Vickers Aircraft since 1908
London: Putnam, 1969. Octavo, dark blue cloth with spine lettering, x, 566pp., frontispiece, illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and diagrams, five appendices, index Some preliminary spotting, tape marks on top-edge of inner front board, front-endpaper slightly scratched, otherwise a good copy. First edition. A history of Vickers airships from early monoplanes to the evolution of the Gunbus. This also contains a few chapters on the Vickers designs from 1914 to 1918, some Vickers design projects as well as Canadian Vickers aircraft. Sections are dedicated to the Vimy, the Vickers Fighters, the Wellington Bomber, the Viscount and Valiant as well as the Vanguard and the VC10 among others. Item #3691
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