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Gail Sanders
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Acker, William P (Commander). United States Air Force. The Airmen of Lackland Air Force Base, Basic Military Training. Josten's American Yearbook, 1979 (?). Large hardback w/o dj, approx. 60 pages, 3743 Squadron, color photos, very good condition.....$10 ((cs341)) Purchase! Question?
Anderson, Roy A. A Look at Lockheed. Newcomen Publication Number 1186. Princeton University Press, 1983, first printing. Ex-library soft cover with staple binding, clear tape on spine, 52 pages, clear tape along inside hinges, few b&w photos & diagrams, good condition. A history of the Lockheed Corporation given by the CEO in 1982 at a meeting of the Newcomen Society in North America.....$15 ((ml3177)) Purchase! Question?
Baker, David. Spaceflight and Rocketry. A Chronology. Facts On File, 1996. Large ex-library hardback w/dj, mylar jacket, 528 pages, few b&w photos, good condition.....$17 ((mlo21)) Purchase! Question?
Barlay, Stephen. The Search for Air Safety. An International Documentary Report on the Investigation of Commercial Aviation Accidents. William Morrow, 1970. Ex-library hardback w/dj, mylar jacket, 376 pages, few b&w photos. Published in Britain as "Aircrash Detective"....$5.50 ((gc6832)) Purchase! Question?
Bell, Dana. USAF Colors and Markings in the 1990s. Stackpole Books, 1992. Large soft cover, 144 pages, b&w illustrations with paint chip colors in back, 144 pages, very good condition.....$11.50 ((bw1226)) Purchase! Question?
Caidin, Martin. Planetfall. The Coming Exploration of Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Beyond. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1974. Ex-library hardback w/dj, dj laminated & glued, 249 pages, b&w photos, good condition....$5 ((gc5649f)) Purchase! Question?
Chant, Christopher. The History of the RAF. From 1939 to the Present. Special revised edition. Grange Books, 1993. Large hardback w/dj, dj is scuffed/scratched/1" tear back dj, color and b&w photos, 183 pages plus index, very good condition....$9.50 ((gc2348i)) Purchase! Question?
Chester, Michael. Rockets and Spacecraft of the World. W.W. Norton, 1964. Ex-library hardback w/dj, mylar jacket, 205 pages, b&w photos, tape foxing, cardboard showing cover edges, solid reading copy.....$5 ((cs1435)) Purchase! Question?
Christopher, John. Riding the Jetstream. The story of ballooning: from Montgolfier to Breitling. John Murray, 2001. Ex-library hardback w/dj, mylar jacket, 256 pages, few color photos, index, good condition.....$15 ((ml3062)) Purchase! Question?
Drake, Colonel Rollen H. Aircraft Electrical Systems, Hydraulic Systems, and Instruments. Macmillan, 1949. Hardback w/dj, dj frayed/shelf wear, 393 pages, few b&w photos, very good condition.....$7 ((gc4174t)) Purchase! Question?
Drake, Colonel Rollen H. Aircraft Engines. Macmillan, 1948. Hardback w/o dj, cover edges bumped/worn/cardboard showing, 348 pages, pages yellowing, few b&w photos, good condition.....$30 ((gc4574x)) Purchase! Question?
Editors of Light Plane Maintenance Magazine. Basic and Advanced Light Plane Maintenance. Fuel and Oil Systems. Belvoir Publications, 1988. Hardback w/o dj, endpapers folded, 179 pages, few b&w photos, very good condition.....$8.50 ((cs840)) Purchase! Question?
Editors. Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Volume II. ConAC Manual 50-9, April 1949. Air Force ROTC Continental Air Command, 1949. Large hardback w/o dj, black cloth, covers scuffed, large "classification cancelled" stamp with signature on title page, paginated by chapter, very good condition. This was originally a restricted manual.....$30 ((cs12g)) Purchase! Question?
Editors. International Tensions and Security Organizations. Air Science 1, Volume IV. 1957 Edition. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957. Hardback w/o dj, b&w photos, 171 pages, very good condition.....$25 ((gc6707)) Purchase! Question?
Editors. Museum of Flight. 100 Years of Aviation History. Elton-Wolf Publishing, 2002. Large narrow hardback w/dj, dj shows shelf wear, b&w and color photos, DVD included, 192 pages, very good condition.....$45 ((ml1485n)) Purchase! Question?
Elliott, James C. and Gene Guerny. Pilot's Handbook of Navigation. Aero Publishers, 1977. Large hardback w/o dj, previous owner inscription, 384 pages, cover scuffed, overall very good condition ....$8 ((gc2348a)) Purchase! Question?
