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CHALLENGING SKIES, THE Roseberry, C.R., Doubleday & Co., 1966, vg (inked name)/g (some pieces missing - upper top & spine), see photo, history of aviation between 1919 to 1939, over 300 historic photographs, 533 pgs. $17.50
COCKPIT PROFILE, No.1 Cohausz, Peter, Flugzeug, German text, English summary, vg (previous owner's name on cover), soft cover, see photo, Pioneer, WW I & 1920 aircraft, photos & example ,drawings, 51 pgs. $12.50
COLONEL CODY AND THE FLYING CATHERDRAL, Jenkins, Garry, Picador, 2000, new, Sam Cody, flamboyant Texan, first to build and fly biplane in Britain, photos, 276 pgs. $15.00
CONDOR LEGION, THE WEHRMACHT'S TRAINING GROUND, Westwell, Ian, Ian Allen, 2004, new (soft cover), see photo, Condor Legion participated in all the major engagements including Brunete, Teruel, Aragon and Ebro. During the war it threw up a number of important names—such as Werner Moelders, credited with fourteen kills, more than any other German pilot and Adolf Galland. It also allowed the Germans to practise the tactics that Blitzkrieg would make famous, such as close-air support. In the Asturias campaign in September 1937, Galland experimented with new bombing tactics. This became known as carpet bombing. German aircraft dropped 16,953,700 kilos of bombs during the war and air units expended 4,327,949 rounds of machine-gun ammunition—the most obvious casualty was the market town of Guernica whose obliteration has been immortalised by Picasso. A total of 19,000 Germans served in the Spanish Civil War. Of these, 298 were lost, with 173 being killed by the enemy. This included 102 aircrew, 27 fighter pilots and 21 anti-aircraft crew. A large number were killed in accidents and others died of illness. The Condor Legion lost 72 aircraft to enemy action. Another 160 were lost in flying accidents, photos & maps, 96 pgs. $19.95
CONQUEST OF THE AIR, Berget, Alphonse, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909, good (spine fade, fraying at top & bottom of spine, spine crack), see photo, 48 halftone illustrations tipped in on coated paper. Many diagrams and charts explaning the science of flight and the construction of aeroplanes and dirigibles, 295 pgs. $100.00
CONTACT! STORY OF THE EARLY BIRDS, Villard, Henry, Bonzana, 1968, vg (foxing on edge)/vg, see photo, decade of flight from Kitty Hawk to World War I, photos, 263 pgs. $10.50
CURTISS AVIATION BOOK, THE, Curtiss, Glenn, Frederick A. Stokes, 1912, vg (inked inscription on fly page, spine fade), see photo, early experiments, first flights, future of the aeroplane, description of curtis aeoplane, photos, 307 pgs. $350.00
CURTISS THE HAMMONDSPORT ERA, 1907-1915, Casey, Louis, Crown, 1981, vg (soft cover, crease on right lower edge), see photo, survey of flying machines produced by Glenn Curtiss, photos & drawings, 235 pgs. $17.50
DORNIER WAL, van der Mey, M. Michiel, LoGisma, 2007, new, softcover, see photo, important flying boat design, of much interest for its technical innovations & long distance flights, also for its production thanks to the first international joint-venture of the Italian aviation industry, photos, maps, illustrations, 222 pgs. $27.00
DIRIGIBLE, Stoff, Joshua, Atheneum, 1985, f/f, see photo, children's novel based on US Navy's dirigibles of the 1930s, illustrations, 106 pgs. $10.00
EARLY AERONAUTICS IN STAFFORDSHIRE, Godwin, John, Staffordshire Libraries, 1986, vg (soft cover), see photo, History with photos, 40 pgs. $13.50
EARLY BIRDS, THE, Whitehouse, Arch, Doubleday, 1965, vg/vg, see photo, history of early flight, photos, 288 pgs. $25.00
EARLY FLYING MACHINES 1799-1909, Gibbs-Smith, Charles, Methuen, 1976, vg/vg, see photo, all photos & drawings, 136 pgs. $18.50

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