hooper ralph w (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. First Edition. The item is brand new, never used or read. It's in perfect condition and may include supplements and/or access codes or come shrink-wrapped.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine-. 1st Edition. 342 pages in near fine condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white diagrams, tables, and graphs throughout. Page edges are lightly smudged. Bound in blue-grey cloth with silver titles on the spine. Lightly bumped around the edges. Blue and grey dustjacket in near fine condition with black titles. Faded on the spine. Lightly worn around the edges. A small label on the spine. 1ST EDITION. SCARCE. NF/NF- Size: 8 1/2 x 10. Book.

Zustand: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 4to 11½'' x 8½''. Contains 258 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and archive photographs throughout. Camm was President of the Royal Aeronautical Society(RAeS) from 1954 to 1955. Since 1971 the RAeS has held the biennial Sir Sydney Camm Lecture in June, given by the current commander-in-chief of RAF Air Command. He retired as chief designer at Hawker in 1965 and was succeeded by the editor of this book, John W. Fozard, however, he remained on the board of its successor, Hawker Siddeley until his death. Before he died, Camm was planning the design of an aircraft to travel at Mach 4, having begun his life in aircraft design with the building of a man-carrying glider in 1912, just nine years after the first powered flight. In 1966, he was awarded the Guggenheim Gold Medal, which had to be presented posthumously. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper. SIGNED by the author and Ralph Hooper [Harrier] to a fellow designer to the title page 'For Harry Frazer-Mitchell - Longtime and valued member of the design team in Jump - Jet alley, With all good wishes and warmest regards John W. Fozard, January 1994', also SIGNED 'Ralph Hooper'. Loosely enclosed is a signed pristine signature penned in blue fountain ink on a 5.75 x 2.5 inch custom made white collectors card SIGNED 'S. Camm', dated on verso as February 1964. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 1853102709 AVIATION & AERONAUTICS.