Item #4590 Sky Fever The autobiography of Sir Geoffrey de Havilland C.B.E. Sir Geoffrey DE HAVILLAND.
Sky Fever The autobiography of Sir Geoffrey de Havilland C.B.E.

Sky Fever The autobiography of Sir Geoffrey de Havilland C.B.E.

London: Wrens Park, 1999. Octavo, hardcover, dust jacket, 240 pp., four double-sided plates in black and white. Small located stain on a few leaves at the end with no loss of text, near-fine copy in dust-jacket. Reprint. Geoffrey de Havilland is one of the world's true pioneers of powered flight, a man as important in British aviation as the Wright brothers were in America. Without experience, plans or instructions, he built his own flying machine and the engine to power it, and by painstaking trial and error taught himself to fly. Item #4590

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