Ralph S Barnaby (30 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Condition: 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.

Trade paperback. Condition: Fine. 70 p. illus. 24 cm. Includes Illustrations.

Soft cover. Condition: VG+. 2nd Edition.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good to Very Good-. [1st printing] June 1970; #S5414. Cover art is uncredited. Tear at spine head; creasing; tanning; foxing; minor soiling. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Solid binding. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

mass_market. Condition: Acceptable. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.…

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

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Paperback in good condition. Pages in good clean condition.

mass_market. Condition: Good. 1978 paperback with tight spine and looks unread. Downgraded from very good because of mark on cover from removed price sticker. Good to very good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Trade paperback in very good condition.

Condition: Good. paperback, 109pp, illustrated, slight browning, text clean and tight, no inscriptions, spine slightly faded and rubbed, Good condition. ISBN: 0330235877.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Squarish octavo, softcover, VG in yellow wraps laminated for preservation. 70 pp. with step-by-step instructions, diagrams by the author -- a sure fire success to making and flying paper airplanes. Illus By Author (illustrator). Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 6th Prtg.

Condition: New.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. The Reminiscences of Capt. Ralph S. Barnaby, USN (Ret.): 1893-1986. Book.

Illustrations by the author. Some minor marks to FEP, otherwise Very Good condition. The dustwrapper has some edge wear and a 2" closed tear to rear cover.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Expert Guidance: includes aerodynamaics and making making kinds of aircraft, even including a Seagull. Well Illustrated with the author's B&W In-Text Drawings. 70 Pages, 290g, 9 1/4" Tall. Some wear to cover with a large chip (1" squarw) to bottom corner, wear at other corners and closed tears (2" long) at either side of top of spine. Library stamp on preliminary page. Ffep removed. Tobacco odour. Pages in good condition, no inscriptions. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Barnaby, Ralph S. ( Captain ) (illustrator).…

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 64 pages. 11.00x8.50x11.00 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Condition: Good. Scholastic Book Service Stated first printing, May 1969. General scuffing and creasing to wraps. Pen inscription to front inner wrap. Tanning to pages and inner wraps.

Hardback. Condition: New. Barnaby was the first person in the United States to earn a soaring license. He began developing gliders not long after the pioneering work of Orville and Wilbur Wright. The memoir of his naval service focuses primarily on his glider experiences, including his achievement as the first person to descend by glider from an airship, the USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), in 1930 He later used gliders in naval aviation training at Pensacola, Florida. During World War II he was an engineer at the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia and commanding officer of the Naval Air Modification Unit at Johnsville, Pennsylvania.…

Condition: Gut. How To Make Fly Paper AirlinesZustand akzeptabel B1899-10 Sprache: Englisch.

Hardback. Condition: New. Barnaby was the first person in the United States to earn a soaring license. He began developing gliders not long after the pioneering work of Orville and Wilbur Wright. The memoir of his naval service focuses primarily on his glider experiences, including his achievement as the first person to descend by glider from an airship, the USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), in 1930 He later used gliders in naval aviation training at Pensacola, Florida. During World War II he was an engineer at the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia and commanding officer of the Naval Air Modification Unit at Johnsville, Pennsylvania.…

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Photograph, 10 x 8 inches, of a smiling Barnaby landing on a snowy field in a Kegel-Flugzeugbau Kassel glider, captioned on verso: "Lt. Comdr. Barnaby in glider / Had Glider license No. 1 in U.S." Stamped on verso: "In Publishing, Credit Must Be Given as Follows 'Official Photograph U.S. Navy.'" Nice clean printed, creases at two corners, a third chipped (not into image). (7179). Barnaby (1893-1986) reminisced about flying a glider in a brief sketch he wrote for the July, 1953, edition of 'Aero Digest': "Back during the summers of 1929 and 1930, the American Motorless Aviation Corporation had a gliding school on the sand dunes of Cape Cod. In those days, gliders were launched by the old bungee slingshot method where a glider was hooked to the vertex of a heavy shock-absorber cord, about 50' long on each leg. Three to six boys - depending on the power desired - would group themselves at each of the outer ends of the V and, while the glider was held back by its tail and supported at the wing-tip, they would walk out ten paces, then start running, stretching the shock-cord. At the proper time, the command "Let go!" was shouted, the glider released, and the launching was under way. One day, someone suggested using horses for the purpose. By hitching a horse to each end of the bungee, the launching crew could be reduced to a rider for each horse, one man on the wing-tip, and two to hold the tail. It seemed like a sensible plan, so two horses were drafted for the job, and the shock-cord securely tied to their harnesses. The call 'Let go!' was given, and the glider started forward. It immediately became apparent that there was not quite enough room between the horses for the glider to pass through. Additionally, the launching was not powerful enough to enable the glider to soar over them. Hearing excited screams of the onlookers, the riders looked over their shoulders to see the glider bearing down on them, and dove off the horses into the sand. The glider whizzed by, just high enough so that the wing-tips grazed each horse on the top of the head, then went on to make a somewhat shaky forced landing. The horses, however, surprised and obviously perturbed by the intruder, lit out at full speed in opposite directions, stretching the shock-cord between them. The further they went, the slower their progress, until finally they were pawing the sand but making no headway. At that point, the shock-cord, which had become chafed at the center where the launching ring was attached, broke! Did you ever see a horse turn a somersault? That pair executed two beauties and then lit out for parts unknown. That ended operations for the day - it was long after dark before the horses were found and retrieved - and for the season as far as the horses were concerned. We couldn't drag them anywhere near a glider thereafter, so thus ended the experimental application of real 'horsepower' to gliding on Cape Cod.". …