Blackburn Aircraft since 1909
London: Putnam, 1968. Octavo, dark-blue cloth, spine embossed with gilt lettering, xi, 556 pp., frontispiece, profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs and diagrams throughout, five appendices included. Spine ends and corners a little bumped and rubbed, fore-edge of text block foxed, fore-edges of leaves 541-556 water marked in a localised areas with no loss of text, dust-jacket worn and torn with faded spine, old smell; otherwise a very good copy. First edition. A comprehensive and fully illustrated history of Blackburn aircraft from the first plane Robert Blackburn built in 1908 to the Firebrand, the Beverley freighter and the Buccaneer low-level strike fighter, a naval masterpiece first used by the Royal Navy and Royal Airforce in 1962. Also included is a complete list of Blackburn designations, listing of the Brough output since 1920 and fleet lists of all transport and trainer aircraft flown by operating subsidiaries. Item #4665
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