Froesch, Charles and Walther Prokosch. Airport Planning. John Wiley & Sons, 1946, 2nd printing. Large hardback w/o dj, brown cloth, 250 pages, b&w photos and diagrams, very good condition.....$22 ((gc3635)) Purchase! Question?
Fry, Bernard M. and Foster E. Mohrhardt (editors). A Guide to Information Sources in Space Science and Technology. Volume 1. Interscience Publishers, 1963. Ex-library hardback w/o dj, grey cloth, front hinge separation, 579 pages, good condition....$15 ((gc6905f)) Purchase! Question?
Green, William, Gordon Swanborough, and John Mowinski. Modern Commercial Aircraft. Portland House, 1987. Large hardback w/dj, with 575 full-color and b&w illustrations, red remainder dot, dj is scuffed/scratched/soiled slightly, 208 pages, good condition....$5 ((gc2348k)) Purchase! Question?
Grindle, Link. Flying-Off the Pavement! A Manual for the Amateur Bush Pilot. Lasenda Publishers, 1978, 3rd printing. Hardback w/o dj, previous owner inscription, 260 pages, very good condition.....$5.75 ((gc6830)) Purchase! Question?
Gunston, Bill (foreword by F/A 18 test pilot Jack Krings). Stingers. The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18. Mallard Press, 1990. Large hardback w/dj, 5" tear in front dj, label remains on dj, dj scuffed & dented, filled with color photos, unpaginated, approx. 120 pages, good condition ....$7.50 ((gc2348c)) Purchase! Question?
Gunston, Bill. Grumman. Sixty Years of Excellence. Orion Books, 1988. Large hardback w/dj, b&w and color photos, 157 pages plus index, very good condition.....$14 ((gc6839)) Purchase! Question?
Haining, Peter (compiled by). The Dream Machines. An eye-witness history of Ballooning. World Publishing, 1973. Large hardback w/dj, dj is price clipped/frayed/torn, b&w and color illustrations, 180 pages, very good condition.....$13 ((go133)) Purchase! Question?
Hall, James Norman. High Adventure. A Narrative of Air Fighting in France. Houghton Mifflin, 1918. Hardback w/o dj, red cloth, book is skewed, previous owner incriptions, 237 pages, b&w photos, good condition.....$20 ((gc6828)) Purchase! Question?
Hardy, M.J. The Lockheed Constellation. Arco Publishing, 1973. Ex-library hardback w/dj, dj laminated & glued, 128 pages, b&w photos, good condition.....$35 ((ml2634)) Purchase! Question?
Hirsch, S. Carl (illus. by Burt Silverman). The Globe for the Space Age. Viking Press, 1963. Ex-library hardback w/dj, mylar jacket, 88 pages, library binding, good condition.....$5 ((gc5649g)) Purchase! Question?
Hoyt, Edwin P. (illus. by George J. Zaffo). Heroes of the Skies. Doubleday, 1963, First Edition. Ex-library hardback w/o dj, library rebound, 160 pages, good condition.....$10 ((cs934)) Purchase! Question?
Isby, David C. Jane's Air War 1. Fighter Combat in the Jet Age. HarperCollins, 1997. Large hardback w/dj, dj shows shelf wear, b&w and few color photos, 192 pages, very good condition.....$8 ((bw1223)) Purchase! Question?
Johnson, Brian. Classic Aircraft. A Century of Powered Flight. Channel 4 Books, 1998. Large hardback w/dj, mylar jacket, bumped corner/pages, color photos, 156 pages, good condition.....$9 ((gc6846)) Purchase! Question?
Jones, Bradley. Elements of Practical Aerodynamics. Second Edition. Johnw Wiley & Sons, 1939. Hardback w/o dj, maroon cloth, personal library stamp, previous owner inscription, 436 pages, few pencil notations, otherwise very good condition....$5 ((gc6905e)) Purchase! Question?
Kinert, Reed. Racing Planes and Air Races. 1969 Annual (Covering 1968 Air Races). Volume V, Reference Series No. 1. Aero Publishers, 1969. Hardback w/o dj, blue cloth, b&w photos and diagrams, very good condition.....$28.75 ((ml2039)) Purchase! Question?
Lehn, Howard M. Seventy Years of Commercial Aviation. Ye Galleon Press, 1998. Large ex-library soft cover, laminated covers, clear tape along inside hinges, 187 pages, few b&w photos, good condition.....$15 ((ml1238p)) Purchase! Question?
