GRUMMAN AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING CORPORATION

Grumman 1943 Calendar

Long Island, NY: Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, 1943. Spiral bound. Color Illustrations; This a hard cover calendar for the year 1943. The book has card covers and a spiral binding. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The covers have several small spots of ground-in dirt. The text pages are clean and bright. The calendar pages are mostly clean and bright, though there are a couple of handwritten notations to the calendar squares. There is a previous owner's inked notation on the reverse of the rear endpaper. This calendar was published for the use of people in the Grumman company. "Leroy Grumman and others worked for the Loening Aircraft Engineering Corporation in the 1920s, but when it was bought by Keystone Aircraft Corporation and the operations moved from New York City to Bristol, Pennsylvania, Grumman and his partners (Edmund Ward Poor, William Schwendler, Jake Swirbul, and Clint Towl) started their own company in an old Cox-Klemin Aircraft Co. Factory in Baldwin on Long Island, New York. All of the early Grumman employees were former Loening employees. The company was named after Grumman because he was its largest investor." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 40047

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Grumman Aircraft Company Calendars

HILLER AIRCRAFT CORPORATION

Hiller Highlights Volume 1 Number 1 (Fall 1958)

Palo Alto, CA: Hiller Aircraft Corporation, 1958. Other. B&W Illustrations; This newsletter has illustrated covers and a glued spine. The newsletter is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The text pages are clean and bright. "The H-23 Raven performed as a utility, observation, and MedEvac helicopter during the Korean War. Model numbers ranged A through D, F and G. The H-23A had a sloping front windshield. The H-23B was used as a primary helicopter trainer. Beginning with the UH-23C, all later models featured the "Goldfish bowl" canopy similar to the Bell 47. The Raven used Hiller's "Rotor-Matic" cyclic control system, with two small servo rotor paddles offset 90 degrees to the main rotor blades. The paddles were attached to the control column, so that movement of the column would cause the pitch of the servo paddles to change, loading the main rotor blade so that the desired cyclic changes to the rotor occurred. The OH-23 had a top speed of 97 mph (84 knots). The Raven had a two-bladed main rotor, a metal two-bladed tail rotor. Both the OH-23B and the OH-23C were powered by one Franklin O-335-5D engine. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine .

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Book number: 40286

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Hiller Aircraft Corporation Helicopters Light Helicopters Hiller 12E

LOCKHEED CORPORATION

Lockheed Life (July 1982)

Burbank, CA: Lockheed Corporation, 1982. Magazine. B&W Illustrations; This magazine is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The magazine has been folded several times (as if to be put in a pocket). The text pages are generally clean and bright - however three paragraphs regarding C-5 and 747 planes have been underlined.. Very Good- .

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Book number: 40290

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Lockheed Corporation C-5 Airplanes 747 Airplane Aviation Aeronautics / Astronautics

LOCKHEED CORPORATION

Lockheed Horizons Fall 1981

Burbank, CA: Lockheed Corporation, 1981. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Color Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book with illustrated covers and a glued spine. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. Included are the articles: Quarter-Century of USAF/ Lockheed airlifters, ACMA-Fact or Fantasy, History of Flight Testing the L-1011 Part Two, and more.. Near Fine .

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Book number: 40912

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Lockheed Corporation Aviation Aerospace Engineeringsa History Of Aviation Aeronautics / Astronautics

LOCKHEED CORPORATION

Lockheed Horizons Winter 1981/1982

Burbank, CA: Lockheed Corporation, 1981. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Color Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book with illustrated covers and a glued spine. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. Included are the articles: Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, Development of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, J58/ SR-71 Propulsion Integration, and more.. Near Fine .

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Book number: 40913

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Lockheed Corporation Aviation Aerospace Engineeringsa History Of Aviation Aeronautics / Astronautics

LOCKHEED CORPORATION

Lockheed Horizons Spring 1981

Burbank, CA: Lockheed Corporation, 1981. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Color Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book with illustrated covers and a glued spine. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. Included are the articles: MK 86: A Major Advance in Naval Gun Fire Congrol by John J. Lochbaum, Profile Louis N. Ridenour by Dr. William F. Whitmore, Airborne Emergency Hospital by Ray Merl, and more.. Near Fine .

