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DAKOTA, THE, Pearcy, Arthur, Ian Allan, 1972, f/f, production history, service with RAF, photo section, 320 pgs.

DC-3 FIFTY YEARS OF LEGENDARY FLIGHT, Bowers, Peter, Aero, 1986, f, soft cover, transport evoltion & revolution, comercial market, dash numbers, foreign exports, foreign manufacture, production, military production, specifications & performance, production, colors & markings, serial numbers, photos, 259 pgs.

DEFEAT OF DISTANCE, Gunn, John, University of Queensland, 1988, vg, soft cover, see photo, history of Quantis 1919 to 1939, photo section, 438 pgs.

DE HAVILLAND COMET, Airliner Tech #7, see photo,

DH.106 COMET, AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY, Painter, Martin, Air Britain, 2002, new (issued w/o dj), see photo, detailed individual aircraft histories, with further chapters covering the airliner's development, the Comet operators, fates, survivors and simulators in addition to a pilot's account of a typical Dan-Air flight, over 600 illustrations (many in color), diagrams, maps, drawings & time tables, 368 pgs.

DELTA, Lewis & Newton, University of Georgia Press, 1979, vg/vg (chipped, inked name), Beginning in the 1920s as a lowly crop-dusting operation in Louisiana, Delta Air Lines has grown to become one of the five largest companies in the industry & one of the most consistently profitable, well researched, 496 pgs.

DELTA AN AIRLINE AND ITS AIRCRAFT, Davies, R.E.G., Paladwr, 1990, new, illustrated by Mike Machat, photos, drawings & color plates, 112 pgs.

DEREGULATION KNOCKOUTS, Norwood, Tom, Airways Intl., 1996, new, issued w/o dj, 82 jet airlines that died in the deregulation period, 1978 to 1990, brief histories, all color photos, 120 pgs.

DESERT WINGS, Jones, Michael, Jetblast, 1997, new, soft cover, history of Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, many photos, 114 pgs.

DESIRED TRACK, Gollin & Allardyce, AVP Books, 1995, new, soft cover, extensive investigation of KAL 007 resulted in this 2 book set, the narrative and the evidence, 329 pgs. total.

DESTINATION DESASTER, Eddy, Potter & Page, Quadrangle, 1976, f/f, investigation by the Sunday Times Insight team tells the whole story of the planning, building and selling of the DC 10 airliner which fell from the sky on March 1974 to crash in a forest outside Paris, killing 346 people the majority of them British, photos, diagrams, log of accidents, victims, 434 pgs.

DINNER IN THE CLOUDS, Howe, Glenn, Zeta, 1985, new with dust jacket, food service on the airlines, recipes, photos, 130 pgs.

DOUGLAS DC-6 AND DC-7, Gann, Harry, Specialty Press, 1999, new, soft cover, Airliner Tech Series No. 4, detail drawings, many photos, 100 pgs.

DOUGLAS DC-8, Waddington, Terry, World Transport Press, 1996, new, soft cover, Great Airliners Series, development, manufacturing, flight testing, operations, safety, registrations, genealogy, production lists, photos & drawings, 144 pgs.

DOUGLAS DC-9, Birtles, Philip, Airlife, 2002, new, soft cover, see photo, design & development, technical specs, incidents & accidents, production, chronology, many color photos, 128 pgs.

DOUGLAS PROPLINERS DC-1 DC-7, Pearch, Arthur, Airlife, 1995, new, covers the development of Douglas propliners, began with DC-1 in 1933 and the final version ended in 1956 with the DC-7C, researched & written with Douglas Aircraft Corp., many photos, 160 pgs.

DOUGLAS TWINJETS, Belcher, Thomas, Crowood, 2002, new, see photo, DC-9, MD-80, MD-90 & Boeing 717, background, design, development & use of these aircraft, from their origins in the 1960s to the present, photos & illustrations, 191 pgs.

DREAM OF EAGLES , O'Neill, Ralph, Houghton Mifflin, 1973, f/f, New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Lines, photos, 324 pgs.

EAGLE, Serling, Robert, St. Martin's Press, 1985. ff. American Airlines, 482 pgs.

EARLY AMERICAN JETLINERS, Vicenzi, Ugo, MBI, 1999, new, soft cover, Boeing 707, Douglas DC-8 and Convair CV-880 (the first generation), all photos, 112 pgs.

EASTERN AN AIRLINE AND ITS AIRCRAFT, Davies, R.E.G., Paladwr Press, 2003, new, see photo, history of the "Great Silver Fleet", includes rare glimpses of the airline's ancestors Florida and Pitcairn, and of its acquisitions, Wedell-Williams, Ludington, Colonial, Mackey & Caribair, maps, photos, color plate by Mike Machat, 104 pgs.

EMPIRES OF THE SKY, Sampson, Anthony, Random House, 1984, f/f, politics, contest & cartels of World Airlines, 254 pgs.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AIRLINE COLOUR SCHEMES, VOL. 1, Mackintosh, Ian, Airline PUblications, 1979, vg/vg, North American airlines, all color guide to the liveries includes 92 U.S. and 60 Canadian airlines, 152 pgs.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AFRICAN AIRLINES, Guttery, Ben R., McFarland, 1998, new (issued w/o dj),listed alphabetically by country, then airlines, indexed, bibliography, photos, 291 pgs.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE WORLD'S COMMERCIAL AND PRIVATE AIRCRAFT, Mondey, David, Crescent, f/f, arranged alphabetically, over 250 major type & variants, photos, color plaes, cut-aways, 254 pgs.

EN ROUTE, LABEL ART FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF AIR TRAVEL, Johnson & O'Leary, Chronical Books, 1993, fine, soft cover, see photo, color reproductions of label art, 120 pgs.

ERNEST K. GANN'S FLYING CIRCUS, Gann, Ernest, Macmillian Publishing, 1974, f/f, beginning with 1935, traces the development in America of the commercial use of airplanes through the early days of airmail, air cargo, and the first passenger airlines, illustrated with color paintings, 224 pgs.

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