The Care and Maintenance of Aircraft A complete course of instruction for ground engineers and light aeroplane owners...
London: Bunhill Publications, 1937. Quarto, original papered boards with yellow cloth backstrip, 194 pp., diagrams and plans throughout. Front board creased, spine discoloured, internally in very good order. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged.
'This book is a reprint of a series of articles that were published in the first 15 issues of Aircraft Engineering magazine... It was a striking fact that though a prospective ground engineer or light aeroplane owner could apprentice him or herself to a firm, and thereby obtain the necessary practical experience in the workshops, there was no one book which gave the necessary theoretical knowledge on which this practical work should be based' (from the preface to the first edition by Lieutenant-Colonel Lockwood Marsh, editor of Aircraft Engineering magazine). Item #4372
Price (AUD): $100.00