U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEW

Parachute Supplement of Air Commerce Regulations (January 1, 1931) (Aeronautics Bulletin No. 7-D)

Washington D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1931. Stapled wraps. This is a thin, trade sized booklet with self covers and a stapled spine. The covers have noticeable toning, and several creases. The The cover corners have creases as well. The text pages are clean, but also toned. "The experience with parachutes during the war highlighted the need to develop a design that could be reliably used to exit a disabled airplane. For instance, tethered parachutes did not work well when the aircraft was spinning. After the war, Major Edward L. Hoffman of the United States Army led an effort to develop an improved parachute by bringing together the best elements of multiple parachute designs. Participants in the effort included Leslie Irvin and James Floyd Smith. The team eventually created the Airplane Parachute Type-A. This incorporated three key elements: Storing the parachute in a soft pack worn on the back, as demonstrated by Charles Broadwick in 1906; A ripcord for manually deploying the parachute at a safe distance from the airplane, from a design by Albert Leo Stevens; and A pilot chute that draws the main canopy from the pack." (from Wikipedia). Good .

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Book number: 40422

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics U. S. Department Of Commerce Aeronautics Bulletins Parachutes Air Commerce Regulations Aeronautics / Astronautics

THE COMMONWEALTH

Aviation in California (Transactions of the Commonwealth Club of California Vol. XXIV, No. 6) (Part II)

San Francisco, CA: The Commonwealth, 1929. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. This is a trade sized paperback booklet with self covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The top edge of the front cover has several spots of discoloration / foxing. The spine and foredges of the covers have noticeable toning. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a folded map of California for the frontispiece and several graphs and illustrations throughout the book. Included are: Introductory remarks by President Cheney, Aviation in Legislation by Carl I. Wheat, Report of the Aviation Section by Edward G. Sheibley, Insurance for Those Who Fly by Henry S. Dunn, Airport Management and Development presented by George D. Burr, Future Airports for the Bay Region by Ralph T. Fisher, and more.. Very Good- .

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Book number: 40419

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics The Commonwealth Club Of California Aviation San Francisco, CA Airports Aeronautics / Astronautics

BOEING COMPANY

767 Manuals - United Airlines (Ual 767-222) Va006 (Prepared for 676 Airplane Systems Training - This Particular Manual Is for Microprocessors )

Boeing Company, 1982. 1st Printing. 3-ring binder. B&W Illustrations; This is a three ring binder with individual unbound pages, and dividers for separate sections, including: Manuals, General Description & Structures, Digital / Micro Porcessor System & Haley. The text pages are in clean, bright condition. "The manuals have been prepared by the Boeing Commercial Airplane Company in accordance with the Air Transport Association of American Specification Number 100...The subject matter in the manuals is divided into chapters and groups of chapters to facilitate the location of information e using personnel . " (from the introduction). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 42936

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Boeing Company 767 Airplanes Microprocessors Training Manuals Boeing Training Manuals

BOEING COMPANY

Boeing Everett Home of the 747 /757

Everett, WA: Boeing Company, 1978. Ephemera. Color Illustrations; This item is one sheet folded into thirds making a brochure. The brochure is in Very Good+ condition and also includes two illustratedplates of artists renderings - one of the 747 and one of the 767. The brochure gives an overview of the new facilities in Everett, WA where the two airplanes would be assembled, some information on the specifics of the two airplanes, and a potted biography of the company itself. "The Boeing Company is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, and satellites worldwide. The company also provides leasing and product support services. Boeing is among the largest global aircraft manufacturers; it is the second-largest defense contractor in the world based on 2015 revenue, and is the largest exporter in the United States by dollar value. Boeing stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.". Very Good+ .

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Book number: 35690

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aviation Boeing Company Boeing 747 Boing Assembly Plant Everett, Washington Aviation

BOEING COMPANY

Boeing Airliner (Commercial Airplane Division) November - December 1965

Renton, WA: Boeing Company, 1965. Booklet. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The text pages are clean and bright.. Very Good .