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Book number: 42336

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Lockheed Corporation Aviation Aerospace Engineeringsa History Of Aviation Aeronautics / Astronautics

LOCKHEED CORPORATION

Lockheed Horizons Winter 1979 / 80

Burbank, CA: Lockheed Corporation, 1980. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Color Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book with illustrated covers and a glued spine. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. Included are the articles: The Changing Horizons for Technical Progress - Part 1 by R. H. Hopps, OTEC - Electricity from the Ocean by Dr. William F. Whitmore, Washing Water Alternatives to Waste Water Treatment by Dennis Brining, Dr. Richard F. Srna, and more.. Near Fine .

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Book number: 42337

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Lockheed Corporation Aviation Aerospace Engineeringsa History Of Aviation Aeronautics / Astronautics

GRUMMAN AEROSPACE CORPORATION

Raven News Winter 1984

Bethpage, NY: Grumman Aerospace Corporation, 1984. Magazine. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized magazine with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The magazine and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. Contents include: Ready, Willing and Able, Responsibility Transfer, Eighth and Final Mt. Home SATAF, Saylor Creek Electronic Combat Range, EF-111A Raven, ATE put to Good Use, 42nd ECS, and more. "The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading 20th century U. S. Producer of military and civilian aircraft. Founded on December 6, 1929, by Leroy Grumman and partners, it merged in 1994 with Northrop Corporation to form Northrop Grumman.". Near Fine .

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Book number: 35679

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aviation Grumman Aerospace Corp. The Grumman Raven Airplanes Raven News

BEECH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION

This Is Flying 1995 Style Beechcraft Model C50 Twin-Bonanza

Wichita, KS: Beechcraft Aircraft Corporation, 1955. Other. Color and B&W illustrations; This is an oblong brochure in landscape format. The brochure is in Very Good condition with stapled wraps. The spine ends and corners of the brochure ahve some beginning rubbing and edge wear. The interior pages are clean and bright. "The Beechcraft Model 50 Twin Bonanza is a small twin-engined aircraft designed by Beechcraft as an executive transport for the business market. It was developed to fill a gap in Beechcraft's product line between the single-engined Model 35 Bonanza and the larger Model 18. The Twin Bonanza is about 50% larger than the Bonanza, has more powerful engines, and is significantly heavier, while in its earliest form having only half the passenger capacity of the Model 18." (from Wikipedia). Very Good .

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Book number: 40414

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

SCINTILLA MAGNETO DIVISION / BENDIX AVIATION CORPORATION

Three Separate Booklets Bound Into One Folder: Two By Bendix Aviation, the Third By B.F. Goodrich Includes: Service Parts List Bendix Ignition Systems for Pratt & Whitney / Bendix-Scintilla Ignition Service Instructions (1948) / Installation and Maintenance of B.F. Goodrich Airplane Breaks, Etc.

Sidney, NY: Scintilla Magneto Division, 1953. Revised Edition. Binder. B&W Illustrations; Form L-347-2L Service Parts List Bendix: Low Tension - High Altitude Ignition Systems used on Pratt & Whitney aircraft Engines (revised September 1953) / Form L-153-2: Service Instructions: Bendix-Scintilla Ignition System used on Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major Aircraft Engines (Revised October 1948) / Installation and Maintenance of B. F. Goodrich Airplane Brakes and Wheel Assemblies (Split Type Main Landing Wheel , S. C. Nose Wheel , Airplane Brake (no date). All Three pamphlets (oversized booklets are in Very Good condition and have three whole punches. All three of the booklets have been put into a heavy cardboard folder. There is foxing to the title page of the first booklet. The text pages are generally clean and bright. "Starting in the 1950s or before, Bendix Pacific designed, tested, and manufactured hydraulic components and systems, primarily for the military. In the same facility avionics and other electronic hardware was designed, manufactured, and documented in technical manuals. Much of this operation was relocated to a new facility in Sylmar, CA where they had a large deep indoor pool for testing sonar. Telemetry components for the RIM-8 Talos surface-to-air missile included transmitters and oscillators in various frequency bands; the missile itself was designed and built by Bendix. They built and installed the telemetry system in all the ground stations for the first crewed space flights. For this program, they developed the first cardio tachometer and respiration rate monitor system so that a ground-based physician could observe an astronaut's vital signs. MK46 torpedo electronics also came from this facility. Other diverse products included radar detectors in aircraft that identified ground missile tracking and ground missile launch at the aircraft. In the 1960s they produced an anti-lock brake system for military aircraft using established technology similar to Dunlop's earlier Maxaret. The technology is similar to the notched wheel and reluctor now used in cars. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .

