Scheppler robert h (7 Ergebnisse)

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

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Cover has light wear. Pages are clean/intact.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First Edition. (w/dj)A clean tightly bound hardcover copy. Unmarked, gently read, showing gentle head and foot wear to the spine and edges of the dust jacket and lightly bumped corners. A really nice copy overall.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Signed. dedicated and signed by the author on the cover. shows minor wear.

Hardcover. Presumed first edition/first printing. vii, [1], 148 p. Illustrations. Aircraft Specifications. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. In 1927 James D. Dole offered $25, 000 to the first flier to cross from North America to Honolulu. Only two of the seven planes that started made it. From the dust jacket: "From a prospective field of thirty pilots, fifteen entered the race, but only nine were ready for take-off on August 16, 1927. Three planes had crashed en route to Oakland; three participants were dead. Others withdrew, were disqualified, or never showed up. To the cheers of 75, 000 people, eight planes managed to take off into the fog over San Francisco. Tragically, seven more died during the course of the race. Only two planes finished the trip: the Woolaroc reached Wheeler Field in a little over 26 hours and the Aloha arrived a couple of hours later. Fifty thousand people were there to greet them, ." Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ is in a plastic sleeve and has slight wear and soiling.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Spine ends lightly bumped, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Illustrated with black and white photographs. The true story of the first Pacific air race, August 16, 1927.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Features: Checkertails - History of the 325th Fighter Group Part I - August 1942-May 1944; The Martin Clippers; China and Hawaii Clippers; Philippine Clipper; Beachey's Little Looper; Curtiss Reims Racer - On August 28th, 1909, at Reims, France, Glenn Curtiss won the first aeroplane race held in the world; First Aero Squadron in Mexico; Winging to San Antonio - Bill Taylor and Jim Barton ferry a de Havilland DH-4 from California to Texas; The Many Faces of 22-1117; Navy and Marine DH-4 Aircraft; DH-4 And the Air Mail; First New Zealand Flight - Richard Pearse; Waldo Dean Waterman; Days of the Waco Ten; Old Sabres Never Die; Bibliography Section; and more. Exceptionally well-illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos. Pages 155-226. Cover features photo of a Republic P-47D-10-RE of the 325th Fighter Group. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this very informative vintage issue.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Journal of the American Aviation Historical Society, A.A.H.S., Fall 1965, Volume 10 Number 3, Robert Baseler, Herschel H. Green, Lincoln Beachey, Checkertails, 325th Fighter Group, Martin Clipper, China Clipper, Hawaii Clipper, Philippine Clipper, Beachey. …