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Winter, H.T. published by Blackie & Son Ltd. (STOCK CODE: 1818733) for sale by Stella & Rose's Books

ADVANCE IN THE AIR

by F.V. Monk; H.T. Winter

Published by Blackie & Son Ltd..

Good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper. 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.

Bookplate to front pastedown. Foxing to text block and prelims. A few grubby marks present. One gathering is bound upside-down pages 128-144. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is grubby and scuffed to rear panel.

Stock no. 1818733

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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

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