Marc dierikx (54 Ergebnisse)

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Hardback. Zustand: Good. Comprehensive biography of Anthony Fokker, the famed Dutch pilot and daredevil aviator Anthony Fokker: The Flying Dutchman Who Shaped American Aviation tells the larger-than-life true story of maverick pilot and aircraft manufacturer Anthony Fokker. Fokker came from an affluent Dutch family and developed a gift for tinkering with mechanics. Despite not receiving a traditional education, he stumbled his way into aviation as a young stunt pilot in Germany in 1910. He survived a series of spectacular airplane crashes and rose to fame within a few years. A combination of industrial espionage, luck, and deception then propelled him to become Germany's leading aircraft manufacturer during World War I, making him a multimillionaire by his midtwenties. When the German Revolution swept the country in 1918 and 1919, Fokker made a spectacular escape to the United States. He set up business in New York and New Jersey in 1921, and shortly thereafter became the world's largest aircraft manufacturer. The U.S. Army and Navy acquired his machines, and his factories equipped legendary carriers such as Pan American and TWA at the dawn of commercial air transport. Yet despite his astounding success, his empire collapsed in the late 1920s after a series of ill-conceived business decisions and deeply upsetting personal dramas. In 1927, aviator Richard Byrd solicited a Fokker three-engine plane to be the first to fly non-stop across the Atlantic. The plane was damaged on a test flight and Charles Lindbergh beat him to it. Lindbergh's solo adventure in the Spirit of St. Louis earned him--and cost Fokker--a lasting place in the history books. Using previously undiscovered records and primary sources, Marc Dierikx traces Fokker's extraordinary life and celebrates his spectacular achievements.…

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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.

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.

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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

Hardback. Zustand: New.

Zustand: Good. Paperback, illustrated with numerous photographs (mostly in colour), oblong (circa 20x21cm).

Zustand: Good. Paperback, illustrated with numerous photographs (mostly in colour), oblong (circa 20x21cm).

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 246 pages. 9.84x6.69x0.98 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. DJ is crisp and glossy. Book is bound in black cloth over boards with silver lettering in the spine. Binding is tight and secure. Corners are square. Pages are crisp, clean, and bright. Praeger. No date on title page. Copyright page is dated 2008. 202 pages. A very good copy. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. We ship everyday from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it?s properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.…

Zustand: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

First edition hardback with dust wrapper. The book is bound with a black buckram spine over blue paper covered boards, the titles are blocked in gilt on the spine. The book measures 9½" x 6¼", it has xi + 250 pages and is well illustrated with b/w photographs. The wrapper, binding and contents are in excellent condition. VG+/VG+.…

Smithsonian History of Aviation series. First edition. xi+250 pages with index. Illustrated. Cloth. Fine in like dustjacket. Ask to see our other Aviation titles.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket is free of edge wear and in a clear mylar cover. Covers are bound in blue cloth with white lettering on the front cover and spine. Binding is tight, corners are slightly bent. 342 clean and bright pages. Images are printed in B&W. Overall, this book is in very good condition. This volume comes from the aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime educating, writing, editing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation, ships, castles, Churchill, and more. We have several hundred volumes from his collection in other listings as well as in our physical store. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.…

Zustand: New.

Hardcover met stofomslag. 295 pagina's. Nieuwstaat. Anthony Fokker (1890-1939) was al tijdens zijn leven een legendarisch figuur, die echter maar door weinigen werkelijk werd gekend. Deze biografie beschrijft hoe de zoon van een Indische koffieplanter die maar niet leren wilde, kon opklimmen tot wereld's grootste en meest vooraanstaande vliegtuigbouwer en hoe hij die positie ook weer verloor. Het verhaal beweegt zich van het Javaanse Blitar naar een zolder in Haarlem, van het vliegveldje in Mainz naar het revolutionaire Berlijn van de Spartakisten, van Amsterdam naar een dramatisch dieptepunt in New York, en van de besneeuwde hellingen van Sankt Moritz naar de kalme oevers van de Hudson-rivier. Daar tussenin wordt het tragisch verlopen persoonlijke leven van de eeuwige reiziger Fokker verbonden met de ups en downs in de zakelijke carrière van deze Nederlander/Duitser/Amerikaan. Op basis van nooit eerder bij elkaar gebrachte gegevens uit tal van archieven in binnen- en buitenland heeft de auteur een unieke biografie geschreven. Behalve e 777g.…

Zustand: New. This is a Brand-new US Edition. This Item may be shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

Den Haag, Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, 2010. Paperbound. 104 pp. New copy. (ING-Congresreeks).

