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SAILPLANES 1920 - 1945

by Martin Simons

Published by Equip. 2nd. 2006

Slightly better than very good condition. Describing and illustrating more than 120 types of sailplane, designed, built and flown in many countries during the quarter century following the first organised gliding competition on the Wasserkuppe in 1920. Large format. B/w pictorial boards. B/w photos and colour diagrams throughout.

2nd revised edition. Fading to spine and spine edges.

ISBN: 3980677346
Stock no. 1817933

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Contents

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The Discovery of Soaring
  • Chapter 2: The Darmstadt School of Design
  • Chapter 3: Learning to Fly
  • Chapter 4: The Rhon Ghost
  • Chapter 5: Lippisch, Georgii and Thermal Soaring
  • Chapter 6: Dittmar and the Condors
  • Chapter 7: The Very Large and the very Small
  • Chapter 8: Schneider and Grunau
  • Chapter 9: Schempp Hirth
  • Chapter 10: Hans Jacobs and the factory sailplanes
  • Chapter 11: Steel Tubes and fabric
  • Chapter 12: More experiments
  • Chapter 13: Australia
  • Chapter 14: Austria
  • Chapter 15: Britain
  • Chapter 16: Czechoslovakia
  • Chapter 17: France
  • Chapter 18: Hungary
  • Chapter 19: Italy
  • Chapter 20: Japan
  • Chapter 21: Poland
  • Chapter 22: Switzerland
  • Chapter 23: USA
  • Chapter 24: USSR
  • Appendices

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