Farther and Faster Aviation's Adventuring Years 1909-1939
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991. Octavo, blue cloth hard cover, dust jacket, 333 pp., illustrated throughout. Some spotting otherwise a very fine copy. This book chronicles the golden age of aviation from the perspective of it's two main goals of speed and distance. Gwynn-Jones describes developments in these areas with great detail and scope both from a technical and historical perspective using examples of pioneering flights such as Alcock, Linbergh, and Costes, and the men whose efforts had a great impact on speed such as Scheider, Pulitzer, and Bennett. Item #3866
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