 1931-1946. Lara Publications. Upper Mt Gravatt, Brisbane. 1983. First Edition; viii, 360; 71 photos, 15 text maps, e/p maps; hardcover in dust jacket; mint condition, signed by the author. Very scarce. Includes, Morobe Goldfields, Recruiting, Guinea Airways and MV Gnair, New Guinea Volunteer Rifle Unit and War, 2nd Australian Water Transport Group and ANGAU (Australia New Guinea Administrative Unit) 1942-46, many rare photos not published elsewhere especially of 1930's Guinea Airways aircraft, signed by the author. Out of print. |
$24. |
| 108. | COTTON, Squadron Leader M.C. 'Bush', DFC, OAM. HURRICANES OVER BURMA [17 Fighter Squadron RAF] Including the Memoirs of Wing Commander 'Bunny' Stone, DFC. Crawford. 1995. First Edition; vii, 357, appendices, index; map, b/w photos, 33 line drawings; hardcover in mint dust jacket (protected); mint condition (new). Scarce out-of-print. Hurricanes Over Burma is two books. The first part by Australian pilot 'Bush' cotton, recounts two years and nine months that he spent in the Burma-India theatre, eventually commanding No 17 Fighter Squadron RAF Part two is by Squadron Leader Bunny Stone and his personal account of his three-year tour with the RAF in the Far East including the first Burma Campaign. |
$33. |
| 109. | COULTHARD-CLARK, Chris. THE RAAF IN VIETNAM. Australian Air Involvement in the Vietnam War 1962-1975. Allen & Unwin in association with the Australian War Memorial. St Leonards, NSW. 1995. First Edition; xxi, 412, bibliog., index; e/p maps, 6 text maps, fold-out map, illustrated with b/w photos; hardcover in mint dust jacket; mint condition. Out-of-Print, very scarce. The Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948-1975 Volume 4 (of 7 volumes). Begins with earliest moves to attain a Royal Australian Air Force presence in South Vietnam in 1962, it deals with the steady commitment of squadrons and specialist personnel from 1964 until the commencement of the general withdrawal of Australian forces in 1971-72 and the RAAF's brief return during the republic's final days in 1975. |
$57. |
| 110. | DAVIS, Pedr. CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH. Smithy, the World's Greatest Aviator. Lansdowne Press. Sydney. [first published by Paul Hamlyn 1977]. 157, index; map, fully illustrated with b/w historical photos; hardcover in dust jacket; A4 format; very good condition. Biography of the great Australian airman, Smithy pioneered more long distance routes than any pilot in history, the author has researched meticulously the many different facets of Smithy's life and character, from long distance records to barnstormer to co-founding Australian National Airways. |
$30. |
| 111. | DAVIS, Pedr. CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH. Smithy, the World's Greatest Aviator. Paul Hamlyn. Sydney. 1977. First Edition; 157, index; map, fully illustrated with b/w historical photos; hardcover leather bound with gilt titles; A4 format; (small chip in ink on front and back endpapers) o/wise very good condition. Biography of the great Australian airman, Smithy pioneered more long distance routes than any pilot in history, the author has researched meticulously the many different facets of Smithy's life and character, from long distance records to barnstormer to co-founding Australian National Airways. |
$35. |
| 112. | DAVIS, Pedr. CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH. Smithy, the World's Greatest Aviator. Paul Hamlyn. Sydney. 1977. First Edition; 157, index; map, fully illustrated with b/w historical photos; hardcover in dust jacket; A4 format; very good condition. Biography of the great Australian airman, Smithy pioneered more long distance routes than any pilot in history, the author has researched meticulously the many different facets of Smithy's life and character, from long distance records to barnstormer to co-founding Australian National Airways. |
$35. |
| 113. | DELVE, Ken. COMBAT MISSIONS FROM THE COCKPIT. Arms and Armour. London. 1990. 128; fully illustrated in b/w and col.; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; fine condition. Royal air Force, takes the reader from the briefing room to the cockpit, on a mission, and back, an insight into today's hi-tech air forces includes tactical transport, support helicopter, anti-submarine warfare and the spectacle of the air display with a marvellous range of aircraft well reproduced on art paper, the Harrier, Hercules, Hawk, Jaguar, Chinook, Tornado, Nimrods and many more. |
$30. |
| 114. | DEXTER, David. THE NEW GUINEA OFFENSIVES. Australia in the War of 1939-1945 Series 1 (Army) Volume VI. Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 1961. First Edition; xx, 851, index; 68 illusts., 13 maps, 98 sketch maps and diagrams; hardcover in (full colour reproduction) dust jacket (near fine condition, protected); very good condition. Very scarce and much sought after. Describes how the Australian Army together with American Naval and Air Forces drove the Japanese out of most of Mainland Australian New Guinea in 1943 and early 1944. It also includes the concurrent operations of the American Army and amphibious forces in the Pacific. |
$49. |
| 115. | DICK, Jerry edited by. PARADISE PLUS: A SELECTION OF STORIES FROM AIR NIUGINI'S IN-FLIGHT MAGAZINES. Pacific Publications in association with Air Niugini. Sydney. 1979. First Edition; 144; fully illustrated in colour; hardcover in fine dust jacket (protected); large format; fine condition. Very Scarce. Articles of anthropological and natural history interest from the award winning in-flight magazine of Air Niugini (the national airline of Papua New Guinea). Very scarce. |
$40. |
| 116. | DRENDEL, Lou. AIRCRAFT OF THE VIETNAM WAR. A Pictorial Review. Aero Publishers. 1980. 64; fully illustrated in b/w, one double spread colour plate; hardcover (corners bumped); large format; very good condition. Short essay followed by photos with detailed captions. |
$19. |
| 117. | EAMES, Jim. THE SEARCHERS AND THEIR ENDLESS QUEST FOR LOST AIRCREW IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. UQP Press. St. Lucia, Qld. 1999 First Edition; ix, 237; 53 b/w photographs; pictorial cardcovers; mint condition (new). Just released. More than a thousand Australian and American airmen remain unaccounted for at the war's end in 1945 - solving the puzzle of their disappearance was the task of the intrepid Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) searcher unit. Headed by tenacious Squadron Leader Keith Rundle, the RAAF's search and recovery party covered thousands of kilometres by air, by sea and on foot through often hostile and trackless country seeking clues and their disappearance. Episodes reveal the dark side of the war with Japan, uncovering the hidden graves of massacred airmen. Includes the detailed story of the crash of the US Air Force C47 "Flying Dutchman" in New Guinea on 10 November 1942. |
$39. |
| 118. | EATHER, Capt. Charles Chic. AIRPORT OF THE NINE DRAGONS. My Approach - Recollections of Aviation at and around Hong Kong's International Airport. ChingChic Publishers. Surfers Paradise, QLD. 1997 [first published 1996]. xviii, 254, index; b/w photos; hardcover in dust jacket; mint condition.Signed by the Author. Chic Eather is well qualified to relate the aviation history of Hong Kong as a pilot who spent nearly 30 years and 25,0000 hours of joustling the elements and the treacherous approaches to this fabled airport. |
$47. |
| 119. | EATHER, Capt. Charles (Chic). WE FLEW IN BURMA. A Story of Flying in Burma, with Cathay Pacific Airways and Union of Burma Myanma Airways. Chingchic. Surfers Paradise, Queensland. 1993. First Edition; x, 244; profusely illustrated with b/w photographs of aircraft and personalities; pictorial cardcover in dust jacket; mint condition (signed by the author).Very scarce, privately printed. Reminiscences of Capt. Charles (chic) Eather, an Australian civil pilot, now retired to the Gold Coast Australia, He was one of the Union of Burma Airways star pilots who came to love Burma and the Burmese, and that love explains why he decided to write this most intriguing and evocative book. Some excellent photographs of DC3's. "More than just a story of the growth of Cathay Pacific....it is also an account of the growth of civil aviation in Southeast Asia and the development of modern Hong Kong " |
$39. |
| 120. | EATHER, Charles. SYD'S PIRATES. A Story of an Airline. [Cathay Pacific]. Durnmount. Sydney. 1983. First Edition; [viii], 342, glossary, bibliog.; 2 e/p maps, 6 text maps, 12 figures, fully illust. with photos; hardcover in fine dust jacket (protected); fine condition, signed by the aujthor. Scarce. The history of Cathay Pacific Airways, written with warmth, humour and sadness and includes such famous events as the world's first skyjacking and the shooting down of one of the company's planes by communist fighters. The author was a pilot with Cathay Pacific and has written 3 books on aviation in Hong Kong, Burma and South East Asia. He now lives in Australia. |
$29. |
| 121. | EDDY, Paul, Elaine Potter and Bruce Page. DESTINATION DISASTER. Hart-Davis, MacGibbon. London. 1976. x, 435, appendices, index; 85 b/w photos, text figures; hardcover in (mellowed) dust jacket; very good condition. The Sunday Times Insight Team examine the March 1974 DC10 crash in a forest outside of Paris with the loss of 346 lives, a story of an industry and of that industry's failures and successes in the guarding of human life. |
$35. |
| 122. | ENDRES, Gunter, William Green, Gordon Swanborough, John Mowinski. MODERN COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT. Salamander Books. London. 1998. First Edition; 216, index; numerous colour photos and plane specifications; pictorial cardcover in pictorial dust jacket; mint condition [new]. This new full-colour encyclopedia provides a detailed analysis of the technology now being applied to commercial aircraft, a comprehensive directory of all the major passenger-carrying airliners in service and under development, and succinct data profiles of 100 of the world's major airlines. |
$35. |
| 123. | ENDRES. Gunther G. WORLD AIRLINE FLEETS 1984/5. The worlds leading Airline Fleet Yearbook from information compiled and coordinated by the Aviation Data Centre. The Aviation Data Centre Ltd. Middlesex. 1983. 592; b/w photos aircraf, adv; cardcover illustrated colour in protected covering; near fine condition.Accepted worldwide as the standard source of data relating to all the world's airlines. |
$29. |
| 124. | FAY, John. THE HELICOPTER AND HOW IT FLIES. Pitman. London. 1964 [first published 1954, revised 1957]. x, 105, index; 112 figures; hardcover in (sunned) dust jacket; A5 format; good condition. Explains all the fundamental features of rotary-wing flight without resorting to mathematical formulae, written in a simple straightforward manner and well illustrated. |
$15. |
| 125. | FIRKINS, Peter. STRIKE AND RETURN. The Unit History of 460 RAAF Heavy Bomber Squadron. [first published 1964]. Reprint. hardcover; mint condition. Details the World War II exploits of a famous Australian squadron flying out of Britain, the author served with the squadron and later became an author and historian. |
$34. |
| 126. | FLANAGAN, Lt. Gen. Edward M., Jr. THE LOS BANOS RAID. The 11th Airborne Jumps at Dawn. Presidio. Novato, California. 1986. xi, 276, Internment Camp Roll, bibliog., index; illustrations, maps; hardcover in dust jacket; fine condition. Recounts how paratroopers liberated over 2000 civilian internees from a Japanese prisoner of war camp without casualties. |
$35. |
| 127. | FLANAGAN, Lt. Gen. E.M., Jr. THE ANGELS. A History of the 11th Airborne Division. Presidio. Novato, California. (1989). xiv, 422, bibliog., index; illustrations, maps; hardcover in dust jacket; fine condition. Scarce. Includes chapters on New Guinea, Manila, Okinawa, and occupation of Japan. |
$45. |
| 128. | FLIGHTPATH. Australia's International Aviation Magazine. Volume 3 Number 2. Weldon Young Productions. Willoughby, NSW. [1991]. 96; fully illustrated mainly in col.; illustrated wrappers; A4 format; fine condition. Includes: Vickers Viscount, Tigers over Temora, Mirage finale, Guadalcanal pictorial, Beauforts in Malaya, air war operations Darwin 1942. |
$20. |
| 129. | FLIGHTPATH. Australia's International Aviation Magazine. Volume 3 Number 1. Weldon Young Productions. Willoughby, NSW. [1991]. 96; fully illustrated mainly in col.; illustrated wrappers; A4 format; fine condition. Includes: Air Niugini, tropical tigers, Malta wrecks, Spitfire restoration, Canberra swansong. |
$20. |
| 130. | FLYING DOCTOR SERVICES AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT. Report of Seminar Held at Birmingham University 1969. Flying Doctor Development Service. Birmingham, UK. [1969]. 70; 26 b/w photos, 2 maps; cardcover; very good condition. Includes papers on: Zambian flying doctor service, training auxiliary health workers to solve the community health problems in rural Nigeria, child care in remote areas, two-way radios and light aircraft, the problem of operating aircraft in a flying doctor context, the problems of accounting and management in flying doctor and rural development services. |
$20. |
| 131. | FRAME, Tom. WHERE FATE CALLS : The HMAS Voyager Tragedy. Hodder & Stoughton. Sydney. 1992. First Edition; xxix, 447, bibliog.; 23 photos, 32 technical drawings; hardcover in dust jacket (mint condition, property); mint condition. Much sought after first edition. The author did his doctoral thesis on HMAS Voyager and as a serving naval officer wrote this account with full access to official naval and Royal Commission records into the tragic slicing of the Australian destroyer HMAS Voyager in two by the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne with the loss of 82 men. Australia's worst peacetime disaster. |
$34. |
| 132. | FRANCILLON, Rene J. VIETNAM. The War in the Air. Arch Cape Press. New York. 1987. First U.S. Edition; 255, index; 280 colour and 120 b/w illustrations; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; fine condition. Chronicles the history of this bloody conflict from the perspective of the aircraft involved from the first French aerial involvement to the final evacuation of Saigon, with descriptions of the tactics, developments, and actions that make this the most fascinating period of military aviation. |
$25. |
| 133. | FYSH, Hudson. QANTAS AT WAR. Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1968. First Edition; xii, 244, appendices, index; 44 illusts.; hardcover in (reproduction) dust jacket; (damp mark mainly confined to bottom margins, plates chipped in lower margin) o/wise a good reader's copy. Scarce. A civilian airline at war, chapters on bombing of Singapore, The Dili Story, Darwin, New Guinea, flying guns into Java, Japanese blitz on Broom Western Australia. |
$49. |
| 134. | FYSH, Hudson. QANTAS RISING: The Autobiography of the Flying Fysh. Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1966 [first published 1965]. xii, 296, index; 43 b/w illusts.; hardcover in dust jacket [protected]; (presentation book plate on front endpaper) o/wise very good condition. Very Scarce. This is the story of two young ex-servicemen who had nothing to do after World War I, so they founded one of the world's great airlines. The author writes pleasantly and informally, and readers will enjoy this book as much for its anecdotes of the author's life and its stories of adventure in the air as for its important contribution to Australian history. |
$61. |
| 135. | FYSH, Hudson. QANTAS RISING: The Autobiography of the Flying Fysh. Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1966 [first published 1965]. xii, 296, index; 43 b/w illusts.; hardcover in (reproduction) dust jacket [protected]; (new endpapers, foxing in the prelims, traces of library stamp) o/wise good condition. Very Scarce. This is the story of two young ex-servicemen who had nothing to do after World War I, so they founded one of the world's great airlines. The author writes pleasantly and informally, and readers will enjoy this book as much for its anecdotes of the author's life and its stories of adventure in the air as for its important contribution to Australian history. |
