Winged Rocketry
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1968. Tall octavo, sky-blue cloth, spine embossed with silver lettering, [viii], 184 pp., frontispiece. Illustrated throughout with numerous black-and-white photographs, diagrams, graphs and illustrations. Spine ends and corners a little bumped, light wear on edges of dust-jacket; otherwise a fine copy with a very good dust-jacket. First edition, scarce.
Aeronautics and astronautics expert Major James C. Sparks of the US Air Force (retired) retraces the history of the rocket plane from its origins in ancient China to the secret German aircraft of World War Two to the barrier-breaking rocket planes of the United States. Item #4909
Price (AUD): $60.00