PIONEER AIRPLANE TITLES

USAAC CAMOUFLAGE & MARKINGS 1926-1941, Aviatik Camouflage File No. 1 (new series), 2004, soft cover, see photo, English text, many photos & color plates see photo, 100 pgs.

U.S. ARMY AVIATION SERIAL NUMBERS AND ORDERS 1908-1923, RECONSTRUCTED, Casari, Robert, Military Aircraft Publication, 1985, new, soft cover, the title says it all, 108 pgs.

U.S. NAVY AIRCRAFT 1921-1941, Larkins, William, Aviation History, 1961, vg/vg (rubbed), the original publication, all photos, with descriptive captions, photos, 391 pgs.

U.S. NAVY IN PENSACOLA, THE, Pearce, George, Univ. of W.Florida, 1980, new, see photo, 1825-1930, the air station was established in 1914, photos, 207 pgs.

UNLOCKING THE SKY, Shulman, Seth, Harper Collins, 2002, new, see photo, Glenn Curtiss and his race to invent the airplane, Wright brothers took to the courts to keep Curtiss & his airplanes out of the sky, photos, 258 pgs.

UNTOLD STORY OF THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS, Cassagneres, Ev, Flying Books International, 2002, new, soft cover, see photo, author has spent his adult life researching every aspect of the airplane & its flight, interviews with people that did construction, testing, & flying the airplane (including Lindbergh), complete documentation of this airplane, photos & drawings, 167 pgs.

VICKERS VIMY, Turner, P. St. John, PSL, 1969, vg/vg, see photo, the world's a replica of this airplane wowed them at Oshkosh (2001), photos, 128 pgs.

VICKERS VIMY, Bruce, J.M., Albatros, 1994, new, soft cover, Windsock Special, see photo, the world's specifications, deployment, scale drawings, variants, colours, productin & serial numbers, weights & performances, many photos, 41 pgs.

VIRGINIA AIRPORTS, Rollo & Crabill, Virginia Aeronautical Historical Society, 2003, new, soft cover, see photo, historical survey of airports & aviation from the earliest days, many photos, maps & illustrations, 243 pgs.

VISIONS OF A FLYING MACHINE, Jakab, Peter, Smithsonian, 1990, new, soft cover, see photo, the world's explores the invention methodolgy employed by the Wright Brothers that led to their flight at Kitty Hawk, photos, 263 pgs.

WACO - Symbol of Courage & Excellence - Volume 1, Fred O. Kobernuss, Aviation Heritage, 1999, new, soft cover, see photo, covers 1920-1930, many photos, line drawings, 180 pgs.

"WE", Lindbergh, Charles A., G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1927, f (embossed cover), story of his life and his Transatlantic flight together with his views on the future of aviation, photos, 318 pgs.

WHITE EAGLES, Belcarz & Peczkowski, Hikoki, 2001, new, see photo, aircraft, men & operations of the Polish Air Force 1918 - 1939, English text, maps, photographs & color plates, 304 pgs.

WICHITA 4, THE, Bissonette, Bruce, Aviation Heritage, 1999, new, soft cover, see photo, Cessna, Moellendick, Beech and Stearman, many photos, 200 pgs.

WILBUR WRIGHT'S FLIGHTS IN FRANCE, Kandebo, & Dewey (editors), McGraw-Hill, new (oversized), 2003, see photo, Leon Bollee's phtographic record 1908-1909 from the Wright State University Library, Wilbur Wright’s Flights in France is a virtual page-by-page re-creation of a personal photo album presented to Orville Wright, recording his older brother’s stunning achievements in flight in France in 1908 and early 1909, the album was created by the widow of Leon Bollee, an automobile manufacturer, flight enthusiast and Wilbur’s best friend in France,75 pgs.

WIND AND SAND, Wescott & Degen, Eastern National, 1999, vg, soft cover, see photo, story of the Wright brothers & Kitty Hawk, photos, 189 pgs.

WIND IN THE WIRES, Vines, Mike, MBI, 1999, new, see photo, Golden Era of Flight, 1909-1939, all color photos, 128 pgs.

WINGED WARFARE, Arnold, H.H. Maj. General & Eaker, Ira Col., Harper & Bros., 1941, vg/ vg (spine fade), weapons, air bases, organization, tactics, strategy, defence, aircraft production, research & development, photos, 265 pgs.

WINGS ACROSS THE PACIFIC, Gwynn-Jones, Terry, Orion, 1991, new, see photo, all prior to WW 2 except last chapter which tells the flight of the Tachikawa A-26, photos, 256 pgs.

WINGS OVER BROOKLANDS, Johnson, Howard, Whittet Books, 1981, f/f (as new), see photo, flying history of Brooklans Airfield, experiences of many pioneer aviators, birth of the war plane, races to conquer the Atlantic, 20's, Luftwaffe attack on Brooklands, many photos, 157 pgs.

WINGS OVER KABUL, Baker & Ivelaw-Chapman, Kimber, 1975, f/f, see photo, evacuation by the RAF of nearly 600 people from the capital of Afghanistan in 1929 to British India, photos, 191 pgs.

WINGS OVER SPAIN, Emiliani & Ghergo, GAE, 1997, new, see photo, English text, all photos, aircraft in Spanish Civil War, 199 pgs.

WINGS OVER THE MEXICAN BORDER, Ragsdale, Kenneth, University of Texas Press, 1984, as new, see photo, rise of U.S. combat aviation at an unlikely proving ground, a remote airfield in the rugged southwestern Texas borderlands, also provides a reflective look at U.S. Mexico relations of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, particularly the aftermath of the Escobar Rebellion of 1929, photos, 266 pgs.

WONDERS OF WORLD AVIATION , Winchester, Clarence, editor, Amalgamated Press, ca 1938, 2 volume set covering all the facets of aviation history, from Otto Lillienthal to the Spitfire, many photos, 1088 pgs.

WORLD'S GREAT PIONEER FLIGHTS, Taper, Oliver, Bodley Head, 1975, f/f, see photo, describes numerous flights in both lighter and heavier-than-air craft, photos, 125 pgs.

WRIGHT BROTHERS, THE, Gibbs-Smith, C.H., Science Museum (UK), 2002, new, soft cover, see photo, first published in 1963 with several revisions, covers their work 1899-1911, photos, 48 pgs.

WRIGHT BROTHERS FROM BICYCLE TO BIPLANE, Fisk & Todd, self-published, 2000, new, soft cover, see photo, covers flight of Wright brothers to celebrate 100th anniversary of flight 1903-2003, many photos, 136 pgs.