$60. |
| 136. | FYSH, Hudson. QANTAS RISING: The Autobiography of the Flying Fysh. Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1965. First Edition; xii, 296, index; 43 b/w illusts.; hardcover in dust jacket [protected]; very good condition. Very Scarce. This is the story of two young ex-servicemen who had nothing to do after World War I, so they founded one of the world's great airlines. The author writes pleasantly and informally, and readers will enjoy this book as much for its anecdotes of the author's life and its stories of adventure in the air as for its important contribution to Australian history. |
$65. |
| 137. | FYSH, Hudson. QANTAS RISING: The Autobiography of the Flying Fysh. Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1966 [first published 1965]. xii, 296, index; 43 b/w illusts.; hardcover in (reproduction) dust jacket [protected]; (new endpapers) o/wise very good condition. Very Scarce. This is the story of two young ex-servicemen who had nothing to do after World War I, so they founded one of the world's great airlines. The author writes pleasantly and informally, and readers will enjoy this book as much for its anecdotes of the author's life and its stories of adventure in the air as for its important contribution to Australian history. |
$62. |
| 138. | GILLETT, Ross. AUSTRALIAN AIR POWER. Celebrating 75 Years of the RAAF. The Book Company. Sydney. 1996. x, 214, bibliog., index; 37 col. and 300 b/w photos; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; very good condition. An encyclopedia of military aircraft flown by the Royal Australian Air Force since 1921, each aircraft is described in a short essay with data table, highlighting important dates, armament, specifications and performance, with well reproduced photos. |
$40. |
| 139. | GILLISON, Douglas. ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE 1939-1942. Australia in the War of 1939-1945 Series Three, AIR, Volume 1. Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 1962. First Edition; xiii, 786, appendices, index; 65 photos, 50 maps; hardcover in near fine dust jacket (protected); near fine condition. Very Scarce. Includes RAAF operations in Malaya, Singapore, Ambon, Sumatra, Burma, Timor, India, New Guinea, Fall of Rabaul, Coral Sea, Kokoda, Milne Bay, Buna, Sanananda, Wau and Bismarck Sea. |
$44. |
| 140. | GILLISON, Douglas. ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE 1939-1942. Australia in the War of 1939-1945 Series Three, AIR, Volume 1. Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 1962. First Edition; xiii, 786, appendices, index; 65 photos, 50 maps; hardcover in dust jacket (near fine protected); very good condition. Very Scarce. Very scarce. Includes RAAF operations in Malaya, Singapore, Ambon, Sumatra, Burma, Timor, India, New Guinea, Fall of Rabaul, Coral Sea, Kokoda, Milne Bay, Buna, Sanananda, Wau and Bismarck Sea. |
$40. |
| 141. | GILLISON, Douglas. ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE 1939-1942. Australia in the War of 1939-1945 Series Three, AIR, Volume 1. Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 1962. First Edition; xiii, 786, appendices, index; 65 photos, 50 maps; hardcover in dust jacket (near fine protected); near fine condition. Very Scarce. Very scarce. Includes RAAF operations in Malaya, Singapore, Ambon, Sumatra, Burma, Timor, India, New Guinea, Fall of Rabaul, Coral Sea, Kokoda, Milne Bay, Buna, Sanananda, Wau and Bismarck Sea. |
$42. |
| 142. | GLINES, Carroll and Wendell F. Moseley. THE DC-3 THE STORY OF THE DAKOTA. Andre Deutsch. London. 1967. 203, index; b/w photos; hardcover in dust jacket; (back of d/j, back cover, back endpaper damp marked) o/wise good condtion. The DC3 later to be christened the Dakota by the RAF, a history of the plane that outlasted not only its contemporaries but also many of the aeroplanes designed to replace it. |
$43. |
| 143. | GLINES, Carroll V. ATTACK ON YAMAMOTO. Orion. New York. 1990. xii, 240, bibliog., index; map, 18 illusts.; hardcover in dust jacket; mint condition. The remarkable story of the longest fighter intercept mission in history which culminated in the shooting down of Isoroku Yamamoto Commander and Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Pacific War. |
$30. |
| 144. | GLINES, Carroll V and Wendell F. Moseley. THE DC-3. The Story of a Fabulous Airplane. Lippincott Co. Philadelphia. 1966. Third Printing; 203, index; 53 b/w photos; hardcover (new endpapers); (RAAF Book Stamp, pages soiled) o/wise good condition. Very Scarce. A history of the most famous airplane in the world, includes anecdotal tales from around the world of the grand old lady of the skies accompanied by amazing photographs of the aircraft in war and peace. |
$28. |
| 145. | GLINES, Carroll V and Wendell F. Moseley. THE DC-3. David & Charles. London. 1979. First British Edition; 224, index; 58 b/w photos; hardcover in (reproduction) dust jacket; near fine condition. Very Scarce. A history of the most famous airplane in the world, includes anecdotal tales from around the world of the grand old lady of the skies accompanied by amazing photographs of the aircraft in war and peace. |
$30. |
| 146. | GLINES, Carroll V. Lieutenant Colonel, USAF. DOOLITTLE'S TOKYO RAIDERS. Van Nostrand Co. Princeton. 1964. xiv, 447, appendices, index; text photos and maps; hardcover in (chipped) dust jacket; very good condition (new endpapers, small library stamps). Rare. The events aboard the bombers are graphically related by a member of each crew who tells in his own words his experiences, thoughts and emotions from take-off to bail-out or crash landing in China, including capture, imprisonment or escape. |
$40. |
| 147. | GOODE, John. WOOD WIRE AND FABRIC. A Saga of Australian Flying. Lansdowne Press. Melbourne. 1968. 108, bibliog., index; fully illustrated in b/w; hardcover in (bruised and clipped) dust jacket; good condition. Very Scarce. The story of Australian aviation written for young people by an expert in the field, illustrated with an outstanding collection of rare historic photographs. |
$30. |
| 148. | GOODENOUGH, Simon. WAR MAPS. World War II, from September 1939 to August 1945, Air, Sea and Land, Battle by Battle. Peerage Books. London. 1988 [first published 1982]. 192, index; fully illustrated with 270 colour maps and over 150 photographs; hardcover in dust jacket with protective covering. large format; very good condition. An informative text and captions accompany the maps and photographs which detail the crucial land, sea and air confrontations of the Second World War, giving dispositions of men and equipment over the course of a battle or campaign, includes the Pacific War. |
$17. |
| 149. | GREEN, William and Gordon Swanborough. FLYING COLOURS. Featuring over 1300 military aircraft markings and colour schemes. Salamander Books. London 1997. 208 well illustrated photographs and drawings; hardcover in mint dust jacket; mint condition. Featuring over 100 different types of aircraft and their many variants, Flying Colours is a fascinating survey of aircraft markings throughout more than 80 years of aerial warfare. Over 1300 extensively researched and superbly illustrated drawings depict a vast range of colour schemes, camouflage markings and heraldic emblems and insignias, with detailed descriptions of each aircraft including the identification of squadron, unit, theatre and, in some instances, even the pilot's name. |
$28. |
| 150. | GREEN, William and Gordon Swanborough. FLYING COLOURS. Featuring over 1300 military aircraft markings and colour schemes. Lansdowne Press. Sydney. 1981. 208; well illustrated colour photographs and drawings; hardcover in dust jacket; near fine condition. Very scarce edition. Featuring over 100 different types of aircraft and their many variants, Flying Colours is a fascinating survey of aircraft markings throughout more than 80 years of aerial warfare. Over 1300 extensively researched and superbly illustrated drawings depict a vast range of colour schemes, camouflage markings and heraldic emblems and insignias, with detailed descriptions of each aircraft including the identification of squadron, unit, theatre and, in some instances, even the pilot's name. |
$29. |
| 151. | GREGORY, Barry and John Batchelor. AIRBORNE WARFARE 1918-1945. Books for Pleasure. Sydney. 1979 [first published by Phoebus Publishing 1978]. 128; fully illustrated with photos, maps and paintings in b/w and col.; hardcover in dust jacket; A4 format; (stained on top margin of 4 pages) o/wise very good condition. When the Germans demonstrated how airborne troops could achieve startling victories in Norway, Denmark, Holland and Crete the allies were quick to make similar responses, Barry Gregory describes the growth of these airborne campaigns as well as the planes and equipment used. |
$25. |
| 152. | GRIFFITH, Hubert. R.A.F. IN RUSSIA. Hammond, Hammond & Co. London. [c. 1942]. 96; 15 b/w photos; hardcover; (corners bumped, foxing on e/p, top of spine bleached) o/wise good condition. The author kept a diary while he was stationed in Russia with the R.A.F. during World War II. |
$24. |
| 153. | GRIFFITH, Thomas E. Jr. MacARTHUR'S AIRMAN. General George C. Kenney and the War in the Southwest Pacific. University Press of Kansas. Kansas, U.S.A. 1998. First Edition; xiv, 338, index, bibliography; 3 area maps; hardcover illustrated in protective covering; mint condition.Very scarce, excellent and fascinating operational history that raises Kenney to the front rank among American commanders in the Pacific War. |
$39. |
| 154. | GUNN, John. THE DEFEAT OF DISTANCE. QANTAS 1919-1939. University of Queensland Press. St Lucia, Brisbane. 1985. First Edition; xvi, 400, bibliog. index; 91 b/w photos, e/p maps; hardcover in dust jacket (fine condition, protected); fine condition. Very Scarce. The author has employed the disciplines and techniques of narrative in this closely documented work to make this a most readable account of the early history of Qantas the second oldest airline in the world. Out of print. |
$38. |
| 155. | GUNN, John. THE DEFEAT OF DISTANCE. QANTAS 1919-1939. University of Queensland Press. St Lucia, Brisbane. 1988. Paperback (cardcover) reprint of first edition; xvi, 400, bibliog. index; 91 b/w photos, e/p maps; cardcover; fine condition. Very Scarce. The author has employed the disciplines and techniques of narrative in this closely documented work to make this a most readable account of the early history of Qantas the second oldest airline in the world. Out of print. |
$19. |
| 156. | GUNN, John. HIGH CORRIDORS. QANTAS 1954-1970. University of Queensland Press. St. Lucia, Brisbane. 1988. First Edition; xvi, 468, index; 95 b/w photos, illustrated endpapers; hardcover in mint dust jacket (protected); mint condition. Very Scarce. The third volume of the award-winning history of Qantas, the author details the political as well as technological machinations of this period with great skill, includes numerous references to QANTAS in New Guinea and the Pacific Islands. |
$41. |
| 157. | GUNSTON, Bill. THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE WORLD'S ROCKETS & MISSILES. Leisure Books. London. 1979. 264, index; fully illustrated with photos and schematic illustrations mainly in colour; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; bonus liftout missing, o/wise near fine condition.A comprehensive technical directory and history of the military guided missile systems of the 10th century. |
$39. |
| 158. | GWYNN-JONES, Terry. THE AIR RACERS. Aviation's Golden Era 1909-1936. Lansdowne Press. Sydney. 1983. First Edition; 242, index; fully illustrated with schematic drawings, maps and photos, over 190 of which have been hand coloured; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; (signed by the author) fine condition. The story of aviations' golden age of air racing 1909-1936 which was the catalysts for the development of the aeroplane as a machine of war and later as an acceptable form of public transportation, examines race routes, records established and the wondrous and sometimes cantankerous machines and the aviators who flew them. |
$40. |
| 159. | GWYNN-JONES, Terry. WINGS ACROSS THE PACIFIC. The Courageous Aviators who Challenged and Conquered the Greatest Ocean. Orion Books. New York. 1991. First Edition; x, 256, index; fully illustrated in b/w with more than 200 photos, maps; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; mint condition. The author, himself a pilot, gives an account of extraordinary characters including Charles Kingsford-Smith, Clyde Pangborn who opened up Pacific aviation and the Pan American Airways' fabled Flying Clippers. |
$35. |
| 160. | GWYNN-JONES, Terry. WINGS ACROSS THE PACIFIC. The Courageous Aviators who Challenged and Conquered the Greatest Ocean. Allen & Unwin. North Sydney. 1991. x, 256, index; fully illustrated in b/w with more than 200 photos, maps; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; fine condition. The author, himself a pilot, gives an account of extraordinary characters including Charles Kingsford-Smith, Clyde Pangborn who opened up Pacific aviation and the Pan American Airways' fabled Flying Clippers. |
$40. |
| 161. | HALL, Timothy. FLYING HIGH. The Story of Hudson Fysh, Qantas and the Trail-Blazing Days of Early Aviation. Methuen. Sydney. 1979. First Edition; 265, index; e/p maps, 21 b/w photos; hardcover in dust jacket; two small tears to d/j, o/wise fine condition. An immensely readable and often very funny account of the story of Qantas and the man who created it. |
$19. |
| 162. | HALL, Timothy. FLYING HIGH. The Story of Hudson Fysh, Qantas and the Trail-Blazing Days of Early Aviation. Methuen. Sydney. 1979. First Edition; 265, index; e/p maps, 21 b/w photos; hardcover in dust jacket; fine condition. An immensely readable and often very funny account of the story of Qantas and the man who created it. |
$20. |
| 163. | HAMMEL, Eric. GUADALCANAL: THE CARRIER BATTLES. Carrier Operations in the Solomons August - October 1942. Crown Publishers. New York. 1987. First Edition; viii, 505, bibliog., index; 56 b/w photos, maps; hardcover in dust jacket; mint condition. A comprehensive study of the pivotal aircraft-carrier confrontations of the Guadalcanal campaign, full-scale battles that helped determine the outcome of the Pacific War, Hammel has blended his detailed historical narrative with personal accounts of many of the airmen and sailors. |
$40. |
| 164. | HANSFORD, R.F., Editor. RADIO AIDS TO CIVIL AVIATION. Heywood & Co. London. 1960. First Edition; xvi, 623, index; fully illustrated with b/w photos and figures; hardcover in dust jacket [protected]; very good condition. Includes: principles of radio, aircraft communications systems, en route aids, aids to air traffic control, aids to approach, landing and surface movement, weather radar, radar links, present trends. |
$64. |
| 165. | HARLEY, Jane F. MANTLE OF SAFETY. The Flying Doctor Service. Robert Hale. London. 1963. First Edition; 189; 14 illusts.; hardcover in dust jacket (chip out of front of wrapper); (few spots of foxing on e/p and small title page, owner's name on e/p) o/wise good condition. Very Scarce. During a stay at Dunbar, one of Australia's largest cattle stations, the author was faced with the problem of getting a badly injured man to hospital, it was the wet season, but the flying doctor service came to the rescue, the author was later a nurse in a bush hospital and worked in close cooperation with the flying doctor service before writing this account. |
$25. |
| 166. | HARPER, Harry. SKY RIDERS. A Book of Famous Flyers. Collins. London. 1943. 176; fully illustrated in b/w with one 'coloured' photo; hardcover (spine frayed, boards warped and bumped); o/wise good condition. Includes, Battle of Britain, great deeds of British air-war heroes, German air aces, famous flyers of the first world war, pioneers of the aeroplane, triumph of the Wright brothers, first non-stop flight from Newfoundland to Ireland, Kingsford Smith, first flight from England to Australia, drama and tragedy of North Polar airmen, conquest of the Antarctic. |
