Author: COURTNEY, FRANK T.
Title: The Eighth Sea
Description: Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1972. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There is some light rippling to the spine of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has several tears, nicks and chips missing. The spine of the dust jacket has some toning and darkening. "Frank T. Courtney (1894-1982) was born in London and was one of the few aviators that could make the claim that he was there for it all. He started his career with an apprenticeship at the Grahame-White Aircraft Company in 1913 and attained his pilot’s certificate in August 1914 flying primitive box-kite airplanes. He attained the rank of Captain while serving in the Royal Flying Corps in WWI while flying in a Morane-Saulnier “Parasol. ”After the war Courtney became a test pilot for De Havilland and in between testing planes he was an avid air racer. The early 1920’s saw Courtney pioneer airline service routes between Britain and the European Continent across the English Channel for Daimler Airways. In 1925 Courtney tested the newly invented autogiro and helped with its development into a practical concept. Courtney’s next pioneering venture came in 1927 and 1928 when he tried and failed on two separate occasions to prove the concept of an airline service route between Europe and North America by flying unsuccessfully across the Atlantic from east to west. " (from Online Archive of California). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: Biographies Frank T. Courtney Aviation Early Aviation Curtis-wright Corp. Hydroplanes De Havilland Test Pilots
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Title: The Eighth Sea
Description: Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1972. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There is some light rippling to the spine of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has several tears, nicks and chips missing. The spine of the dust jacket has some toning and darkening. "Frank T. Courtney (1894-1982) was born in London and was one of the few aviators that could make the claim that he was there for it all. He started his career with an apprenticeship at the Grahame-White Aircraft Company in 1913 and attained his pilot’s certificate in August 1914 flying primitive box-kite airplanes. He attained the rank of Captain while serving in the Royal Flying Corps in WWI while flying in a Morane-Saulnier “Parasol. ”After the war Courtney became a test pilot for De Havilland and in between testing planes he was an avid air racer. The early 1920’s saw Courtney pioneer airline service routes between Britain and the European Continent across the English Channel for Daimler Airways. In 1925 Courtney tested the newly invented autogiro and helped with its development into a practical concept. Courtney’s next pioneering venture came in 1927 and 1928 when he tried and failed on two separate occasions to prove the concept of an airline service route between Europe and North America by flying unsuccessfully across the Atlantic from east to west. " (from Online Archive of California). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: Biographies Frank T. Courtney Aviation Early Aviation Curtis-wright Corp. Hydroplanes De Havilland Test Pilots
Price: US$ 15.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 44362
- Book number: 44362
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