Zustand: New.

Zustand: Used. pp. xi + 202 Illus.

Zustand: Used. pp. xi + 202.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Comprehensive biography of Anthony Fokker, the famed Dutch pilot and daredevil aviatorAnthony Fokker: The Flying Dutchman Who Shaped American Aviation tells the larger-than-life true story of maverick pilot and aircraft manufacturer Anthony Fokker. Fokker came from an affluent Dutch family and developed a gift for tinkering with mechanics. Despite not receiving a traditional education, he stumbled his way into aviation as a young stunt pilot in Germany in 1910. He survived a series of spectacular airplane crashes and rose to fame within a few years. A combination of industrial espionage, luck, and deception then propelled him to become Germany's leading aircraft manufacturer during World War I, making him a multimillionaire by his midtwenties.When the German Revolution swept the country in 1918 and 1919, Fokker made a spectacular escape to the United States. He set up business in New York and New Jersey in 1921, and shortly thereafter became the world's largest aircraft manufacturer. The U.S. Army and Navy acquired his machines, and his factories equipped legendary carriers such as Pan American and TWA at the dawn of commercial air transport.Yet despite his astounding success, his empire collapsed in the late 1920s after a series of ill-conceived business decisions and deeply upsetting personal dramas. In 1927, aviator Richard Byrd solicited a Fokker three-engine plane to be the first to fly non-stop across the Atlantic. The plane was damaged on a test flight and Charles Lindbergh beat him to it. Lindbergh's solo adventure in the Spirit of St. Louis earned him--and cost Fokker--a lasting place in the history books. Using previously undiscovered records and primary sources, Marc Dierikx traces Fokker's extraordinary life and celebrates his spectacular achievements.…

Hardback. Zustand: New. Mixing in elements of pop culture, Dierikx provides a chronological history of the evolution of air travel. He covers the significant challenges and developments in air transportation for a specific period, starting with how and why aviation came to play an important role in international politics and economic relations. He follows with an examination of how improvements in technology influenced existing concepts of distance, created new travel patterns, and what effect the growth in numbers of passenger and cargo had on air transportation. Finally, Dierikx looks at how airlines have become increasingly detached from national interests and state control, concluding with an overview of the current state of air travel, and a description of the role air transportation played in the creation of a global society.At the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is difficult to imagine our world without aircraft. Airplanes are everywhere, and rapid air transport has become one of the necessities of our time. Yet one of the peculiarities of powered flight is that it has stayed in the public focus for over a century. Clipping the Clouds looks at the history of aviation in a challenging new way, covering not just the technology, but the way aviation has interacted with society since its very beginnings.Mixing in pop culture-each chapter opens and closes with an excerpt from a movie that depicts elements of air transport illustrating the chapter's theme-Dierikx provides a chronological history of the evolution of air travel since 1919. He covers the significant challenges and developments in air transportation for each of four chronological periods, starting with how and why aviation came to play an important role in international politics and economic relations. He follows with an examination of how improvements in technology influenced existing concepts of distance, created new travel patterns, and what effect the growth in numbers of passenger and cargo had on air transportation. Finally, Dierikx looks at how airlines have become increasingly detached from national interests and state control, concluding with an overview of the current state of air travel and a description of the role air transportation has played in the creation of a global society.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New. MARC DIERIKX is a senior researcher at the Huygens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published some fifteen books on the history of aviation, air transport, and other topics.Comprehensive biography of Anthony Fok.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 216 pages. 9.13x6.06x0.55 inches. In Stock.