$20. |
| 167. | HERINGTON, John. AIR WAR AGAINST GERMANY AND ITALY 1939-1943. Australia in the War of 1939-1945 Series 3, (AIR), Volume III. Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 1954. First Edition; xviii, 731, index; 95 illusts., 35 maps, 2 diagrams, 1 graph; hardcover in reproduction dust jacket [protected]; (owner's name on endpaper) o/wise very good condition. Very scarce. Describes the part played by increasing numbers of Australians in the first four years of the air war in Europe and the Middle East, the integration of Dominion contingents within a vast Commonwealth air force produced a variety of problems, political, administrative and psychological, a frank and authoritative exposition of these problems. |
$37. |
| 168. | HERINGTON, John. AIR WAR AGAINST GERMANY AND ITALY 1939-1943. Australia in the War of 1939-1945 Series 3, (AIR), Volume III. Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 1954. First Edition; xviii, 731, index; 95 illusts., 35 maps, 2 diagrams, 1 graph; hardcover in reproduction dust jacket [protected]; (a few spots of foxing in the prelims) o/wise very good condition. Very scarce. Describes the part played by increasing numbers of Australians in the first four years of the air war in Europe and the Middle East, the integration of Dominion contingents within a vast Commonwealth air force produced a variety of problems, political, administrative and psychological, a frank and authoritative exposition of these problems. |
$39. |
| 169. | HERINGTON, John. AIR WAR AGAINST GERMANY AND ITALY 1939-1943. Australia in the War of 1939-1945 Series 3, (AIR), Volume III. Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 1954. First Edition; xviii, 731, index; 95 illusts., 35 maps, 2 diagrams, 1 graph; hardcover in reproduction dust jacket [protected]; (new endpapers, edges of cloth insect damaged) o/wise good condition. Very scarce. Describes the part played by increasing numbers of Australians in the first four years of the air war in Europe and the Middle East, the integration of Dominion contingents within a vast Commonwealth air force produced a variety of problems, political, administrative and psychological, a frank and authoritative exposition of these problems. |
$29. |
| 170. | HESS, William N. PACIFIC SWEEP. The 5th and 13th Fighter Commands in World War II. Double Day. Garden City, NY. 1974. x, 278, index; 71 b/w photos; hardcover in dust jacket; very good condition. An anecdotal unit history, beginning with a handful of pilots in obsolete aircraft trying to stop the Japanese onslaught in the Philippines, evacuation to Australia for aerial defence of that continent and New Guinea, the story often told in the words of the men themselves. |
$40. |
| 171. | HEWITT, J. E. THE BLACK ONE. Langate Publishing. South Yarra, Melbourne. 1984. 172, appendices [ 134] un-numbered; fully illustrated with maps and photos; hardcover in mint dust jacket; large format; mint condition. An autobiography covering the years 1901-1939, including service in the R.N., R.A.F. and R.A.N. and the Royal Australian Air Force, with detailed accounts of the sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in June 1919, of operations against Ataturk in Asia Minor and incursions into the Black Sea during the Civil War in Russia. |
$24. |
| 172. | HILL, Ernestine. FLYING DOCTOR CALLING. The flying Doctor Service of Australia. Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1947. 157; plus forty pages of b/w photos, e/p map; hardcover (spine frayed and repaired top and bottom); (owner's name and address on e/p) o/wise good condition. The story of the Australian Flying Doctor service, with appendices on: brief history of the experimental flying doctor and wireless services inaugurated by the Australian Inland Mission to the Presbyterian Church, the future of the flying doctor service of Australia, the constitution, control and present organization of the flying doctor service of Australia. |
$25. |
| 173. | HINTON, Harold B. AIR VICTORY. The Men and the Machines. How the Weapon of Air Power was Foraged from the Earliest Beginnings through World War II. Foreword by Lieut. Gen. Barton K. Yount U.S.A. Ret. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1948. First Edition; xix, 428, index; 52 illusts.; hardcover in (chipped) dust jacket; very good condition. Very Scarce. The story of the growth of American air power. |
$35. |
| 174. | HISTORICAL OFFICE OF THE ARMY AIR FORCES. THE OFFICIAL PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE ARMY AIR FORCES. ARNO. New York. 1979. Reprint of 1947 Edition; 213; over 600 illusts.; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; very good condition. Comprehensively documents the development of air power in the United States, with a survey of the industrial and scientific know-how that made U.S. air power possible, from Civil War balloons onwards. |
$40. |
| 175. | HITT, Russell T. JUNGLE PILOT. The Life and Witness of Nate Saint. Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1960. First Edition; 303; e/p illust.; 29 b/w photos; hardcover in dust jacket (corner clipped, back side rubbed); near fine condition. An account of the Missionary Aviation Fellowship and of Nate Saint who became the planner and logistics expert of operation Auca in the Ecuador jungle, he made the first difficult landing in the Auca territory, on January 8th 1956 he radioed that he had made contact with the Aucas, that was his last message. |
$20. |
| 176. | HONG KONG AVIATION CLUB. Check List Procedures. HKAC [Hong Kong] 20; heavy cardcover spiral bound at top for flipping pages. very good condition. Pages on heavy laminated card each with a tab on side for flipping to the desired procedure, check list procedures for the Cessna 152, Cessna Skyhawk 172 and the Cessna Skylane 182. |
$29. |
| 177. | HOOPER, Meredith. GOD 'ELP ALL OF US. Three Great Flights. Methuen. North Ryde, NSW. 1986. 104; map, 39 b/w illusts.; hardcover in dust jacket; mint condition. Accounts of three first ever flights, Ross and Keith Smith's first ever flight from England to Australia, Bert Hinkler's solo flight from England to Australia in 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith's flight across the Pacific. |
$20. |
| 178. | HOOPER, Meredith. KANGAROO ROUTE. The Development of Commercial Flight between England and Australia. Angus & Robertson. London. 1985. 216, index; e/p maps, 38 historical photos, 2 text maps, 1 drawing; illust. cardcover; mint condition. Relates the stories of the great aviators who pioneered the route and the early commercial aircraft that ventured across some of the wildest and remote parts of the world. |
$19. |
| 179. | HORVAT, William J. ABOVE THE PACIFIC. Aero Publishers. Fallbrook, CA. 1966. 211, bibliog.; 157 figures; hardcover in (repaired) dust jacket; (e/p scruffed) o/wise good condition. The complete story of flights above the Pacific from the first Hawaiian balloon ascent in 1889 and the first Curtiss flights in 1910 up until the present, included are stories of military interest, commercial flights, and Hawaiian aviation. |
$40. |
| 180. | HYNES, Samuel. FLIGHTS OF PASSAGE. Reflections of a World War II Aviator. Frederic C. Beil. New York. 1988. 270; hardcover in dust jacket; very good condition. Personal account of the mysteries of coming of age in wartime, the author flew more than 100 missions against the Japanese at Okinawa and Uliti, he was just eighteen when he left home and 21 at the war's end, told with compassion and admiration for a pilot's prowess, even when that pilot is an enemy. |
$25. |
| 181. | INGELLS, Douglas. 747 STORY OF THE BOEING SUPER JET. Aero Publishers. Fallbrook, CA. 1970. 272, index; fully illustrated in b/w and colour; illustrated cardcover [protected]; (owner's book stamp on fly page, spine bruised) o/wise good condition Very Scarce. In narrative style, the behind-the-scenes story of the birth of the world's largest commercial jetliner and the history of the Boeing Company's many contributions in the building of the greatest transportaion system the world has ever know, the international family of scheduled air lines. |
$24. |
| 182. | INGELLS, Douglas. L-10011 TRISTAR AND THE LOCKHEED STORY. Aero Publishers. Fallbrook, CA. 1973. First Edition; 256, index; fully illustrated in b/w and colour; hardcover in bruised dust jacket [protected]; very good condition. Very Scarce. In narrative style the author takes you from the formative years when Allen and Malcolm Loughead (pronounced Lockheed) designed and built the Model-G hydroplane in 1913 through to the development of the L-1011. |
$29. |
| 183. | ISAACS, Keith. MILITARY AIRCRAFT OF AUSTRALIA 1909-1918. Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 1971. First Edition; 190, chronology, bibliog., index; 24 col. pages of aircraft murals in the Australian War Memorial, accurate line illustrations of each type of aircraft used by the Australian forces and representative enemy aircraft. hardcover in (repaired) dust jacket; A4 format; very good condition. The first complete account of the history of military aviation in Australia, volume one in a series of four, over forty different types of aircraft were used by Australians and the history of each is presented in a narrative which contains a brief summary of the aircraft's designer, its development and operational background. |
$40. |
| 184. | JABLONSKI, Edward. AIRWAR. An Illustrated History of Air Power in the Second World War. Doubleday. Garden City, NY. 1979. 259, index; 800 b/w photographs; hardcover in dust jacket [protected]; large format; (d/j bruised, few spots on cloth) o/wise near fine condition. The four volume Airwar series presented in a single volume, Terror from the Sky, Tragic Victories, Outraged Skies, Wings of Fire, a wide sweeping history of aerial warfare from 1939-45. |
$65. |
| 185. | JAY, Alwyn. ENDURANCE : A History of RAAF Aircrew Participation in Liberator Operations of RAF Coastal Command 1941-1945. Banner Books. 1996. First Edition. 224; 86 photos, diagrams, cockpit illustrations; hardcover in mint dust jacket; mint condition. Out-of-Print. History of Royal Australian Air Force [RAAF] aircrew on Royal Air Force [RAF] liberators in the Battle of the Atlantic 1941-45, every attack on a U-boat involving RAAF crew members, list of every known RAAF aircrew on these squadrons, personal and official photos. |
$39. |
| 186. | JERRAM, Michael. ANTIQUES OF THE AIR. New English Library. London. 1980. 192, index; fully illustrated in b/w & col.; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; very good condition. Mike Jerram, a noted aviation writer and photographer, describes in vivid detail the more popular vintage and veteran aeroplanes, pioneers, the great war, golden age, warbirds, collections. |
$40. |
| 187. | JERRAM, Michael. THE WORLD'S CLASSIC AIRCRAFT. From Canvas to Concorde. Charles Herridge Book. Bideford, Devon. 1984 [first published 1981]. 189; e/p illusts., text fully illustrated in b/w & col.; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; very good condition. Mike Jerram, noted aviation writer, makes a personal selection of thirty aircraft 'greats', lightplanes, fighters, trainers, bombers, transports, civil and military, ancient and modern and gives an account of the origins and history of each as well as the people involved in development. |
$35. |
| 188. | JERRAM, Michael F. BIPLANES. Chartwell Books. Secaucas, NJ. 1982. First Edition; 192, index; fully illustrated mainly in colour, numerous double page spreads; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; fine condition. Lavishly illustrated with well reproduced plates, the author is a noted aviation writer and photographer, text book accuracy tempered with nostalgia, most production model biplanes included. |
$40. |
| 189. | JERRAM, Michael F. TIGER MOTH. Super Profile. Haynes Publishing. Yeovil, Somerset. 1984. First Edition; 56; fully illustrated in b/w and col.; hardcase laminated cover; mint condition. Very scarce. Includes: Development, the Tiger Moth in Wartime, Overseas Production, Australia, New Zealand, Thruxton Jackaroo, Specifications. Hastily conceived and put together piecemeal from parts of other aircraft, the prototype de Havilland Tiger Moth was developed into one of the world's finest and best-known training aeroplanes. More than 8000 were built and hundreds of thousands of British and Commonwealth pilots were trained on them during World War 2. Much sought after by aviation collectors. |
$26. |
| 190. | JERRAM, Michael F. TIGER MOTH. Super Profile. Haynes Publishing. Yeovil, Somerset. 1984. First Edition; 56; fully illustrated in b/w and col.; hardcase laminated cover; corner of front cover chipped o/wise good condition. Very scarce. Includes: Development, the Tiger Moth in Wartime, Overseas Production, Australia, New Zealand, Thruxton Jackaroo, Specifications. Hastily conceived and put together piecemeal from parts of other aircraft, the prototype de Havilland Tiger Moth was developed into one of the world's finest and best-known training aeroplanes. More than 8000 were built and hundreds of thousands of British and Commonwealth pilots were trained on them during World War 2. Much sought after by aviation collectors. |
$16. |
| 191. | JILLETT, Leslie. WINGS ACROSS THE TASMAN 1928-1953. Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1953. First Edition; 199, index; e/p maps, text map, 26 b/w photos; hardcover in dust jacket; (spine of d/j sunned and chip at top) o/wise very good condition. Very Scarce. The stories of the pioneer aviators that crossed the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, from the first tragic failed flight through the flying-boat era. |
$45. |
| 192. | JONES, Wing Commander Ira ['Taffy'], DSO., MC., DFC., MM. TIGER SQUADRON. The Story of 74 Squadron RAF, in two World Wars. Allen. London. 1954. First Edition 295, index, appendix 1 (World War 1 British Aces), appendix 2 (Fighter Command Pilots with more than twelve confirmed victories up to June 30, 1941), also Tiger Squadron Pilots; frontis portrait, 20 b/w illusts.; hardcover [reproduction dust jacket in protective covering]; inscription on endpaper, foxing to endpapers, numerous pages and outer book edges o/wise good condition. RAF unit history. The history of 74 Squadron, one of greatest fighter squadrons of all time, which is virtually also a history of aerial combat in both world wars. Wing Commander Jones was posted to the Royal Flying Corps Tiger squadron in March 1918 and maintained close association with it through the hottest fighting of two World Wars during which time he kept a diary on which this narrative is based. Scarce unit history. |
$39. |
| 193. | JOY, William. THE AVIATORS. Golden Press. Sydney. 1983. Library of Australian Classics. 211, index; 22 b/w illusts.; hardcover in dust jacket; very good condition. A history of Australian aviation pioneers, isolated on an island continent, Australians provided some of the greatest names in aviation, Hinkler, Kingsford-Smith, Ulm, Huber Wilkins, Ross and Keith Smith, and more. |
$20. |
| 194. | JOY, William. THE AVIATORS. Shakespear Head Press. Sydney. 1971 [first published 1965]. 211, index; 32 b/w illusts.; hardcover in dust jacket; (repaired d/j, corner clipped, owner's name and address and small bookshop stamp on e/p) o/wise good condition. A history of Australian aviation pioneers, isolated on an island continent, Australians provided some of the greatest names in aviation, Hinkler, Kingsford-Smith, Ulm, Huber Wilkins, Ross and Keith Smith, and more. |
$15. |
| 195. | KEYZER-ANDRE, Henri, with Hy Steirman. AGE OF HEROES. Incredible Adventures of a Pan Am Pilot and his Greatest Triumph, Unravelling the Mystery of Amelia Earhart. Hastings House. Mamaroneck, NY. 1993. 302, index; 31 b/w illusts.; hardcover in mint dust jacket with protective covering; mint condition. Autobiography, meet aviation heroes Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindberg and Howard Hughes through the eyes of Henri Keyzer-Andre who began flying in 1929 as a crop duster, survivor of six major air crashes, he worked on the hush-hush project of the nuclear powered aircraft, did a barrel roll in a Concorde and while stationed at the US embassy in Japan he claims to have unravelled the mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance. |