Lowery, John. Professional Pilot. Iowa State University Press, 1983, First Edition. Hardback w/dj, dj shows shelf wear, 155 pages, few b&w diagrams & tables, very good condition.....$10 ((ml2037)) Purchase! Question?
Lucas, John W. (editor). Heat Transfer and Spacecraft Thermal Control. Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics. Volume 24. MIT Press, 1971. Ex-library hardback w/o dj, tape marks front cover, 658 pages plus index, good condition. Technical papers selected from the AIAA 8th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 1970, and the AIAA 5th Thermophysics Conference, June-July 1970, subsequently reviewed for this volume.....$35 ((gc3421d)) Purchase! Question?
McIntosh, Colin H. Radio Navigation for Pilots. Instrument Flight Part Two. McGraw-Hill, 1943. Hardback w/o dj, green cloth, foxing, pages browning, 183 pages, few folded pages, good condition....$5.50 ((gc4240s)) Purchase! Question?
Mondey, David (illus. by Gordon Davies). Rockets and Missiles. The Knowledge Library. Grosset & Dunlap, 1971. Large hardback w/o dj, pictorial cover, 75 pages, color illustrations, very good condition....$5 ((gc2348h)) Purchase! Question?
Moore, Patrick (illus. by David A. Hardy). Space. The story of man's greatest feat of exploration. Natural History Press, 1969. Large hardback w/dj, dj frayed/torn/rubbed, 216 pages, b&w and color photos, price sticker on spine, overall very good condition....$10 ((gc2348p)) Purchase! Question?
Muirhead, John. Those Who Fall. An Unforgettable Chronicle of War in the Air. Random House, 1986, Book Club Edition. Hardback w/dj, dj shows shelf wear/fraying, 258 pages, very good condition.....$25 ((ml2145)) Purchase! Question?
Niu, Michael Chun-Yung. Airframe Structural Design. Practical Design Information and Data on Aircraft Structures. Conmilit Press, 1988. Large hardback w/o dj, staple mark front endpaper, 612 pages, text is clean/unmarked, very good condition.....$100 ((ml155l)) Purchase! Question?
O'Brien, Frank J. with Timothy R.V. Foster. Every Man a Tiger. Mock-Combat Flying Techniques for Light Aircraft. Ziff-Davis, 1981. Hardback w/dj, dj shows shelf wear, 259 pages, bumped corners, b&w and color photos, good condition.....$10 ((ml2043)) Purchase! Question?
Phillips, Sydney H. with C. Wisberg. Aircraft Processes. Crocker-Union, 1941. Hardback w/o dj, covers rubbed/scuffed, 176 pages, pages yellowing, few b&w photos, overall very good condition.....$15 ((cs1168)) Purchase! Question?
Poole, Lynn (illus. by Gustav Schrotter). Ballooning in the Space Age. Whittlesey House, 1958. Ex-library hardback w/dj, mylar jacket, front endpaper removed, 160 pages, bumped corner, tape foxing, good condition.....$7 ((gc2883t)) Purchase! Question?
Richmond, Samuel B. Regulation and Competition in Air Transportation. Columbia University Press, 1961. Hardback w/o dj, price stamp front endpaper, 309 pages, ink text underlining, two pages show foxing from newspaper clipping, good condition.....$85 ((ml712n)) Purchase! Question?
Stine, G. Harry. Shuttle into Space. A Ride in America's Space Transportation System. Follett, 1978. Ex-library hardback w/dj, mylar jacket, front endpaper torn, dj frayed, 127 pages, b&w and few color photos, good condition.....$5.50 ((cs610)) Purchase! Question?
Tagg, Michael C. World War II Battle in the Air. Mallard Press, 1990. Large hardback w/dj, dj is scratched/frayed slightly, 176 pages, b&w photos, very good condition....$7 ((gc2348j)) Purchase! Question?
Thomson, William Tyrrell. Introduction to Space Dyamics. John Wiley & Sons, 1961. Hardback w/o dj, previous owner inscription, 317 pages, very good condition.....$8.75 ((gc4174u)) Purchase! Question?
Van Allen, James A. (editor). Scientific Uses of Earth Satellites. Second Revised Edition. University of Michigan Press, 1958. Ex-library hardback w/dj, mylar jacket, tape foxing, 316 pages, good condition.....$10 ((cs1046)) Purchase! Question?
Ziegler, Mano (trans. by Alexander Vanags). Rocket Fighter. Doubleday and Company, 1963. Ex-library hardback w/dj, mylar jacket, few folded pages, tape foxing, back dj flap cut/trimmed, 161 pages, b&w photos, good condition.....$15 ((ml2396)) Purchase! Question?