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Book number: 40037

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Boeing Company Commercial Airplanes Boeing Airliner Aeronautics / Astronautics

BOEING AIRPLANE COMPANY

Boeing Service Guide (for the Stratocruiser) Issue No. 3, December 1947 - Issue No. 7 - April 1948; Alphabetical Index

Seattle, WA: Boeing Airplane Company, 0. Stapled wraps. This is a group of Boeing Service Guides (issues 3-7, and an index that runs through Jan. 1950) . The guides are in Very Good condition. All of the guides have hole punches so they can be added to a binder. There is a bit of light wear and creasing to the spine ends and corners of the guides (they have been used by mechanics). The text pages are all clean and bright. The index has the most wear and tear, along with a couple of small edge teawrs, and grubbiness to the covers. All of the guides are focused on the Boeing Stratocruiser. "On November 29, 1945 Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) became the launch customer with the largest commercial aircraft order in history, a $24,500,000 order for 20 Stratocruisers. Earlier in 1945 a Boeing C-97 had flown from Seattle to Washington, D. C. Nonstop in six hours and four minutes; with this knowledge, and with Pan Am President Juan Trippe's high regard for Boeing after their success with the Boeing 314 Clipper, Pan Am was confident in ordering the expensive plane." (from Wikipedia). Very Good .

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Book number: 47481

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Boeing Airplane Company Stratocruiser Boeing Service Guides Service Guides

CURTISS AEROPLANE AND MOTOR COMPANY

The Curtiss Standard Jn4-D Military Tractor Handbook

Appleton, WI: Aviation Book Company, 0. Facsimile. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; Facsimile reprint. This is a trade paperback book with heavy cardstock covers and a glued spine and was issued without a dust jacket. The book is in Very Good+ condition. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning ground-in dirt to the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "The Curtiss Model J (along with the Curtiss Model N) was a prototype tractor configuration aircraft that became the basis for the Curtiss Jenny series of aircraft...The Model J had the engine mounted on the nose of the aircraft with a tractor propeller and was covered with clear doped linen or cotton, with tandem seating and conventional landing gear with a tailskid. The biplane wings were built without dihedral and the upper wing was considerably greater in span than the lower and fitted with ailerons. The Curtiss Model J S. C. No. 30 became the testing prototype for the JN, earning the title as the first "Jenny"." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 39427

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Curtiss Aeroplanes Curtiss Jenny World War I Airplanes Airplane Technology Aeronautics / Astronautics

SPARTAN AIRCRAFT COMPANY

Speed - for Business for Pleasure

Tulsa, OK: Spartan Aircraft Company, 1928. Stapled wraps. Color Illustrations; This is an oversized promotional booklet with self covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Fair only condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The booklet has edge wear, rubbing, bumping and wrinkling, along with places that look like the item has been run over by some vehicle on a gravel road leaving little dings, bumps and embossments throughout. There are old spots discoloration throughout the text pages (possibly mold spore - which has been treated). There are several small tears throughout. Though a not very pretty copy, this brochure is important in the history of early aviation. Included are descriptions of The Spartan C-3 -166 and the Spartan C-3-225 and their engines, The Comet, and the Wright "Whirlwind Seven". "Successful oilman William G. Skelly purchased the struggling Mid-Continent Aircraft Manufacturing Company of Tulsa in January, 1928. He renamed the company Spartan Aircraft Company, reorganized it financially and began the Spartan School of Aeronautics. Skelly continued to support the venture during the early years of the Great Depression, while it began producing a line of airplanes. The economic depression strained Skelly's personal finances, and in 1935, J. Paul Getty purchased a controlling interest in the company from Skelly. At the beginning of World War II, Getty assumed direct control of the company operations. He expanded manufacturing by making sub-assemblies for warplanes and opened branches of the Spartan School of Aeronautics in Miami, Muskogee and Ponca City, Oklahoma. The first aircraft produced by the Spartan Aircraft Company was the Spartan C3 open-cockpit biplane. Built in 1926 (first flight 25 October 1926) , the C3-1 was the first of a series of variants of the design for flight schools, sportsman aviators, and Fixed-Base Operators (FBO). The Spartan C3-225 was the last early biplane design produced by the company. At least 160 C-3 aircraft were built, using various engines." (from Wikipedia). Fair .