$19. |
| 196. | KINGSFORD-SMITH, C.E. and C.T.P. Ulm. THE STORY OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS. Trans-Pacific Flight 1928. Penlington & Somerville. Sydney. [1928]. First Edition; 227; 72 illusts.; illustrated hardcover (new endpapers); [minor insect damage to cover fabric and stain on back) o/wise good condition. A personal account of this most important event in aviation history - the crossing of . Very Scarce much sought after. |
$49. |
| 197. | KINGSFORD-SMITH, Sir Charles. MY FLYING LIFE. An Authentic Biography Prepared Under the Personal Supervision of and from the Diaries and Papers of the Late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith. Andrew Melrose. London. 1937. 284, index; 27 illusts. hardcover (rebound retaining the fabric and titles from the original spine); o/wise good condition Rare. Autobiography, of noted Australian aviator, barnstormer and trail blazer who pioneered more long distance routes than any pilot in history, posthumously published after the loss of Kingsford-Smith on the ill fated flight aboard the Southern Cloud. |
$95. |
| 198. | KIRBY, Reginald. PEARL HARBOR PILOT. Morris & Walker. Melbourne. 1944. 252; hardcover; very good condition. An historical novel which includes chapters on Australia and the Pacific Air War in Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby, Milne Bay, Burma, etc.). |
$18. |
| 199. | KISSLING, Christopher, Edited by. TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS FOR PACIFIC MICROSTATES: Issues in Organisation and Management. The Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific. Suva. 1984. First Edition; iv, 192, references, index; tables, figures; pictorial cardcover (near fine condition); near fine condition. Includes chapters on telecommunications, social and political implications of television and video, domestic shipping, and aviation ("Aviation and Development Constraints in South Pacific Microstates, National Sovereignty and Corporate Dependence in South Pacific Aviation, The Air Traffic Market and Tourism: Some Thoughts on the South Pacific). Author's presentation copy to owner (front e/p). |
$13. |
| 200. | KNIGHT, Clayton, Written and Illustrated by. LIFELINE IN THE SKY. The Story of the U.S. Military Air Transport Service. William Morrow. New York. 1957. 264, index; e/p maps, fully illustrated with line drawings and water colours; hardcover; very good condition. Very Scarce. Includes: ferrying command, naval air transport service, Alaska, Berlin airlift, moving troops and cargo in peacetime to American stations overseas, medical evacuation squadrons, weather squadrons. |
$45. |
| 201. | KNOKE. Heinz. [Translated by John Ewing] I FLEW FOR THE FUHRER. The story of a German Airman. Evans Brothers Limited. London. 1954 [first published 1953]. 6th reprint; x, 187; 35 b/w photos; hardcover illustrated dust jacket chaffed, in protective covering; aged foxing to book edges.Autobiography of the author, one of the outstanding German pilots of World War II, this first hand record from the other side makes fascinating reading. |
$24. |
| 202. | KNOTT, Richard C. THE AMERICAN FLYING BOAT. An Illustrated History. Conway Maritime Press. London. 1979. First Edition; xiv, 262, bibliog., index; fully illustrated with photos, maps and schematic drawings; hardcover in dust jacket protected; large format; (dust wrapper a little soiled) o/wise near fine condition. Very Scarce. Includes descriptions, rare photos, and line drawings of every major American flying boat type produced, with a considerable amount of material on the more obscure models, the warboats, Pearl Harbor, Midway, Solomons. Much sought after by aviation history collectors. |
$55. |
| 203. | LANCHBERY, Edward. AGAINST THE SUN. The Story of Wing Commander Roland Beamont, D.S.O., O.B.E., D.F.C. Pilot of the Canberra and the P.I. London. 1955. First Edition; hardcover in repaired dust jacket (protected); (spine ends worn) o/wise good condition. |
$16. |
| 204. | LANCHBERY, Edward. AGAINST THE SUN. The Story of Wing Commander Roland Beamont, D.S.O., O.B.E., D.F.C. Pilot of the Canberra and the P.I. London. 1955. First Edition; hardcover [protected]; (no d/j) o/wise good condition. |
$17. |
| 205. | LAX, Mark, Editor. ONE AIRMAN'S WAR. Banner Books. Maryborough, QLD. 1997. 191; 100 b/w photos taken on glass negatives by Joe Bull. hardcover in dust jacket; large format; mint condition. The unique combination of a diary and the personal photos of Joe Bull, 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps 1916-19, fully cross-referenced with our own and German records, Bull kept a very detailed diary. |
$40. |
| 206. | LEACH, Joe. RAAF [Royal Australian Air Force] FLYING BOATS AT WAR. The Way it Was. Australian Military History Publications. 1999. First Edition; 190, index; photos; illustrated cardcover; mint condition. The author served in England as a wireless air gunner with the Sunderland flying boats of 10 RAAF Squadron before returning to the Pacific War where he served in Catalinas of the 113 Air Sea Rescue Squadron in the Pacific Islands, South East Asia (Borneo, Balikpapan, Labuan, Morotai). |
$24. |
| 207. | LEEBOLD, Arthur. SILENT VICTORY. Breaking the Japanese Air-Blockade Between Australian and Europe. Banner Books. Maryborough, QLD. 1995. 111, nominal roll; 47 photos; hardcover in dust jacket; mint condition. The secret passenger service by Qantas, BOAC and RAAF across the Indian Ocean despite Japanese air blockade, Catalinas, Liberators and Lancastrians. |
$40. |
| 208. | LEWIS, Julie. TIMMY WOODS. Flying Pioneer. Fremantle Arts Centre Press. Fremantle, WA. 1989. 191, bibliog.; fully illustrated with b/w photos; cardcover in dust jacket; mint condition. Biography of one of the pioneers and legends of Australian aviation, tells the story of much of the development of the aviation industry in the western part of the Australian continent. |
$20. |
| 209. | LEWIS, W. David and Wesley Phillips Newton. DELTA THE HISTORY OF AN AIRLINE. University of Georgia Press. Athens. 1970. First Edition; xiii, 503, bibliog., index; profusely illustrated with coloured and b/w photographs and line maps; hardcover in fine dust jacket; fine condition. Very scarce. Written in a narrative style, but based on intensive research, the book focuses on the milestones in Delta's evolution from lowly crop dusting to a major US carrier, in doing so it presents a fascinating portrait of Delta's founder, CE Woolman. |
$44. |
| 210. | LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow. NORTH TO THE ORIENT. With Maps by Charles A. Lindbergh. Harcourt, Brace and Co. New York. 1935. 255; e/p maps, frontis illustration, text maps; hardcover; (inscription on e/p, top of spine end frayed, very light browning) o/wise good condition. A personal account of a pioneer flight on the great circle route from New York to Tokyo in 1931. |
$16. |
| 211. | LINDBERGH, Charles A. THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS. John Murray. London. 1953. First Edition; xii, 531; 21 b/w illusts.; hardcover in (chipped) d/j; (price blocked out with marking pen) o/wise very good condition. Autobiography of the famed aviator, includes: St Louis-Chicago Mail, New York, San Diego, across the continent, Roosevelt Field, New York to Paris, afterward. |
$37. |
| 212. | LINDBERGH, Charles A. THE WARTIME JOURNALS OF CHARLES A. LINDBERGH. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. New York. 1970. First Edition; xx, 1038, glossary, index; 77 b/w photos, area maps to covers and endpapers; hardcover, cloth with gilt title and text on cover and spine, dust jacket [in protective covering]; slight rubbing to edges of dust jacket, owners name and inscription on endpaper o/wise very good condition.Charles A. Lindbergh is one of the famous men of our century. |
$35. |
| 213. | LOVELL, Mary S. STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING. The Biography of Beryl Markham. St Martin's Press. New York. 1991 [first published 1987]. US Paperback Edition; xxvii, 444, bibliog., index; 19 b/w illusts.; cardcover; A5 format; very good condition. Beryl Markham was a remarkable woman, brought up in East Africa, she became Africa's first female thoroughbred trainer and later its first female bush pilot, the first to fly the Atlantic solo from England to North America, a story full of romance and courage. |
$12. |
| 214. | LOVELL, Mary S. STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING. The Biography of Beryl Markham. St Martin's Press. New York. 1987. US Edition; xxiv, 408, bibliog., index; frontis portrait, 54 b/w illusts.; hardcover in dust jacket; fine condition. Beryl Markham was a remarkable woman, brought up in East Africa, she became Africa's first female thoroughbred trainer and later its first female bush pilot, the first to fly the Atlantic solo from England to North America, a story full of romance and courage. |
$30. |
| 215. | LUCAS, F.J. POPEY LUCAS QUEENSTOWN. Reed. Wellington. 1969 [first published 1968]. 186; 36 b/w photos; hardcover in (chaffed) dust jacket; very good condition. Autobiography of noted New Zealand aviation pioneer, Popeye Lucas who developed private-enterprise civil aviation and eventually turned to Queenstown on the South Island where he proved the versatility of light aircraft in a scenic flying, topdressing, aerial oversowing, ferrying fish, provisioning deerstalkers and climbers and emergency rescue operations. |
$20. |
| 216. | LYALL, Gavin, Editor. THE WAR IN THE AIR. The Royal Air Force in World War II. William Morrow. New York. 1969. First U.S. Edition; xv, 422, index; 23 b/w photos; hardcover in dust jacket; (library label on d/j spine) o/wise very good condition. An anthology on the RAF produced as a companion volume to The British Navy in World War II, edited by a former air correspondent and fighter pilot. |
$22. |
| 217. | McAULAY, Lex. AGAINST ALL ODDS RAAF. RAAF Pilots in the Battle for Malta 1942. Hutchinson Australia. Milsons Point, NSW. 1989. First Edition; 242, index; e/p maps, 2 text maps, b/w photos; hardcover in mint dust jacket (protected); mint condition. Out-of-print, very scarce. The story of the small band of Australian fighter pilots who flew and fought in RAF fighter squadrons in the Battle for Malta in 1942 - the most intense and prolonged period of operations experienced by Australian fighter pilots in World War II. Much sought after by collectors. |
$27. |
| 218. | McAULAY. Lex. FOUR ACES : RAAF Fighter Pilots Europe and North Africa 1941-44. Banner Books. Maryborough, Qld. 1998 First Edition; ix, 144; b/w photographs, endpaper maps; Hardcover in mint dust jacket; mint condition, signed by the Author. Australians served with distinction in almost every theatre of World War 2 and many carried the war to the enemy in the air, this book describes the flying careers of four such young members of the RAAF in 3 chapters - Desert Battles, "Nicky Barr", P-40 Fighter Bomber; Spitfire Leader, "Hugo Armstrong", Spitfire Sweeps; Out of the Shadows, "Peter Panitz" and "Dickie Williams", Mosquito Intruders. Recommended. |
$37. |
| 219. | McDONALD, Roger, photographs by richard with Richard Woldendorp. AUSTRALIA'S FLYING DOCTORS. The Royal Flying Doctors Service of Australia. Pan McMillan. Sydney. 1994. First Edition; 163, acknowledgements; profusely illustrated with glorious, clear colour photos; hardcover with mint dust jacket in protective covering; dust jacket has small tear repair to spine o/w fine condition.A great testament to the work, the vision and the commitment of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. |
$49. |
| 220. | McDONALD, W.R. BY BOMBER TO BRITAIN. Telegraph Newspaper Co. Brisbane. 1944. 190; 21 b/w plates; hardcover (spine sunned); (new endpapers) o/wise good condition. The author was the General Manager of the Telegraph in Brisbane, at the invitation of the British Ministry of Information in 1944, he flew to Britain in a Liberator Bomber to enable him to report upon Britain in war conditions, includes: the visit of Prime Ministers Curtin of Australia and Fraser of New Zealand, reportage of every day life, and anecdotal narrative, he remained in Britain until after the invasion of Normandy. |
$25. |
| 221. | McKEE, Alexander. THE MOSQUITO LOG. Souvenir Press. London. 1988. 207; 100 rare and unusual b/w photographs; hardcover in dust jacket; fine condition. De Havilland's Mosquito, a wartime aircraft of wooden construction was to become one of the most versatile aircraft in history, continuing in use until 1958, traces the details of her construction, record of operational flights. |
$30. |
| 222. | MacKNIGHT, Nigel and Nicola. THE COLOUR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AIRCRAFT. Foreword by Miss Shiela Scott OBE. Octopus Books. London. 1980. First Edition; 224, index; fully illustrated in colour with photos and paintings; hard cover in dust jacket; large format; minor chip to d/j, o/wise very good condition.Covers every type of plane in alpahabetical order including aircraft of both world wars, light and general aircraft, commercial, patol and training aircraft, racing planes, seaplanes and helicopters, illustrated with photos and commissioned colour artworks. |
$29. |
| 223. | McNALLY, Ward. THE MAN ON THE TWENTY DOLLAR NOTE. Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith. Reed. Sydney. 1976; 216, index; 34 b/w photos; hardcover in dust jacket; A5 format; (foxing on title pages) o/wise very good condition. biography of the noted Australian aviator, contains a substantial amount of unpublished material, from stunts and barnstorming to epic pathfinding flights that established the shape of future world air travel. |
$25. |
| 224. | McNALLY, Ward. SMITHY. The Kingsford Smith Story. Robert Hale. London. 1966. third impression; 190, chronology of flights, index; 14 illusts.; hardcover in (chipped) dust jacket; very good condition. Biography of Australian pilot Kingsford-Smith, as an air ace he shot down a number of German planes before he was himself shot up with 182 bullet holes in his plane and his toes were shot off, he then did some stunt flying in Hollywood, eventually he made aviation history flying the Pacific Ocean to Australia and later became the first man to circumnavigate the world by air. |
$30. |
| 225. | McNALLY, Ward. SMITHY. The Kingsford Smith Story. Robert Hale. London. 1966. third impression; 190, chronology of flights, index; 14 illusts.; hardcover in (reproduction) dust jacket; very good condition. Biography of Australian pilot Kingsford-Smith, as an air ace he shot down a number of German planes before he was himself shot up with 182 bullet holes in his plane and his toes were shot off, he then did some stunt flying in Hollywood, eventually he made aviation history flying the Pacific Ocean to Australia and later became the first man to circumnavigate the world by air. |
$25. |
| 226. | MARKHAM, Beryl. WEST WITH THE NIGHT. North Point Press. San Francisco. 1987 [first published 1942]. The Illustrated Edition; 261; 32 pages of historic photographs; hardcover in mint dust jacket; mint condition. Scarce. Biography, a moving narrative of the aviator-adventurer's childhood in East Africa and her adulthood on land and in the air, Ms Markham carried mail, passengers and supplies in her small plane to the remote corners of the Sudan, Tanganyika, Kenya and Rhodesia, in 1936 she became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. It is "a book of such beauty, humour and wisdom that its virtual disappearance for nearly four decades is in equal measure shocking and mystifying" - Washington Post Book World. |
$24. |
| 227. | MASON, David. COMBAT READY. The Making of a Fighter Pilot. Bloomsbury. London. 1991. 196; 18 figures; hardcover in dust jacket; mint condition. A journalist follows a fighter pilot from selection process, through training to flying solo in a Tornado, offers rare glimpses of the working lives of pilots in combat manoeuvres to streaking through the Welsh hills at treetop height. |
