Faster Than The Sun (SCARCE 2005 EXPANDED AND UPDATED EDITION SIGNED BY PETER TWISS)
Published by Grub Street, London, 2005
- Signed
- Softcover
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Seller: Greystone Books, Margate, United KingdomGreystone Books
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NrF. 2005 expanded and updated edition. Paperback. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY PETER TWISS, on half-title page. Inscription reads, 'To ---- -------/Peter Twiss'. 216pp. Illustrated with photographs. This new edition includes Twiss' war memoir and new photographs. Peter Twiss (1921-2011) was a World War Two RAF fighter pilot and Fairey Aviation test pilot. During the Second World War he flew Fairey Fulmars with 807 Squadron and was awarded the Distinguised Service Cross in 1942. In 1946 Twiss joined Fairey Aviation as a test pilot. In 1956 he gained the World Air Speed Record in the Fairey Delta 2 flying at a speed of 1132 mph. With Appendixes and Index. A near fine copy of a SCARCE 2005 expanded and updated edition SIGNED BY PETER TWISS.
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- Title
- Faster Than The Sun (SCARCE 2005 EXPANDED AND UPDATED EDITION SIGNED BY PETER TWISS)
- Author
- Twiss, Peter
- Publisher
- Grub Street, London
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Presentation Copy Inscribed And Signed By Twiss
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1904943365
- ISBN 13
- 9781904943365
- Edition
- 2005 Expanded And Updated Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Biography and Autobiography, History, Military
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Greystone Books
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