ADVANCE IN THE AIR
Written by F.V. Monk, H.T. Winter
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.
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- TRANSPORT
- AVIATION
- CHILDRENS
- SCIENCE (CHILDRENS)
ADVANCE IN THE AIR
Written by F.V. Monk, H.T. Winter.
Stock no. 2110956
Hardback.
Very good condition.
The advances in the science and art of aerial travel of the time. Written for boys and girls. Blue cloth. B/w photos and diagrams. Top edge blue. Some page browning and foxing. Only titles of original wrapper are left and pasted onto homemade brown paper 'wrapper'.
Front cover
Contents
- I. The World's Greatest Air Race
- II. To Africa and Back in a Day
- III. The Wonder of the Pilotless Plane
- IV. Modern Aero Engines
- V. A New Type of Aero-Motor
- VI. The Steam Engine in the Air
- VII. The Conquest of the Pacific
- VIII. Case-Hardening Wooden Airscrews
- IX. A Revolutionary Airship
- X. The Future of the Flying Boat
- XI. Seadromes
- XII. New Civil Aircraft
- XIII. A Modern British Commercial Monoplane
- XIV. The World's Largest Military Flying Boat
- XV. Airports of the Future
- XVI. Landing Aircraft in Fog
- XVII. The Quest of the Upper Air
- XVIII. Catapulting Aeroplanes
- XIX. Hurricanes to Order
- XX. Defeating the Menace of Ice-Formation
- XXI. Flying at Half a Taxi Fare
- XXII. Seven Miles a Minute
- XXIII. Why the Air is so Safe
- XXIV. Riding the Winds