Safety in Flight
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1942. Quarto, grey cloth, spine and front cover printed with dark navy-blue lettering, front cover printed with plane motif, ix, 372 pp., frontispiece. Illustrated throughout with numerous black-and-white photographs, drawings, diagrams, tables, graphs and cartoons. Spine ends slightly bumped, light foxing on endpapers, browning on leaves throughout as common to publications of the period, old smell, wear and tear on edges of dust-jacket with some spotting on covers and fading of spine; otherwise a near-fine copy in a very good dust-jacket. 1942 reprint of 1941 first edition.
At the time this volume was written, Assen Jordanoff was considered the foremost expert on aviation due to his association with Curtiss-Wright Corporation and other leading American Aircraft companies, the many articles he wrote on flying and his two previous books Your Wings and Through the Overcast. Here he outlines all the technical and practical know-how a pilot needs for safe flying. Item #4922
The front free endpaper is inscribed in black ink with: "N. Gaston"
Price (AUD): $50.00