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Book number: 40468

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Spartan Aircraft Company Bi-planes Early Aviation Spartan C-3-166 Spartan C-3-225 The Wright Whirlwind Seven Engine

COOK, KEN / AMERICAN AIRMAN

American Airman Magazine Volume IV Number 9, September 1961

St. Paul, MN: American Airman, 1961. Magazine. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized magazine. The covers have some beginning bumping, rubbing and some beginning wrinkling. The front cover has been stamped SAMPLE COPY. The text pages are clean and bright. Articles include: Propwash, Second Annual Marlboro Fly-in, First Transcontinental Flight, Air Racing was Like this, Remember Jimmie Doolittle, First Spartan Alumni Reunion, Merced Highlighters, More Aerobatics, and more. "This magazine was published by the Antique Airplane Association, then located in Ottumwa, Iowa. It has information on antique private (General Aviation) airplanes of the 1920's and 1930s era, and the people who were collecting , restoring, and flying them back then. It covers mostly commercially manufactured planes, and also some home built planes. " (Byrd Aviation Books website). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 38416

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Ken Cook American Airman Magazine Aviation Planes Aeronautics / Astronautics

COOKE, JULIA

Come Fly the World the Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

New York, NY: Mariner Books, 2021. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0358251400. B&W and Color Illustrations; 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.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 46611

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: 0358251400 Airlines Julia Cooke Stewardesses Flight Attendants Pan-Am Airline Airlines

COOKE, DAVID C.

The Story of Aviation

New York, NY: Archer House, Inc, 1958. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some light bumping and wear, along with a couple of very small edge nicks to the top edges.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 46210

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics David C. Cooke Airplanes History Of Aeronautics Jet Age

UNITED AIR CRAFT CORP.

Bee-Hive Summer 1958

East Hartford, CN: United Aircraft Corp, 1958. Magazine. B&W Illustrations; This magazine is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The magazine covers haev some light bumping and rubbing, along with beginning creasing. The text pages are clean and bright. Included are: The Boom Boom Valley, by Robert Zaiman, Testing at High Machs, Sir Hiram's Steam-Powered WInged Machines by Frank L. Murphy, Tackling the Hot Fuel Puzzle by Richard Hull, and more.. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 39073

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics United Air Craft Corp. The Bee-hive Aviation United States Air Force Aviation Innovation Technology Aeronautics / Astronautics

JAY PUBLISHING CORP. (EDITED BY CHARLES HAMPSON GRANT)

Universal Model Airplane News February 1935 (Vol. XII, No. 1)

Mount Morris, IL: Jay Publishing Corp, 1935. Magazine. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized magazine with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The magazine is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The bottom spine end of the cover has a one inch-long tear, and the spine ends and corners of the covers have some light rubbing and wear. The text pages are clean and bright. "Model Airplane News is a monthly magazine focusing upon the hobby of radio control airplanes. Model Airplane News reviews radio control aircraft from backyard flyers, to giant scale airplanes, and features how-to articles, product reviews, modeling technology, and construction projects. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .

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Book number: 37427

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Jay Publishing Corp. Charles Hampson Grant Model Airplanes Carpentry Aviation

AIRCRAFT RADIO CORPORATION

Aircraft Radio Corporation : Using the A.R. C. Type 15c (an/Arn-30) Vhf Navigational Receiving Equipment (Instructions for the Cockpit Instruments and Control Unit)

Boonton, NJ: Aricraft Radio Corporation, 1953. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized instruction book for the ARC Navigational Receiving Equipment Cockpit Instruments and Control Unit. The booklet is in Very Good condition and wsa issued without a dust jacket. The rear cover includes several lightly pencilled airplane diagrams. The text pages are clean and bright. "Aircraft Radio Corporation (ARC) -- not to be confused with Aeronautical Radio, Inc. (ARINC) -- was a principal pioneer and major manufacturer of avionics for military and commercial aircraft, and later general aviation (light) aircraft, from the 1920s to the 1950s—subsequently acquired and rebranded by a succession of other companies, each of whom changed the official name, of the enterprise, while initially continuing ARC's primary function, staffing, facilities and product focus. Consequently, many in the aviation industry—including many within its current and former parent companies—have unofficially referred to ARC, by its original name, as a continuing specific entity, regardless of its official names or owners at any point in time." (from Wikipedia). Very Good .

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Book number: 40296

Catalogue: Aeronautics / Astronautics

Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Aircraft Radio Corporation Navigation Cockpit Instruments Control Units Airlines Aeronautics / Astronautics

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