Everest frank (20 Ergebnisse)

Unknown. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback, 253pp, illustrated, pages browning, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, spine creased, cover edges rubbed and scuffed, Fair condition. ISBN: 0425093018.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Name of the previous owner. Foreword by Major-General Albert Boyd U.S.A.F. Publication of 204 pages. There is gilt on the spine of the book. Frontispiece. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. There is light foxing around the block and on the first and last pages. The text within the book is bright and clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 242 pages. 8.90x5.90x0.60 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 244 pages. 6.00x0.56x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Grinnell, Iowa: Herald Publishing Company, 1893. First edition, 1893. Attractively bound volume of poetry by students at Iowa College. Patterned hardcover with white cloth spine elaborately decorated in gilt, gilt top, red and black ribbon bookmarks, 82 pages. Covers age-toned at the spine end edges, corners and spine ends worn, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages with two darkened from placement of the bookmarks, name on rear free endpaper. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.…

Hard cover, dust jacket , torn dust jacket, 204 pages, black and white photographs throughout.

mass_market. Zustand: Good. Shows minor wear, light tanning.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 305 pp. ; LCCN: 63-17530 ; OCLC: 681418 ; black cloth in great 1960s style photographic dust jacket ; stories by Robert S. Elegant, Ralph Lowenstein, Peter Kihss, Robert Notson, William Kreger, Flora Lewis, Wilfrid Fleisher, Everest Derthick, RIchard Witkin, Henry Giniger, Stuart Loory, William Dwight, Kim Willenson, John Hulteng, David B. Rogers, Sache de Gramont, Larry Jinks, Carl W. Ackerman, Ahmed Emin Yalman, John Tebbel, Mort Stern, William McGaffin, Walter J. Pfister, Otto D. Tolischus, Robert E. Garst, Michael Ogden, Howard Dietz, Mathew Gordon, Frank Scully, Herbert Brucker, M. Lincoln Schuster, Maxwell F. Geffen, Hal Borland, Damon Stetson, Charles T. Alexander, Jr., F. F. McNaughton, J. R. Gallagher, Henry Beetle Hough, Milton Bracker, Josepoh Jones, John Ho henberg, Richard Schaap, John Crider, A. D. Rothman, Dorothy Ducas, Theodore M. Bernstein, Vance Packard, Wayne Parrish, Elliott Sanger, Betsy Wade, Henrietta Poynter, William GIles, Robert M. Hall, Douglas Tomlinson, David Frown, George Allen, Gerald Green, Oliver Gramling, Dallas S. TOwnsend, Jr., Jules Bergman, and Reuven Frank ; slight foxing ; VG/FINE. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. First Edition. Some foxing to page edges. Some chips and tears and creasing to margins of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket is price-clipped.; xiii, [1], 204, [2 (blank)] pages. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 214 x 138mm. With a Foreword by Major-General Albert Boyd, U.S.A.F. "The personal life story of the world-famous American rocket plane pilot" - from front panel of dust-jacket. "In the Bell X-2 he made thirteen flights, exploring the unknown, discovering the effects of the heat barrier that builds up at supersonic speeds. He was the first man to touch close on Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) and, in the words of the citation of the Harmon award, 'is the fastest man alive, having flown faster than 1,900 miles per hour'." - from dust-jacket blurb.…

Zustand: good, fair to poor. First Edition. 253, illus., DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ worn: several tears, large pieces missing, name stamped inside front flyleaf. Lt. Col. Frank Everest, Jr., was the chief test pilot of the U.S. Air Force.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Generic January 1953 Binding: Hardcover.