$25. |
| 228. | MASON, Francis K. LOCKHEED HERCULES. Patrick Stephens. Wellingborough. 1984. First Edition; 239, index; fully illustrated, some plates in col.; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; fine condition. A comprehensive account of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules and its numerous international derivatives, an unparalleled catalogue of achievements with meticulous attention to detail, outstanding photographs. |
$45. |
| 229. | MIKESH, Robert C. JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CODE NAMES AND DESIGNATIONS. Schiffer Military/Aviation. Atglen, PA. 1993. First Edition; 181; fully illustrated in b/w with photos and drawings; cardcover; mint condition. Code names came into use in World War II to make it easy for pilots and intelligence officers to identify and communicate the type of Japanese aircraft in action, the names had to be simple, easy to remember and not likely to get scrambled in radio transmission, the book, includes 122 code name aircraft illustrated with a chapter on non-code named Japanese aircraft with illustrations. Scarce Aviation Reference. |
$45. |
| 230. | MILLER, H.C. EARLY BIRDS. Rigby. Adelaide. 1968. 166; 42 b/w illusts.; hardcover in dust jacket; (new endpapers, 2 library stamps) o/wise very good condition. Autobiographical account of early aviation by the founder of Australia's MacRobertson Miller Air Services, the author gives a colourful picture of his early experiences in Australia, then in Britain where he went to learn how to build and fly aircraft, the Royal Flying Corps in France during World War I and his return to civil aviation in Australia. |
$25. |
| 231. | MILLER, H.C. EARLY BIRDS. Rigby. Adelaide. 1968. 166; 42 b/w illusts.; hardcover in (sunned and chipped) dust jacket; (name and address on endpaper) o/wise very good condition. Autobiographical account of early aviation by the founder of Australia's MacRobertson Miller Air Services, the author gives a colourful picture of his early experiences in Australia, then in Britain where he went to learn how to build and fly aircraft, the Royal Flying Corps in France during World War I and his return to civil aviation in Australia. |
$25. |
| 232. | MONDEY, David. THE CONCISE GUIDE TO AXIS AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR II. Chancellor Press. London. 1997 [first published 1984]. reprint of 1996 edition; 256, index; fully illustrated in b/w and colour with photographs and colour illustrations; hardcover in dust jacket; mint condition. Colourful and compact volume with over 100 aircraft featured from companies such as Messerschmitt, Kawasaki and Fiat, with history and development, over 400 illustrations. |
$24. |
| 233. | MONDEY, David, compiled by. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE WORLD'S CIVIL AIRCRAFT. Hamlyn-Aerospace. London. 1981. First Edition; 254, index; fully illustrated with schematic drawings, paintings and photographs mainly in colour; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; fine condition.Airliners, commuter aircraft, freighters, executive aircraft, helicopters, light planes, the world's most comprehensive civil aircraft encyclopedia . |
$40. |
| 234. | MONDEY, David, Editor. THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE WORLD'S AIRCRAFT. Military and Civil Aviation from the Beginnings to the Present Day. New Burlington Books. London. 1978. 320, index; the history of aviation is illustrated in full colour, the encyclopedia itself has over a thousand b/w and two-colour photos; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; fine condition. The first fully international guide to list all the world's manufacturers of production aircraft, both military and civil from the beginning of powered flight to the present, providing details of almost 1500 manufacturers, an important aviation reference. |
$45. |
| 235. | MONDEY, David, general editor; AVIATION. The Complete Book of Aircraft and Flight. Octopus Books. London. 1980. First Edition; 400, index; fully illustrated in b/w and colour with photos and schematic drawings; hardcover in dust jacket [protected]. large format; minor chips on d/j o/wise very good condition.Includes the Wright Brothers, the science and practice of flight, warplanes, aerial warfare (including Vietnam and the Six Day War), airlines and airliners, aerial sport, rotorcraft, gliders, airships, rockets, missles and space exploration. |
$28. |
| 236. | MONKS, Noel. FIGHTER SQUADRONS. The Epic Story of Two Hurricane Squadrons in France. Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1941. 5th printing; 242; 15 b/w plates; hardcover; (spine sunned, no d/j, prelims soiled) o/wise good condition. Written by the Daily Mail war correspondent with the Royal Air Force in France. |
$29. |
| 237. | MONTAGUE, Richard. OCEANS, POLES AND AIRMEN. The First Flights Over Wide Waters and Desolate Ice. Random House. New York. 1971. First Edition; x, 307, index; illustrated with 35 contemporary photographs; hardcover in dust jacket; (a few scholarly pencil notes in margins and index) o/wise very good condition. As a reporter, the author knew many of the scores of fascinating aviation personalites depicted in this volume, he has brilliantly re-created an aviation adventure period in the late 20's when some foolish and very brave men and women pushed the aviation frontiers across oceans and to the North and South Poles. |
$30. |
| 238. | MOORE, H.M. SILVER WINGS IN PACIFIC SKIES. Australia's First Trans-Pacific Airline: British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines. Boolarong Publications. Brisbane. 1993. 166, index; over 80 illustrations and maps; pictorial laminated hardcover; mint condition. Very scarce. A history of British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines which served Australia, New Zealand, Canada, U.S.A., Hawaii and Fiji prior to Qantas taking over Pacific services. |
$39. |
| 239. | MOORE, Patrick. CONQUEST OF THE AIR. The Story of the Wright Brothers. Lutterworth Press. London. 1968 [first published 1961]. 94; col. frontis; hardcover (spine sunned, corners bumped); A5 format; (book shop stamp on e/p) o/wise good condition. The story of the Wright Brothers written for young readers. |
$15. |
| 240. | NAGATSUKA, Ryuji. I WAS A KAMIKAZE. The Knights of the Divine Wind. Translated from the French by Nina Rootes. Abelard-Schuman. London. 1973. First English Edition; x, 212, appendix of Suicide-Plane Statistics; 18 photos; hardcover in dust jacket; very good condition. The author was a Japanese high school student when all students were drafted into the war, he decided to apply for training as a pilot, the student pilots were rushed into combat at the time suicide attacks became a policy. During the battle of Okinawa, 2,571 Japanese pilots crashed their planes, sinking 23 U.S. warships. |
$25. |
| 241. | NANCE, John J. SPLASH OF COLORS THE SELF-DESTRUCTION OF BRANIFF INTERNATIONAL [AIRLINES]. William Morrow. New York. 1984. First Edition. 426, appendices, index; b/w photos; hardcover embossed title on spine (in protected pictorial dust jacket); fine condition. Scarce. This book is the behind-the-scenes story of the destruction of the United States seventh largest commercial airline - Dallas based Braniff International. It is an unusually candid and carefully researched account of a unique human and business tragedy. |
$19. |
| 242. | NELMES, Michael v. and Ian Jenkins. G-FOR-GEORGE. A Memorial to RAAF Bomber Crews 1939-45 460 Squadron RAAF. Banner Books. Maryborough, QLD. 2000. First Edition; 240, nominal roll; b/w illustrations; hardcover in dust jacket; mint condition. Unit history of the 460 Squadron RAAF which lost 1,018 men and 200 aircraft in three years of operations in the night bombing campaign against targets in Germany and Occupied Europe in World War II. |
$49. |
| 243. | NEWTON, Dennis. CLASH OF EAGLES. Australian Airmen from World War I to Vietnam. kangaroo Press. Kenthurst, NSW. 1996. First Edition; 148, index; b/w photos and schematic drawings; cardcover; large format; mint condition.Highlights the achievements of a cross-section of Australian airmen in various conflicts throughout the world. |
$39. |
| 244. | NEWTON, Dennis. FIRST IMPACT Volume 1. Combat Diary Series. Australians in the Air War of World War 2, Volume 1: 1939-40 Banner Books. Maryborough, QLD. 1997. First Edition; 239; 152 illusts.; hardcover in fine dust jacket; mint condition. Australians were involved in the air war 1939-45 from the first day of hostilities, and were present in every theatre of war. When war was declared, Australians were already in the UK, either as members of the RAAF or the RAF - these men were among the first to feel the impact of operations, and among the first to be lost. This war diary of Australians in the air war 1939-45, is a greatly expanded version of the popular 2-page per month history of the RAAF at war in Australian Aviation magazine 1990-95. |
$45. |
| 245. | NIVEN, Fred. HISTORY OF AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATED WITH THE ANSETT GROUP OF COMPANIES [Australia & New Zealand] Ansett Australia, Aero Pelican, Skywest, Ansett New Zealand, Kendall. Melbourne, Victoria. November, 1999. 264; b/w illustrations (photocopied); cardcover; A4. mint condition (photocopy of original). Privately printed and distributed. Contains flow-charts of Ansett Airlines Australia and Ansett associated airlines, index of registrations by aircraft type, Australian-registered aircraft (G-AU), Australian-registered aircraft (VH), Australian radio call-signs, Foreign-registered aircraft operated in Australia, New Zealand-operated aircraft, photographs. |
$57. |
| 246. | ODGERS, George. AIR WAR AGAINST JAPAN 1943-1945. SERIES THREE: AIR. VOLUME II: AIR WAR AGAINST JAPAN 1943-1945. Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 1968 [first published 1957]. xiii, 533, index; 38 maps, 63 illusts.; hardcover in dust jacket; (corner of d/w clipped) o/wise very good condition. The air war during the period in which the Allies possessed air superiority in the Pacific, the story of Japanese reactions to Allied air operations has been told with the help of enemy records which put familiar events in a new light. |
$37. |
| 247. | ODGERS, George. THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE. An Illustrated History. Child & Henry. Brookvale, NSW. 1984. First Edition; 240, index; illustrated endpapers, text fully illustrated in b/w and col. with photographs and paintings; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; (foxing on back of front e/p and on small title page) o/wise very good condition. Noted military historian, George Odgers, tells the story of the Royal Australian Air Force from its humble beginnings in 1914, covers the first 70 years of military aviation. |
$45. |
| 248. | ODGERS, George. THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE. An Illustrated History. Ure Smith. Sydney. 1965. First Edition; 191; fully illustrated in b/w; hardcover in dust jacket; very good condition. Scarce. The whole history of the Royal Australian Air Force is brought together for the first time in one volume, combining a detailed text with full illustration coverage. |
$40. |
| 249. | ON TARGET. With the American and Australian Anti-Aircraft Brigade in New Guinea. Angus & Robertson Ltd. Sydney. 1943. First Edition; 168; fully illustrated with photos and drawings; hardcover in (ragged) dust jacket; (cover corners bumped, endpapers soiled) o/wise good condition. Scarce. A kaleidoscopic story of the Austral-American Anti-Aircraft Brigade in New Guinea, war-humour, photos, drawings, poems, stories, with foreword by General Douglas MacArthur. |
$24. |
| 250. | ON TARGET. With the American and Australian Anti-Aircraft Brigade in New Guinea. Angus & Robertson Ltd. Sydney. 1943. First Edition; 168; fully illustrated with photos and drawings; hardcover; (no d/j, cover soiled) o/wise good condition. Scarce. A kaleidoscopic story of the Austral-American Anti-Aircraft Brigade in New Guinea, war-humour, photos, drawings, poems, stories, with foreword by General Douglas MacArthur. |
$23. |
| 251. | ON TARGET. With the American and Australian Anti-Aircraft Brigade in New Guinea. Angus & Robertson Ltd. Sydney. 1943. First Edition; 168; fully illustrated with photos and drawings; hardcover; no d/j, cover soiled some foxing o/wise good condition. Scarce. A kaleidoscopic story of the Austral-American Anti-Aircraft Brigade in New Guinea, war-humour, photos, drawings, poems, stories, with foreword by General Douglas MacArthur. |
$22. |
| 252. | PACIFIC DEFENCE REPORTER 1989 ANNUAL REFERENCE EDITION. Peter Isaacson Publications. Sydney. 1989. 280, index of articles; advertisements by military suppliers, maps, photos; cardcover; A4 format; owner's book stamp on contents page, o/wise very good condition. Scarce. Includes: New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, South-East Asia, Thailand, China, Diego Garcia, the Gulf and beyond, , North-East Asia, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, Iran, Middle East, Southern Africa, United States, the year in the air, the year at sea, weapons, terrorism, the military balance 1989-90 Australia, Pacific defence directory. |
$19. |
| 253. | PACIFIC DEFENCE REPORTER 1990 ANNUAL REFERENCE EDITION. Peter Isaacson Publications. Sydney. 1990. 264; advertisements by military suppliers, maps, photos; cardcover; A4 format; very good condition. Scarce. Includes: New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, South-East Asia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia & Vietnam, Philippines, China, Hong Kong, Myanmar, North-East Asia, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Indian subcontinent, Afganistan, Iran, Middle East, Southern Africa, United States, the year in the air, the year at sea, arms control, terrorism, the military balance 1989-90 Australia. |
$19. |
| 254. | PACIFIC DEFENCE REPORTER YEAR BOOK 1978/79. Incorporating the IISS Military Balance. P.Y. Logistics and Holdings. Church Point, NSW. 1978. 408 (pages 261 to 273 missing); advertisements by military suppliers; hardcover; A4 format; good condition. Scarce. Includes: strategic balance, Australian defence, problems of surveillance, growth of regional maritime forces, Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean, the year in Africa, Middle East and Mediterranean, the challenge in Europe, Papua New Guinea, the South Pacific, defence industry. |
$25. |
| 255. | PACIFIC SURVEY SPONSORED STUDY. U.S. Department of the Interior. Winter 1966. 195; 3 maps; stud fastened pressboard covers with original card mounted on the front; (foxing on cover and a few spots on table of contents, pages 55 to 168 incorrectly punched in outside margin, damp stain on maps) o/wise good condition. Includes: air traffic development in the Pacific, The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, The Territory of Guam, The Territory of American Samoa, conclusions and recommendations, political and economic profile, operational environment, present air transportation service and authorizations. |
$33. |
| 256. | PAPE, Richard. BOLDNESS BE MY FRIEND. Foreword by Marshall of the Royal Air Force Lord Tedder. Elek. London. 1953. 309; 19 illusts., 1 sketch map, 4 other maps; hardcover in (repaired) dust jacket; very good condition (inscription on e/p). The author was shot down after a mission that destroyed Goering's operational headquarters, he recounts his joining the Dutch underground, his capture, escape, intrigues and violence, recapture, exploits that last for three years before he is again home in Britain. |
$25. |
| 257. | PATIENT, Joe. PILOT. A Tale of High Adventure. Leo Cooper. London. 1997. viii, 248, index; b/w photos; hardcover in dust jacket; mint condition.Autobiographical account, the author flew over 80 types of aircraft in World War II and afterward in civil aviation, an outspoken account of the exploits of a man who clearly preferred to live life in the fast lane. |
$42. |