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Book number: 43883

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Bendix Aviation Pratt & Whitney Aircraft B. F. Goodrich Company Ignition Systems Airplane Parts Aviation

NATIONAL AVIATION EDUCATION COUNCIL

U.S. Aviation Today - 1957

Washington, D. C.: National Aviation Education Council, 1957. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have some light bumping an rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright.. Very Good .

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Book number: 44484

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics National Aviation Education Council Airplanes Missles National Defense

COURTNEY, FRANK T.

The Eighth Sea

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 .

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Book number: 44362

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Biographies Frank T. Courtney Aviation Early Aviation Curtis-wright Corp. Hydroplanes De Havilland Test Pilots

CROCKER, MEL

Black Cats and Dumbos Wwii's Fighting Pbys

Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Aero Publishers, 1987. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0830683917. Trade PB. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing and wear to the book covers, along with some light scratching. "As American dominance in the Pacific Ocean began to face competition from Japan in the 1930s, the U. S. Navy contracted Consolidated, Martin and Douglas in October 1933 to build competing prototypes for a patrol flying boat. Naval doctrine of the 1930s and 1940s used flying boats in a wide variety of roles that today are handled by multiple special-purpose aircraft. The U. S. Navy had adopted the Consolidated P2Y and Martin P3M models for this role in 1931, but both aircraft were underpowered and hampered by inadequate range and limited payloads. Consolidated and Douglas both delivered single prototypes of their new designs, the XP3Y-1 and XP3D-1, respectively. Consolidated's XP3Y-1 was an evolution of the XPY-1 design that had originally competed unsuccessfully for the P3M contract two years earlier and of the XP2Y design that the Navy had authorized for a limited production run. Although the Douglas aircraft was a good design, the Navy opted for Consolidated's because the projected cost was only $90,000 per aircraft. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 45426

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: 0830683917 Aeronautics / Astronautics Mel Crocker Catalina Seaplane Patrol Bombers Pby's Aviation World War II

CULBERT, TOM & ANDY DAWSON

Pan Africa Across the Sahara in 1941 with Pan Am

Mclean, VA: Paladwr Press, 1998. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0888962126. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author on the half title page. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "The story like the vital wartime link itself, stretches from the shores of the United States, down to South America, across the Atlantic, Africa, the Middle East, and on to India and finally across the forbidding, often deadly “roof of the world” – the Himalayas – to China. There was nothing commonplace about any of the adventures Culbert and Dawson so excellently document. There was certainly danger at times, but things to laugh at as well, as Pan American’s secret wartime operations sent Americans around the world. The book is excellently illustrated with both rare photographs and publisher Ron Davies’ superb maps. " (from PanAm) ; Signed by One Author. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 47974

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: 0888962126 Aeronautics / Astronautics Tom Culbert Andy Dawson World War II Airlines Airplanes Burma Evacuation Signed Edition

DAVIS, LARRY

F-102a Delta Dagger in Action - Aircraft No. 199

Carrollton, TX: Squadron/Signal Publications, 2005. Stapled wraps. ISBN: 0897474945. Illustrated by Don Greer & David Gebhardt. B&W and Color Illustrations; This is an oblong paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some lightish rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "The Convair F-102 Delta Dagger[N 2] was an American interceptor aircraft designed and manufactured by Convair. Built as part of the backbone of the United States Air Force's air defenses in the late 1950s, it entered service in 1956. Its main purpose was to intercept invading Soviet strategic bomber fleets (primarily the Tupolev Tu-95) during the Cold War. A total of 1,000 F-102s were built. A member of the Century Series, the F-102 was the USAF's first operational supersonic interceptor and delta-wing fighter. It used an internal weapons bay to carry both guided missiles and rockets. As originally designed, it could not achieve Mach 1 supersonic flight until redesigned with area ruling. The F-102 replaced subsonic fighter types such as the Northrop F-89 Scorpion, and by the 1960s, it saw limited service in the Vietnam War in bomber escort and ground-attack roles" (from Wikipedia). Very Good .

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Book number: 44425

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: 0897474945 Aeronautics / Astronautics Larry Davis Don Greer David Gebhardt F-102A Delta Dagger Jet Fighters