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 253pp, [3]. Publisher's dark blue cloth, title in gilt on the spine. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Illustrated with a photographic frontispiece and black-and-white photographic plates. In the publisher's first state jacket, $4.00 retail price on the front flap, numerous tape repairs to verso, closed tears along front hinge. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Arnold - I sincerely appreciate all that you did, without which this book would not have been possible - Frank K. Everest, Jr. / Lt. Col. USAF." Frank Everest, Jr. (1920-2004) served as chief Air Force test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base in the 1950's. In 1954, Everest flew the Bell X-2 rocket plane, and reached Mach 2.9 establishing an unofficial speed record of 1,957 mph and earning the designation "the fastest man alive." He surpassed Chuck Yeager's prior record, set in 1947 in the Bell X1 plane. The first edition of The Fastest Man Alive, inscribed by Frank K. Everest, Jr., the US Air Force Test Pilot. (illustrator). Signed.…

Signed photograph of Frank Kendall Everest, Jr. Inscribed on the photograph, "To my good friend Stu McLennan from-- Frank K. 'Pete' Everest Jr. ÂLt. Col. USAF," showing the Bell X-2 rocket-powered aircraft. The photograph measures 7.5 inches by 10 inches. Brigadier General Frank Kendall "Pete" Everest, Jr. was a United States Air Force officer who is best remembered as an aeroengineer and test pilot during the 1950s. In September 1951 he was transferred to the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and became the chief Air Force test pilot as head of the Flight Test Operations Division. During his stay at Edwards, General Everest tested the X-1, 2, 3, 4 and 5; XF-92 and YB-52. He also took part in test programs for the F-88, 100, 101, 102, 104 and 105; the B-52, B-57 and 66 aircraft. On October 29, 1953, he established a world speed record of 755.149 mph in a F-100A. General Everest test-flew the Bell X-1B to a speed of Mach 2.3 (2.3 times the speed of sound) in December 1954, making him the second fastest man in the world, Later flights in the Bell X-2 rocket plane established him as "the fastest man alive" when he attained a new unofficial speed record of 1,957 mph or Mach 2.9. …

Photograph of the first aircraft to break the sound barrier. Glossy black-and-white photograph of the Bell X-1 rocket-powered aircraft, nicknamed "Glamorous Glennis," in flight. Boldly signed by eight of the program's test pilots: Chuck Yeager, Frank "Pete" Everest, Chalmers "Slick" Goodlin, Bob Champine with "NACA X-1 pilot, 1950," John H. Griffith, Gus Lundquist, Joe Cannon, and Scott Crossfield. In fine condition. The piece measures 10 inches by 8 inches. Rare and desirable. The Bell X-1 was a rocket engine-powered aircraft, designated originally as the XS-1, and was a joint National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics-U.S. Army Air Forces-U.S. Air Force supersonic research project built by Bell Aircraft. Conceived during 1944 and designed and built in 1945, it achieved a speed of nearly 1,000 miles per hour (1,600 km/h) in 1948. A derivative of this same design, the Bell X-1A, having greater fuel capacity and hence longer rocket burning time, exceeded 1,600 miles per hour (2,600 km/h) in 1954. The X-1, piloted by Chuck Yeager, was the first manned airplane to exceed the speed of sound in level flight and was the first of the X-planes, a series of American experimental rocket planes (and non-rocket planes) designated for testing of new technologies and often kept secret.…

Photograph of the first aircraft to break the sound barrier. Glossy black-and-white photograph of the Bell X-1 rocket-powered aircraft, nicknamed "Glamorous Glennis," in flight. Boldly signed by nine of the program's test pilots: Chuck Yeager, Bob Hoover, Frank "Pete" Everest, Chalmers "Slick" Goodlin, Robert A. Champine with "X-1 pilot, NACA, Muroc, CA, 1949," John H. Griffith, Gus Lundquist, Joe Cannon, and Scott Crossfield. In near fine condition. The piece measures 10 inches by 8 inches. Rare and desirable. The Bell X-1 was a rocket engine-powered aircraft, designated originally as the XS-1, and was a joint National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics-U.S. Army Air Forces-U.S. Air Force supersonic research project built by Bell Aircraft. Conceived during 1944 and designed and built in 1945, it achieved a speed of nearly 1,000 miles per hour (1,600 km/h) in 1948. A derivative of this same design, the Bell X-1A, having greater fuel capacity and hence longer rocket burning time, exceeded 1,600 miles per hour (2,600 km/h) in 1954. The X-1, piloted by Chuck Yeager, was the first manned airplane to exceed the speed of sound in level flight and was the first of the X-planes, a series of American experimental rocket planes (and non-rocket planes) designated for testing of new technologies and often kept secret. …