| 258. | PEARCY, Arthur. A HISTORY OF U.S. COAST GUARD AVIATION. Naval Institute Press. Annapolis, Maryland. 1989. 184, index; fully illustrated in b/w and col.; hardcover in dust jacket; A4 format; fine condition. The US Coast Guard operates nearly 200 aircraft, twenty-four hours a day throughout the year from 27 air stations, a history of Coast Guard aircraft from the establishment of their air-wing in 1916, with well reproduced photos on quality art paper. |
$40. |
| 259. | PEARSON, David. KAL007 THE COVER-UP. Why the True Story Has Never Been Told. Summit Books. New York. 1987. 462, index, bibliog. 3 maps; hardcover in dust jacket; fine condition. A critical examination of the facts relating to the shooting down of a Korean Air Lines passenger plane by the Soviet Union over the Sea of Japan in 1983. |
$30. |
| 260. | PEARSON, David. KAL007 THE COVER-UP. Why the True Story Has Never Been Told. Summit Books. New York. 1987. 462, index, bibliog., index; hardcover in dust jacket; very good condition. A critical examination of the facts relating to the shooting down of a Korean Air Lines passenger plane by the Soviet Union over the Sea of Japan in 1983. |
$35. |
| 261. | PEARSON, Ross A. AUSTRALIANS AT WAR IN THE AIR 1939-1945. Volume II. Kangaroo Press. Kenthurst, NSW. 1995. 157, bibliog., index; maps, b/w photos; cardcover; mint condition. Australian airmen give first-hand accounts of wartime aviation over sea, desert and jungle, ordinary blokes caught up in truly extraordinary circumstances, includes: coastal command, fleet air arm, Middle East and Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, the Southwest Pacific, ground staff, the tactical Air Force in Europe. |
$30. |
| 262. | PEARSON, Ross A. AUSTRALIANS AT WAR IN THE AIR 1939-1945. Volume I. Kangaroo Press. Kenthurst, NSW. 1995. 140, bibliog., index; maps, b/w photos; cardcover; mint condition. In this volume former wireless/air gunner Ross Pearson covers the war over Europe, from extensive interviews with dozens of veterans he has crafted a vivid account of their war from training to strategic and bombing operations, a richly detailed historical document. |
$30. |
| 263. | PETERS, Klaus J. FALLSCHIRM-JAGER RET. 3 (Parachute Regiment No 3) A Pictorial History. Volume 2 The War Missions 1941-1945. Bender Publishing. San Jose, CA. 1995. First Edition; 668, bibliog.; fully illustrated with over 1000 b/w photos and maps, captions in English and German; hardcover; fine condition. Text in German and English, includes: Crete campaign, Russia at the Neva River, Africa, France, Sicily, Cassino, central and northern Italy. Out-of-Print. |
$95. |
| 264. | PHILLIPS, Robert. THE FIRST SIXTY YEARS. Civil Aviation in Papua New Guinea. Australian Government Publishing Service. Canberra. 1982. 20; 13 ink illustrations. cardcover; mint condition. Covers the period 1922 to 1982, well illustrated. |
$15. |
| 265. | PHILPOTT, Bryan. HISTORY OF THE GERMAN AIR FORCE. Bison Books. London. 1986. 192, bibliog., index; fully illustrated in b/w and col.; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; fine condition. The author served with the Royal Air Force and has written 11 books about the German Luftwaffe, his carefully researched text is accompanied by excellent illustrations. |
$40. |
| 266. | PILOT'S AND ENGINEER'S NOTES HALIFAX III & VII. Four Hercules VI OR XVI Engines. Air Publication 1719C & G-P.N. Air Ministry. March 1944. Reproduction by Permission of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 46, plus 8 pages of fold-out figures; photos and technical drawings; cardcover; very good condition. Rare. |
$36. |
| 267. | PILOT'S AND ENGINEER'S NOTES LINCOLN I & II. Mark I-Four Merlin 85 or 85A Power Plants, Mark II-Four Merlin 68 or 68A Power Plants. Air Publication 2847A & B-P.N. Air Ministry. June 1947. Reproduction by Permission of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 52, plus 3 pages of fold-out figures; photos and technical drawings; cardcover; (a few neat handwritten amendments) o/wise very good condition. Rare. |
$36. |
| 268. | PILOT'S AND ENGINEER'S NOTES STIRLING I, III, IV. Mark I-Four Hercules XI Engines, Mark III & IV-Four Hercules VI or XVI Engines. Air Publication 1660A, C & D-P.N. Air Ministry. Janurary 1944. Reproduction by Permission of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Third Edition; 60, plus 6 pages of fold-out figures; photos and technical drawings; cardcover; very good condition. Rare. |
$36. |
| 269. | PILOT'S AND ENGINEER'S NOTES SUNDERLAND III FOUR PEGASUS XVIII ENGINES. Air Publication 1566C-P.N. Air Ministry. November 1943. Reproduction by Permission of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Second Edition; 44, plus 6 pages of fold-out figures; photos and technical drawings; cardcover; (a few neat handwritten amendments) o/wise very good condition. Rare. |
$36. |
| 270. | PLATH, Dietmar. Text Gunter Hartung. AIR NIUGINI. Air Niugini Edition. Air Niugini. Port Moresby. 1989. 46; fully illustrated in colour; hardcover; A4 format; mint condition. History of Air Niugini with superb photographs printed on heavy art paper accompanied by a concise history of the airline. |
$25. |
| 271. | POOLEY, Robert with William Ryall, Editors. POOLEY'S FLIGHT GUIDE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND MARCH, 1984. Robert Pooley. London. 1984. xvi, 422; fully illustrated with runway diagrams; hardcover; fine condition.Includes: pre-flight planning, controlling authorities & comms channels, military aerodrome traffic zones, private airfields, helipads, glider launching sites, free-fall parachuting sites, microlight flying sites, hang gliding sites, prevention terrorism order, meteorological services and more. |
$14. |
| 272. | PRANGE, Gordon W. With Donald M. Goldstein & Katherine V. Dillon. GOD'S SAMURAI. Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor. Brassey's. Washington. 1991. xvi, 349, bibliog. index; 29 illusts.; hardcover in dust jacket; mint condition. Scarce. The story of Mitsuo Fuchida, the career naval aviator who led the air attack on Pearl Harbor, participated in most of the fiercest battles of the Pacific and was aboard the Missouri at the surrender ceremonies. |
$35. |
| 273. | PRICE, Alfred. SPITFIRE. A Complete Fighting History. PRC Publishing. London. 1999. This Edition first published 1991. 301; fully illustrated with historic photos; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; mint condition. The most famous aircraft ever to serve in the Royal Air Force, an objective analysis of the Spitfire legend which casts new light not only on the Spitfire, but also on the nature of air combat during the Second World War. |
$34. |
| 274. | PRIEST, Joan. VIRTUE IN FLYING. A Biography of Pioneer Aviator Keith Virtue. Angus & Robertson. London. 1975. xii, 158; 24 b/w photos; hardcover in (sunned) dust jacket; A5 format; (owner's name and address on e/p) o/wise very good condition. The first Australian pilot to have spent 20,000 hours in the air, in 1933 Keith Virtue was flying the Fokker-type Avro-Xs with primitive instruments in all weathers, 500 miles a day, six days a week, later he flew the last leg of the first Empire Airmail in a night flight to Sydney landing by kerosene flares. |
$20. |
| 275. | QANTAS AIRWAYS 1969 VOL 35 Numbers 1 to 12. Qantas Airways Ltd. Sydney. 1969. Bound Volume of 12 issues. [236]. fully illustrated in b/w and col.; hardcover. very good condition. Very Scarce. Quantas Airways in flight magazine with articles mainly on travel destinations and places to visit. |
$65. |
| 276. | QANTAS AIRWAYS 1972-1973 VOL 38 Numbers 1 to 8 and VOL 39 Numbers 1 to 5. Qantas Airways Ltd. Sydney. 1972-1973. Bound Volume of 12 issues. [276]. fully illustrated in b/w and col.; hardcover. very good condition. Very Scarce. Quantas Airways in flight magazine with articles mainly on travel destinations and places to visit. |
$55. |
| 277. | [QANTAS] TRANSIT VOL. 8 NO. 2 1988 QANTAS Cabin Crew Magaazine. QANTAS. [Sydney]. 1988. 12; b/w photos; cardcover; near fine condition. Very scarce. Articles by Qantas cabin crew including: Qantas in Papua New Guinea, the story of the first rocket-pushed flight, the best kept secrets of India, an incident at Mt Hagen. |
$19. |
| 278. | QANTAS ANNUAL REPORT 1972/73. Fifty-Third Year of Operation. Qantas. Sydney. 1973. 48; map, col. photos, charts; cardcover; A4 format; (one section glued out of square) o/wise good condition. Annual report and financial statement. |
$20. |
| 279. | QANTAS ANNUAL REPORT 1975/76. Qantas. Sydney. 1976. 52; map, col. photos, charts; cardcover; A4 format; very good condition. Annual report and financial statement. |
$15. |
| 280. | QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS Da VINCI TO SPUTNIK. The Qantas Collection of Models of the Great Breakthroughs in Flight. Qantas. Sydney. 1963. 20; 17 b/w illusts.; cardcover (soiled with some crinkling); o/wise good condition. Exhibition catalogue with detailed captions accompanied by photos of models of early flying breakthroughs. |
$15. |
| 281. | QUEENSLAND AVIATION. No. 1 From the Ground Up 1910-1912. Smith & Paterson. Brisbane. 1972. 133, index; 15 b/w photos; cardcover; very good condition. Scarce. Early Australian aviation history, includes: the Queensland Aero Club of 1910, first Australian flight, Gaston Cugnet, powered flight comes to Queensland. Out-of-Print. |
$25. |
| 282. | RAAF Historical Section, compiled by. UNITS OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE A CONCISE HISTORY VOLUME 10. Chief of the Air Staff, Aircraft, Bibliography. Australian Government Publishing Service. Canberra. 1995. x, 43, plus plates; 157 b/w photographs; cardcover [protected]; (three words blocked out with red marker on small title page) o/wise good condition. Unit history prepared as part of the RAAF 75th Anniversary celebrations. |
$38. |
| 283. | RANCE, Adrian B., Editor. SEA PLANES AND FLYING BOATS OF THE SOLENT. Southampton University in association with Southampton City Museums. 1981. 64; fully illustrated with b/w photos; cardcover; fine condition. Very Scarce. A history of British flying boats. |
$44. |
| 284. | RAPIER, Brian J. and Chaz Bowyer. HALIFAX & WELLINGTON. Halifax at War. Wellington at War. Promotional Reprint Company. London. 1997. [first published as 2 separate volumes 1982, 1987]; 256, bibliog; fully illustrated with b/w photos; hardcover in mint dust jacket; mint condition in mint dust jacket. Scarce. Histories of two bombers which served as the backbone of the RAF Bomber Command in the early years of World War 2. Former crewmen add their recollections to the visual history provided by an impressive selection of photographs. |
$29. |
| 285. | REID, P.R. WINGED DIPLOMAT: The Life Story of Air Commodore "Freddie" West V.C., C.B.E., M.C. Chatto & Windus. London. 1962. First Edition; viii, 219, index; b/w photos; hardcover with gilt title embossed on spine in pictorial dust jacket [slightly chipped on top end, protected]; slight foxing on endpapers and up to main title page o/wise in very good condition. This book describes the experiences of Air Commodore "Freddie" West during World War II when he was British Attache in Berne and head of British Air Intelligence in Switzerland plus his unorthodox experiences as a student in Italy and Switzerland, his experiences in the World War I and between the WWs as an Air Attache to various British Legations and Embassies. |
$29. |
| 286. | ROBERTSON, Bruce. AIRCRAFT CAMOUFLAGE AND MARKINGS 1907-1954. Harleyford Publications. Letchworth, Herts. 1961. Fourth Revised Impression with addition of Squadron Badges; 232, index; fully illustrated in b/w and colour; hardcover; large format; (no d/j, cloth soiled, spine ends worn, 60mm tear on spine hinge, owner's name on endpaper) o/wise good condition. Comprehensive guide to military aircraft markings of all nations, this edition includes squadron patches. |
$29. |
| 287. | ROSIGNOLI, Guido. BADGES AND INSIGNIA OF WORLD WAR II. Air Force-Naval-Marine. Exeter Books. New York. 1983 [first published 1976]. 363; 2,500 col. illusts.; hardcover in dust jacket; A5 format; fine condition. One of the most comprehensive volumes available on this subject, includes the badges and insignia worn by the personnel of the major air forces, navies and marine services who participated in World War II, many lesser-known and unofficial badges have also been included and where relevant details of the historical background are given. |
$30. |
| 288. | ROSS, Walter s. THE LAST HERO: CHARLES A. LINDBERGH. An Inside Portrait of One of America's Greatest Legends. Manor Books. New York. 1974 [first published 1964]. Special Memorial Edition. 402, index; 27 b/w photos; cardcover; (cover soiled, light browning in the margins) o/wise good condition. Biography, when the Spirit of St. Louis landed in France in 1927, Lindbergh became an instant legend, but his passion for privacy has often made him misunderstood, a rare insight into the myth, from his earliest days as a barn-storming pilot to his later important contributions to aviation, science and conservation. |
$12. |
| 289. | ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE, Air Training Corps. MANUAL FOR CADETS. R.A.A.F. Publication. Melbourne. 1942. b/w photos, figures; hardcover; very good condition. Complilation of subjects in a World War II training manual for air training corps cadets covering topics such as: mathematics, science, navigation, meteorology, theory of flight, anti-gas, armament. |
$34. |
| 290. | ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE AIRCRAFT OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE. [Royal Australian Air Force Printing and Publications Unit]. N. P. [c. 1961]. [72]; aircraft listed from A1 - DH9A to the Phantom F4E all fully illustrated with b/w photos; stapled wrappers (soiled on back, spine chipped); (pages rippled due to water damage) o/wise good condition. Very Scarce. A guide to the numbering of Royal Australian Air Force planes, with illustrations of each type up until 1961. |
$35. |
| 291. | ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE SERIES. RAAF SAGA. Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 1944. 200, Honour Roll; fully illustrated in b/w and col. with line illustrations, paintings by official war artists and photographs. hardcover in original dust jacket; A4 format; (foxing on title page) o/wise very good condition. RAAF Christmas book of 1944, with stories by members of the RAAF, poems, anecdotes and accounts of events and actions, the third Christmas Book in the series. |
$30. |
| 292. | ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE SERIES. THESE EAGLES. Story of the RAAF at War. Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 1942. 200; fully illustrated in b/w and col. with line illustrations, paintings by official war artists and photographs. hardcover in original dust jacket; A4 format; (foxing on title page and some pages adjacent to plates) o/wise very good condition. RAAF Christmas Book of 1942, relates events and actions in the lives of members of the RAAF in the first part of World War II, the stories of a new breed of fighters, most of them little more than boys. |
$30. |
| 293. | ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE SERIES. VICTORY ROLL. The Royal Australian Air Force in its Sixth Year of War. Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 1945. 200, Honour Roll; fully illustrated in b/w and col. with line illustrations, paintings by official war artists and photographs. hardcover in original dust jacket; A4 format; (foxing on title pages and some pages adjacent to plates) o/wise very good condition. RAAF Christmas Book, relates some of the deeds performed in the final year of the Pacific War, anecdotes, poems, and accounts of operations by serving members of the RAAF. |
$30. |
| 294. | SAINSBURY, Noel Jr. BILLY SMITH EXPLORING ACE. or by Airplane to New Guinea. Cupples & Leon Company. New York. 1928. 247; frontis illust.; hardcover in (repaired) dust jacket; very good condition (inscription on e/p). Fiction, a boy-aviator's adventures in the wilds of New Guinea. |
$25. |
