Lisa Maxwell Editor (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed by author.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Paperback - clean, no marks, clean inside, - from a private collection - Helicopter Evolution shares vintage images, 1907 thru 1974, of the creative visionaries who experimented with new rotorcraft designs continually pushing the envelope. The book shows the inventions, improvements and advancements of helicopters that were captured on film and have been lost or forgotten for decades. Taken from a private archive of vintage commercial rotorcraft photographs that are seldom seen, forgotten companies like; American Helicopter, Bendix, Brantley, Cessna, Curtis-Wright, and Curtiss-Wright, de Bothezat, Domain, Firestone, Helicopter Engineering, Mc Culloch, Marquardt and Roteron reappear. Many other better known companies are included, including companies like: Boeing, Sikorsky, Hiller, Piasecki, Kaman and Kellett. Author John Cilio leads readers through the chronological development of the helicopter, including the autogiro with vintage photographs. Each photograph is accompanied by informative narrative about the people and the helicopter often provided from the original press release. He closes the book paying tribute to Vietnam s Huey pilots with a poem, The Huey Pilot, by , I. S. "Bob" Parrish and photos of the Huey and Cobra.

softcover, large format. Condition: good condition. "Far and away the most complete account of Britain's 226 airships." - Battlebags is the first book to record and describe in detail every single airship built or used by Great Britain during the First World War. Affectionately named 'battlebags' by their crews and 'pigs' by the local civilian inhabitants, Royal Naval Air Service airships were a familiar sight around Britain's shores. At least 226 airships of all types were built and operated by the Royal Navy during the war in a bid to beat the deadly Gerrnan U-boat menace. - Ces Mowthorpe describes the development of the airship in the years leading up to the First World War and the part it was destined to play in the years that followed. The background to each class is given together with details of individual airships, including where they were built and stationed, their known crews, plus technical information and particulars of notable flights and total hours flown. - Battlebags is the culmination of more than thirty years research and is fully illustrated with over 150 rare photographs 113 p. many photos and illustrations.