Item #1649 The Aim of a Lifetime The Story of Alexander Yakovlev, Designer of the YAK Fighter Plane. Alexander YAKOVLEV.

The Aim of a Lifetime The Story of Alexander Yakovlev, Designer of the YAK Fighter Plane

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1972. Large octavo, original cloth, 446 pp., numerous plates. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Dust-jacket lightly rubbed and frayed with small creases on the rear, otherwise an attractive copy in a very good dust-jacket. The second printing of A. S. Yakovlev's 'The Aim of a Lifetime' contains additional new information on the development of aviation in recent years as well as the author's own reminiscences of some outstanding scientists and engineers and other personalities whose efforts served to build up Russian military capacity. Item #1649

Price (AUD): $100.00

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