| 295. | SAMPSON, Anthony. EMPIRES OF THE SKY. The Politics, Contests and Cartels of World Airlines. Random House. New York. 1984. First US Edition; 254, index; hardcover in dust jacket; (glue from spine has stained endpapers) o/wise very good condition. The Author penetrates the images of the global airlines - British Airways, Pan Am, JAL, among many others - to show who really runs them, and how they have both opened up our world and circumscribed it, how the growth of Asian airlines has made the business still more competitive and political. |
$25. |
| 296. | SAMPSON, Anthony. EMPIRES OF THE SKY. The Politics, Contests and Cartels of World Airlines. Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1984. First Edition; 254, index; hardcover in dust jacket; fine condition. The Author penetrates the images of the global airlines - British Airways, Pan Am, JAL, among many others - to show who really runs them, and how they have both opened up our world and circumscribed it, how the growth of Asian airlines has made the business still more competitive and political. |
$25. |
| 297. | SCHOLES, David. AIR WAR DIARY. An Australian in Bomber Command. Kangaroo Press. Kenthurst, NSW. 1997. 144; 30 b/w photographs; cardcover; mint condition. A young man's diary kept during a tour of 35 raids piloting a Lancaster bomber in the war over Europe. Begins May 1943. |
$25. |
| 298. | SCHOLES DFC, David. AIR WAR DIARY : AN AUSTRALIAN IN BOMBER COMMAND. Kangaroo Press. Kenthurst, NSW. 1997. First Edition; 144, index, terms and abbreviations; superb b/w photographs of aircraft and places; cardcovers; mint condition. Air War Diary reveals a young man with an uncommon perception who left Australia in 1943 for the air war over Europe, to survive his tour of 35 raids piloting a Lancaster bomber all contained in a diary he kept for 2 years. Out-of-print. |
$25. |
| 299. | SCOTT, C.W.A. SCOTT'S BOOK: THE LIFE AND MILDENHALL-MELBOURNE FLIGHT OF C.W.A. SCOTT. Holder & Stoughton. London. 1934. First Edition; 264; b/w plates, fold-out text map; cloth hardcover, with title on spine [very good condition]; very good condition. Autobiography of a Royal Airforce pilot. Records his four flights made from England to Australia. Written before Scott had actually attempted the fourth trip (the Mildenhall to Melbourne MacRobertson race), with the final chapter concerning the race itself cabled to the publishers from Melbourne within six week's of the race's beginning. |
$48. |
| 300. | SCOTT, Eve, Ex-WAAAF Sergeant. A WOMAN AT WAR. McCann Publishing. Brisbane. 1985. First Edition; 75; b/w photos; stiffened cardcover; fine condition. The Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force, the author's personal account of life in the services of World War II. Scarce - out-of-print. |
$20. |
| 301. | SCUTTS, Jerry. JOLLY GREEN GIANTS. US Combat Helicopters. Hamlyn. London. 1989. 79; over 60 full colour artworks and photographs, diagrams and tables; hardcover; very good condition. The history and development of the flying gunships of the United States are described in detail with illustrations. |
$17. |
| 302. | SCUTTS, Jerry. WOLFPACK. Hunting MiGs over Vietnam. Airlife. Shrewsbury, England. 1988. First Edition; 138; fully illustrated with b/w photos; hardcover in dust jacket; (edge of d/j curled) o/wise near fine condition. Describes how the F-4 Phantom was evolved to cope with the ever-changing situation in Vietnam and how it was flown in combat against the MiGs, includes the F-4's shortcomings. |
$29. |
| 303. | SERLING, Robert J. FROM THE CAPTAIN TO THE COLONEL. An Informal History of Eastern Airlines. Dial Press. New York. 1980. 535, index; 34 b/w photos; hardcover in dust jacket (some tape marks on back flap); (new endpapers and three small library stamps) o/wise very good condition. Largely centring around Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, one of the legendary figures of American aviation, includes the rescue of Eastern by Colonel Frank Borman hero of the Apollo 8 mission. |
$35. |
| 304. | SHARPE, Michael. AVIATION ART. PRC Publishing. London. 1998. 208; over 150 images in col.; hardcover in dust jacket (buckled at bottom); large format; fine condition. Aviation art is a thoughtfully compiled gallery, displaying the history of aviation art from the two world wars, the period between the wars and post world war II, each painting accompanied by title, artist's name and an extended caption, printed on quality art paper. |
$45. |
| 305. | SINCLAIR, James. BALUS THE AEROPLANE IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Volume I. The Early Years. Robert Brown & Associates. Bathurst. 1986. First Edition; 296, index; 258 photos; hardcover in dust jacket (fine condition); inscribed by the author on the small title page, o/wise fine condition. Rare (volume 1 is always the most difficult volume to locate and is much sought after by collectors as it is out-of-print). Papua New Guinea aviation history from the end (1945) of the Second World War to 1960, the year in which QANTAS, the principal operator during this period, left PNG. The operation of the other companies (such as STOL Air Services, Aerial Tours, Douglas Airways, Summer Institute of Linguistics Air Services, Helicopter Utilities, Pacific Helicopters, Macair, Provincial Air Services, Co-Air, Panga and many others) and individuals are covered. |
$135. |
| 306. | SINCLAIR, James. BALUS THE AEROPLANE IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Volume II. THE RISE OF TALAIR. Robert Brown & Associates. Bathurst. 1988. First Edition; 296, index; 142 photos many in colour; hardcover in mint dust jacket; large format; mint condition (new). Continuing the history of PNG Aviation from 1960 to 1976. The central theme is the story of a small airline, TALAIR, and its rise to the position of one of the largest third-level operators in the world under the direction of a dynamic businessman Dennis Buchanan. As with Volume One, this Volume covers the other participants in the aviation scene during this period. Out-of-print. |
$44. |
| 307. | SINCLAIR, James. BALUS THE AEROPLANE IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Volume III. WINGS OF A NATION. Robert Brown & Associates. Buranda. 1990. First Edition; 352, index; 152 photos many in colour; hardcover in mint dust jacket; large format; mint condition (new). The last in the Balus trilogy. It brings the PNG aviation story from 1977 to the present day (1991), including the growth of the national airline, AIR NIUGINI, and the continuing fortunes of Dennis Buchanan's company, TALAIR. The amazing growth of helicopter operations in recent years is an important part of this final volume. Out-of-print. |
$44. |
| 308. | SINCLAIR, James. SEPIK PILOT. Wing Commander Bobby Gibbes, D.S.O., D.F.C. Lansdowne. Melbourne. 1971. First Edition; viii, 189, index; 47 historic photos, e/p maps; hardcover in (reproduction) dust jacket; (names and inscription on front endpaper, a few spots of foxing on small title page) o/wise good condition. Sepik Pilot is the story of the bush pilots of post war New Guinea, of their wonderful exploits, of the vital part they played in the exploration, pacification and settlement of the Sepik and the Central Highlands. It is the personal story of Wing Commander Bobby Gibbes, and his air company, Gibbes Sepik Airways. Very Scarce collector's item. |
$44. |
| 309. | SINCLAIR, James. SEPIK PILOT. Wing Commander Bobby Gibbes, D.S.O., D.F.C. Lansdowne. Melbourne. 1971. First Edition; viii, 189, index; 47 historic photos, e/p maps; hardcover in dust jacket; Authors signed presentation copy, near fine condition. Sepik Pilot is the story of the bush pilots of post war New Guinea, of their wonderful exploits, of the vital part they played in the exploration, pacification and settlement of the Sepik and the Central Highlands. It is the personal story of Wing Commander Bobby Gibbes, and his air company, Gibbes Sepik Airways. Very Scarce collector's item. |
$63. |
| 310. | SMITH, Constance Babington. AMY JOHNSON. Collins. London. 1967. 384, index; map, 36 b/w photos, 2 facsimiles; hardcover in (repaired) dust jacket; (inscription on e/p) o/wise good condition. A biography of the noted British aviator, based on contemporary records, memories of friends and Amy's private papers, includes an account of her ultimate triumph, her flight to Australia in 1930. |
$25. |
| 311. | SMITH, Norm and Frank Coglan. SECRET ACTION OF 305 [New Guinea] The Story of RAAF Radar Station No 305 in the War with Japan Royal Australian Air Force Museum. Point Cook. 1989. First Edition; 162. b/w photographs; pictorial cardcover; very good condition. Very scarce. This is an account of the life of a small Royal Australian Air Force radar unit in the islands of New Guinea during World War II. Told in a simple manner by two members of the unit, it follows their experiences in those uncertain days of Australia's darkest time. |
$33. |
| 312. | SMITH, Peter. JUNGLE DIVE BOMBERS AT WAR. John Murray. London. 1987. 182, index; 32 illustrats., 2 maps; hardcover in dust jacket; fine condition (small stamp on e/p). This book describes in detail an important tactic of the war in the Pacific, that of dive bombing, first used with great success by the Japanese and later taken up by the allies, includes Pearl Harbour, Rabaul, Guadalcanal, New Zealand's Special Squadron, Philippines. |
$35. |
| 313. | SMITH, Sir Ross. THE FIRST AEROPLANE VOYAGE FROM ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA. With 27 Aeroviews by Capt. Frank Hurley. Angus & Robertson. London. [1919] 32; 31 b/w photos; cardcover (rebacked); (owner's name and address on title page, surface of title page damaged from sticking to endpaper, insect and water damage to margins of all pages) o/wise complete. Rare. Short essay by Ross Smith on his flight followed by aerial photos, a new perspective in photography at the time of printing. |
$45. |
| 314. | STANNAGE, John. SMITHY. The Story of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. Geoffrey Cumberlege/Oxford University Press. London. 1950. v, 120; 8 plates; hardcover in (repaired) dust jacket; A5 format; (stamp on publisher's page) o/wise good condition. Biography of the noted Australian aviator written by his radio operator and personal secretary. |
$20. |
| 315. | STEENSON, Eileen. FLIGHT PLAN PNG. Rigby. Adelaide. 1974. First Edition; 189 e/p maps, 31 b/w illusts.; hardcover in dust jacket; very good condition. Personal account of a woman pilot flying with Territory Airlines in the New Guinea Highlands, told with humour, drama and sensitivity. |
$25. |
| 316. | STEPHENS, Alan. GOING SOLO. The Royal Australian Air Force 1946-1971. Australian Government Publishing Service. Canberra. 1995. xvii, 523, bibliog., index; 101 b/w photos, 20 table and figures, 8 maps; hardcover in dust jacket; mint condition. A wonderfully comprehensive history written with flair and humour, exposes past shortcomings in a balanced look at military professionalism from the prime minister through to the enlisted ranks. |
$55. |
| 317. | STEVENSON, Clare and Honor Darling, Editors. THE WAAAF BOOK. [Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force]. Hale & Iremonger. Marrickville, NSW. 1984. 288; b/w text photos; hardcover in dust jacket; fine condition. Edited from reminiscences written by former WAAAF members, includes: discrimination, why I joined, compiling secret codes, experience as a radar operator, recreation, facts on food and other things. |
$30. |
| 318. | STOKES, Gordon. CLEARED FOR TAKE OFF. Flying for Beginners. Hutchinson. Richmond, VIC. 1978. 96, index; illustrated with 90 photos and schematic drawings; hardcover; very good condition. Learning to fly a single engined light aircraft, what is involved and how one obtains a Private Pilot's Licence, taking the reader through every stage, theory of flight, instrumentation, navigation, air traffic control and radio telephony. |
$15. |
| 319. | STRODE, Hudson. SOUTH BY THUNDERBIRD. Hamish Hamilton. London. 1937. First Edition; 374; e/p maps, 27 illusts.; hardcover in (rebacked) dust jacket; very good condition (owner's signature on d/j and e/p foxing on e/papers and small title page). A record of a journey around South America by flying-boat, one of the great aviation experiences, includes Central America, Caribbean, South America East and West coasts. |
$30. |
| 320. | SWEETMAN, Bill and Lindsay Peacock. COMBAT AIRCRAFT A-10 Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II - the 'WARTHOG'. Crescent New York. 1992 Salamander 1992; 64; Features over 120 action color photographs, together with dozens of color profiles, cutaways and explanatory diagrams; Laminated pictorial hardcover; large format; fine condition.A full operational history of the USAF's dedicated tank-killer, unofficial name WARTHOG, from first prototype to deployment and combat action during Operation Desert Storm. |
$17. |
| 321. | SWEETMAN, William. A HISTORY OF PASSENGER AIRCRAFT. Optimum Books. 1979. 255, index; over 300 illustrations in b/w and colour; hardcover in dust jacket [protected]; large format; (foxing on back of endpapers and small title page) o/wise very good condition. Covers the evolution of the airliner from converted First World War bombers to the complex flying machines of the 1970s, the airships and flying boats to the supersonic Concorde. |
$19. |
| 322. | TAYLOR, Frank J. HIGH HORIZONS. The Saga of the Main Line Airway. McGraw Hill. New York. 1958. Revised Edition; ix, 237, index; e/p maps, 108 illusts.; hardcover in (chipped) dust jacket; very good condition. Very Scarce. The story of the air transport industry in America, traced primarily through the development and growth of United Air Lines. |
$40. |
| 323. | TAYLOR, John W. R., Supervising Editor. THE LORE OF FLIGHT. Park Lane. London. 1990 [first published 1971]. Fully revised and updated edition; 426, index; fully illustrated in b/w and col. with schematic drawings, water colour illustrations and photos; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; mint condition. From the first flight by Wilbur and Orville Wright to the jet-powered giants of today, historical background, structure of aeroplanes, engines and equipment and flying today, with an index covering more than 1,500 entries. |
$40. |
| 324. | TAYLOR, Michael J.H. THE WORLD'S COMMERCIAL AIRLINES. An Illustrated History of the Airlines and Their Insignia. Universal International. Gordon, NSW. 1997. 80, index; fully illustrated in colour; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; mint condition. Detailing airlines from every region of the world, from the tiniest island groups to the superstar nations, with a short history of each carrier illustrated, well reproduced photos on art paper. |
$19. |
| 325. | TAYLOR, P.G. PACIFIC FLIGHT. The Story of the Lady Southern Cross. Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1935. Second Edition; xiv, 262; e/p maps, 23 illusts.; hardcover in (reproduction) dust jacket; (inscription on small title page, spine a little sunned) o/wise very good condition. Very Scarce. This book with its remarkable story of the flight of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Captain P. G. Taylor in a Lockheed Altair, a single engine monoplane named The Lady Southern Cross, across the Pacific from Australia to the USA. Sought by aviation collectors. |
$64. |
| 326. | TAYLOR, P.G. PACIFIC FLIGHT. The Story of the Lady Southern Cross. Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1935. xiv, 262; e/p maps, 23 illusts.; hardcover in reproduction dust jacket; (spine soiled, missing title page, inscription on back of dedication page, foxing in some of the text not affecting legibility, the photographs are not affected) o/wise good condition; Very Scarce. This book with its remarkable story of the flight of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Captain P. G. Taylor in a Lockheed Altair, a single engine monoplane named The Lady Southern Cross, across the Pacific from Australia to the USA. Sought by aviation collectors. |
$39. |
| 327. | THOMAS, Gordon and Max Morgan-Witts. RUIN FROM THE AIR. The Atomic Mission to Hiroshima. Sphere Books. London. 1978 [first published 1977]. 509, index; 28 b/w illusts.; cardcover; (slight browning of margins) o/wise very good condition. Meticulously researched and graphic, based on interviews with the leading surviving participants on both sides of the conflict, diaries, government documents and unpublished material. |
$12. |
| 328. | THOMAS, Gordon and Max Morgan-Witts. RUIN FROM THE AIR. The Atomic Mission to Hiroshima. Hamish Hamilton. London. 1977. First Edition; xvii, 386, index; 28 b/w illusts.; hardcover in dust jacket; very good condition. Hiroshima was chosen for the atomic bomb, as it was the military headquarters for the Japanese High Command charged with repulsing the expected American invasion, this account of the bombing is based on interviews, diaries and government documents from both sides. |
$30. |
| 329. | TOMKINS, Nigel M.with Ricky-Dene Halliday. AIRLINER PRODUCTION LIST 1987. Aviation Data Centre Ltd. Middlesex, England. 1986. 376; 28 colour aircraft photos; cardcover illustrated in colour; fine condition.Collectors item; within the pages of this handbook are the individual histories of almost every major western-built airliner type in service throughout the world today. |
$18. |
| 330. | TUSA, Ann & John. THE BERLIN BLOCKADE. Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1988. First Edition; xiv, 445, index; 27 b/w illusts., map; hardcover in dust jacket; very good condition. The story of the Berlin Blockade that shaped Europe and set the framework for super-power relations in the nuclear age, and of the epic Berlin airlift that kept the city alive. |
$35. |
| 331. | UNITS OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE A CONCISE HISTORY VOLUME 5. Radar Units. Australian Government Publishing Service. Canberra. 1995. xiii, 152, plus plates; 37 b/w photographs; cardcover [protected]; (three words blocked out with red marker on small title page) o/wise good condition. Unit history prepared as part of the RAAF 75th Anniversary celebrations. |
$39. |
| 332. | van ISHOVEN, Armand. MESSERSCHMITT. Aircraft Designer. Wren. Melbourne. 1975. First Edition; 216, index; map, 200 b/w photos and drawings; hardcover in repaired dust jacket; very good condition. Scarce. Biography of the noted aircraft designer with many photos not previously published. |
$35. |
| 333. | VECSEY, George and George C. Dade. GETTING OFF THE GROUND. The Pioneers of Aviation Speak for Themselves. Dutton. New York. 1979. xiii, 304, index; historic b/w photos; hardcover in dust jacket; fine condition. Twenty-nine pioneer aviators re-create through their own words the by-gone era of flying, the Wright brothers, Baron von Richthofen, Amelia Earhart, John Northrop, the Lockheed brothers, barnstormers, stuntmen, designers all tell their personal histories. |
$25. |
| 334. | WALL, Robert. A HISTORY OF AIRLINERS. New Burlington Books. London. 1989 [first published 1980]. fully illustrated in b/w and colour; hardcover in dust jacket [protected]. large format; fine condition. Meteoric rise of the airliner, the first passenger services, the stately airships, the long range mail routes, the great pre-war flying boats to the latest supersonic swing wing designs, well reproduced historical photos and posters. |
$47. |
| 335. | WARNER, Denis and Peggy, with Sadao Seno. KAMIKAZE. The Sacred Warriors 1944-45. Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1983. 1st Edition; x, 290, appendices, index; 31 photos, 3 maps; stiffened cardcover; near fine condition. From interviews in Japan, research into correspondence and other war records, the Warners and Commander Seno reveal how the Kamikazes volunteered and what they discussed and felt before battle. |
$25. |
| 336. | WEEKS, John. ASSAULT FROM THE SKY. A History of Airborne Warfare. Books for Pleasure. Dee Why West, NSW. 1978. 192, bibliog., index; maps, fully illustrated with photographs in b/w & col.; hardcover in dust jacket; A4 format; very good condition. Presents the history of airborne warfare devoid of jargon and fully illustrated, includes: generals, planners and parachutists, the aircraft, gliders, weapons and helicopters. |
$35. |
| 337. | WHEELER, Barry. C. THE HAMLYN GUIDE TO MILITARY AIRCRAFT MARKINGS. An Illustrated Handbook for Aeroplane Enthusiasts & Modellers from the Great Warplanes of World War I to the Present. Hamlyn. London. 1992. First Edition; 160; fully illustrated in colour; hardcover; near fine condition. Written by one of the world's leading experts on aircraft recognition, 140 different aircraft featured from the Sopwith Camel to the F-16, many different air forces featured including the RAF, USAF, US Navy, Luftwaffe and Soviet Air Force. |
$20. |
| 338. | WHITING, Neil. WRECKS & REEFS. PORT MORESBY PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Robert Brown & Associates. Brisbane. 1994. 264, bibliog.; 198 photographs and illustrations; hardcover in dust jacket; new. Very Scarce. Wrecks and Reefs documents for the first time, the history of early shipwrecks and World War II aircraft wrecks that lie in the waters around Port Moresby, the capital city of Papua New Guinea. Out-of-Print. |
$50. |
| 339. | WIGLEY, Harry. SKI-PLANE ADVENTURE: Flying in the New Zealand Alps. A.H. & A.W. Reed. Wellington. 1965. Reprinted November 1965. 222; b/w photos, frontis map; hardcover with gilt title embossed on spine; owner's name on page opposite small title page, some staining on endpapers and and dust jacket, o/wise good condition. This book is full of background and the author's description of the country which he knows so well shows him as a keen sportsman and observer with the ability to make the reader see the country he describes. In the story of the author's Pacific war, there are no heroics, but a happy and colourful story of the life and conditions in the islands. |
$29. |
| 340. | WILKINSON, Paul H. AIRCRAFT ENGINES OF THE WORLD 1970. Wilkinson. Washington, DC. 1970 [first published 1941]. Revised Edition; 304, index; fully illustrated in b/w; hardcover; (corners bumped, foxing on e/p) o/wise very good condition. Very Scarce. Includes: photos of engines and detailed specifications. |
$39. |
| 341. | WILLIAMSON, Tony. COUNTERSTRIKE ENTEBBE. Collins. London. 1976. First Edition; 184, index; 4 text maps and plans; hardcover in fine dust jacket; fine condition. The Israeli raid on Entebbe to rescue the hostages hijacked on an Air France Airbus, based upon interviews with Israeli ministers, generals and senior officials and testimonies of the hostages and crew. |
$18. |
| 342. | WILSON, P.D. NORTH QUEENSLAND WWII 1942-1945. Department of Geographic Information. Brisbane. 1988. 68; includes fold-out coloured pocket map; pictorial cardcover; fine good condition. |
$20. |
| 343. | WILSON, Stewart. ANSON, HUDSON & SUNDERLAND IN AUSTRALIAN SERVICE. Recounting the Exciting Exploits and Achievements of Three of Australia's Most Important Reconnaissance Bombers of World War II. Aerospace Publications. Canberra. 1992. 211; fully illustrated with b/w & col. photos and technical drawings. pictorial cardcover; mint condition. Scarce. Includes a detailed history of the war service of each of the aircraft together with photos with extensive captions. |
$39. |
| 344. | WILSON, Stewart. BEAUFORT, BEAUFIGHTER AND MOSQUITO IN AUSTRALIAN SERVICE. Recounting the Exciting Exploits and Achievements of Australia's Three Light Bombers of World War II. Aerospace Publications. Weston Creek, ACT. 1990. 199; fully illustrated with technical drawings and photos in b/w; pictorial cardcover; mint condition. |
$39. |
| 345. | WILSON, Stewart. BOEING 707 DOUGLAS DC-8 & VICKERS VC10. 6 Legends of the Air. Aerospace Publications. Fyshwick, ACT. 1998. First Edition; 185; numerous colour and b/w illusts. pictorial cardcover; mint condition [mint]. In this, the sixth in the "Legends of the Air" series, the author looks at the three major narrowbody long range airliners of the late 1950s and 1960s - the Boeing 707, Douglas DC-8 and Vickers VC10 - and their military derivatives. |
$29. |
| 346. | WILSON, Stewart. BOSTON, MITCHELL & LIBERATOR IN AUSTRALIAN SERVICE. Recounting the Exciting Exploits and Achievements of Three of Australia's Most Important Bombers in WWII. Aerospace Publications. Weston Creek, ACT. 1992. 155; fully illustrated with technical drawings and photos in b/w; pictorial cardcover; mint condition. |
$39. |
| 347. | WILSON, Stewart. LINCOLN CANBERRA & F-111 IN AUSTRALIAN SERVICE. Recounting the Exciting Exploits and Achievements of The Three Bombers Which Served Australia from the End of World War II Through Till the Twenty First Century. Aerospace Publications. Weston Creek, ACT. 1989. 184; fully illustrated with technical drawings and photos in b/w and colour; pictorial cardcover; mint condition. |
$39. |
| 348. | WILSON, Stewart. MILITARY AIRCRAFT OF AUSTRALIA. Aerospace Publications. Aerospace Publications. Canberra. 1994. 216; fully illustrated in b/w and col.; cardcover; A4 format; fine condition. A comprehensive reference work on the aircraft which have served Australia's armed forces, includes: essays on the RAAF, naval flying, army aviation, photos of each aircraft type, technical specifications, and a short essay on the plane, from the tiger moths to the F-111. |
$30. |
| 349. | WILSON, Stewart. MILITARY AIRCRAFT OF AUSTRALIA. Aerospace Publications. Canberra. 1994. First Edition; 216; numerous colour and b/w photos; pictorial cardcover; fine condition. This book is an attempt to present potted histories of the aircraft which have flown with Australia's defence forces since the formation of the RAAF in 1921 and span the full gamut of technology, capability and role. |
$28. |
| 350. | WILSON, Stewart. PHANTOM, HORNET AND SKYHAWK IN AUSTRALIAN SERVICE. Recounting the Exciting Exploits and Achievements of Three of Australia's Most Important Fighter/Attack Aircraft of the Postwar Era. Aerospace Publications. Weston Creek, ACT. 1993. 187; fully illustrated with technical drawings and photos in b/w and colour; pictorial cardcover; mint condition. |
$39. |
| 351. | WILSON, Stewart. SABRE, MIG-15 & HUNTER. The Story of Three of the Classic Jet Fighters of the 1950's. Aerospace Publications. Weston Creek, ACT. 1995. 209; fully illustrated in b/w and colour; hardcover in dust jacket [protected]; large format; mint condition. An in depth look at the three most important jet fighters of the 1950's together with information on the countries that flew them. |
$32. |
| 352. | WILSON, Stewart. SEA FURY, FIREFLY AND SEA VENOM IN AUSTRALIAN SERVICE. Recounting the Exciting Exploits and Achievements of Three of Australia's Most Important Naval Aircraft of the Poswar Era. Aerospace Publications. Weston Creek, ACT. 1993. 152; fully illustrated with technical drawings and photos in b/w and colour; pictorial cardcover; mint condition. |
$39. |
| 353. | WILSON, Stewart. SPITFIRE, MUSTANG AND KITTYHAWK IN AUSTRALIAN SERVICE. Recounting the Exciting Exploits and Achievements of Three of History's Greatest Fighter Planes in the Defence of Australia. Aerospace Publications. Weston Creek, ACT. 1988. 185; fully illustrated with technical drawings and photos in b/w and colour; pictorial cardcover; mint condition. |
$39. |
| 354. | WILSON, Stewart. TIGER MOTH, CT-4 WACKETT & WINJEEL IN AUSTRALIAN SERVICE. Recounting the Development and History of Four of Australia's Important Primary Trainers. Aerospace Publications. Weston Creek, ACT. 1994. 194; fully illustrated with technical drawings and photos in b/w and colour; pictorial cardcover; mint condition. Very scarce. |
$39. |
| 355. | WILSON, Stewart. VAMPIRE, MACCHI AND IROQUOIS IN AUSTRALIAN SERVICE. Recounting the Exciting Exploits and Achievements of Three of Australia's Most Important Postwar Military Aircraft. Aerospace Publications. Weston Creek, ACT. 1994. 198; fully illustrated with technical drawings and photos in b/w and colour; pictorial cardcover; mint condition. |
$39. |
| 356. | WILSON, Stewart. WIRRAWAY, BOOMERANG & CA-15 IN AUSTRALIAN SERVICE. Recounting the Exciting Exploits and Achievements of Three of the Australian Aircraft Industry's Vitally Important World War 2 Projects. Aerospace Publications. Weston Creek, ACT. 1991. 238; fully illustrated with technical drawings and photos in b/w and colour; pictorial cardcover; mint condition. |
$39. |
| 357. | WINGS Incorporating Air Force News Official Magazine of the R.A.A.F. Director of Public Relations for Personnel of the R.A.A.F., W.A.A.A.F., A.T.C. & V.A.O.C. Melbourne. Fortnightly Vol 1 No 1, 14 March 1944 to Vol 6 No 2, 15 December 1945, missing Vol 1 Nos 7,8 & 9, o/wise a complete set inclusive of 63 issues. average of 30 pages per issue; fully illustrated with photos and drawings; very good condition, clean copies. A rare nearly complete set, of interest to historians and collectors of aviation and military memorabilia. |
$195. |
| 358. | WINTON, John. AIR POWER AT SEA 1939-45. Book Club Associates. London. 1976. First Edition; 185, select bibliog., notes, index; b/w photos; hardcover, with gilt title embossed on spine, in pictorial dust jacket [protected]; very good condition. Illustrated by some of the most dramatic war pictures ever published, this book highlights the part aircraft played in all the great actions of the World War II. The author examines in detail the influence of the aircraft, its success and its failures, over the whole span of the WWII at sea. |
$16. |
| 359. | WITCOMB, Nan. UP HERE AND DOWN THERE. Nan Witcomb. Brighton, SA. 1986. x, 339; e/p illust., text fully illustrated in b/w; hardcover; (small book shop stamp on e/p) very good condition. A personal account with letters, photographs, cartoons and memorabilia, representing over fifty years of air hostessing in Australia with Australian National Airways, Ansett and subsidiary airlines, funny, surprising and some tragic memories are recounted. |
$30. |
| 360. | WIXTED, Edward P. THE LAST FLIGHT OF BERT HINKLER. Vantage Press. New York. 1992. Australian Edition. x, 195; fully illustrated in b/w; hardcover in dust jacket; signed by author on title page, new (out-of-print). The story of the Australian long-distance aviator who disappeared in 1933 while on a solo flight from England to Australia, his body and wreckage were later discovered in the Tuscan mountains of Italy, includes new evidence on the cause of the crash. Very Scarce (limited print run - privately printed). |
$40. |
| 361. | WIXTED, Edward P. THE NORTH-WEST AERIAL FRONTIER 1919-1934. Australian Pioneers of Flight. Boolarong. Brisbane. 1985. viii, 216, index; fully illustrated with maps and historical photos; hardcover; large format; mint condition. Includes: some men, women and flying machines seen in north-west Australia in the pioneering period, international flights, round-Australia flights, and the completion of the Darwin air link to the eastern states of Australia. |
$40. |
| 362. | WOODWARD, Jack. THREE TIMES LUCKY. From the Wartime Diaries of the Author. Boolarong. Brisbane. 1991. First Edition; vi, 230, index; maps, b/w photos; hardcover in dust jacket; fine condition. A personal account of an airman who volunteered in the RAAF during World War II, he was stationed in Singapore just before the war with Japan broke out, the account includes escapes from two aircraft crashes and one near crash. |
$30. |
| 363. | WRIGHT, Alan J. BRITISH AIRPORTS. Ian Allan Ltd. London. No Date. Second Edition; 80; line views of runways and building locations; cardcover; A5; (cover rubbbed) o/wise good condition. Includes; brief history of each airport, location and access, terminals, operators, movements, runways, radio frequencies, telephone number, drawing. |
$12. |
| 364. | YENNE, Bill. THE HISTORY OF THE US AIR FORCE. Bison Books. London. 1987. Reprint of 1984; 224, index; fully illustrated with maps and photos mainly in colour; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; very good condition. The story of the US Air Force since it became an independent force in 1947, well illustrated with large photographs, includes: Korea, Southeast Asia, training, communication and electronic warfare, the US Air Force in space, aircraft and missile designations. |
$45 |
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