Brown Accopress binder with metal fasteners (a touch rusty); label pastedown on front cover. Overall VG, with a musty odor throughout. Bound together are: Air Commerce Manual No. 18: Repair and Alteration of Aircraft, with 18 figures and illustrations and four tables; 12 mimeographed pages on conducting maintenance inspections; typed..... More
Los Angeles: North American Aviation, Inc./Los Angeles Division, [1966?]. Contributors include John Young (Corporate VP for Quality and Logistics), Carl Hansen (Former Chief Engineer of LA Division), and Dick Schleicher (Special Assistant to the Chief Engineer Structures). Oblong stapled wraps (11” x 8.5”), overall VG+ with a touch of rubbing..... More
Names of all the 9 men are in white below the image. Photographer name in white is "(H.H.) Haskell, Columbus, O." Not examined outside of frame. Because of the shortage of pilots during World War I, the War Department formed the Aviation Cadet Training Program (1917-1919) and commissioned six universities across..... More
37 black and white contact sheets (most 8” x 10”), each with 10-20 individual thumbnail images (approximately 600 images), most with stamp on versos that reads “U.S. Air Force Photo Air Force Eastern Test Range Photographic Laboratory,” “Unclassified,” and dated January 1965. The photos on the contact sheets detail the..... More
Each black and white photograph is roughly 8” x 10” (four trimmed), all with cropping marks and three with additional notations. Unknown airport or individuals in the photos—many are shown cleaning the airplanes or inspecting them. Airplanes look to be Piper high-wing and Cessna double twin engine. More
Each approximately 14.5” x 22” with two holes at top of each for string to be worn around neck. Eight placards total (one duplicate), one with hand-written message in marker on reverse; seven printed (all with “We Support the IAM” and marked with the Allied Printing Trades Council Union Label..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1980. 168 pp. Illustrated throughout. VG+ orange hardcover (some staining to page edges) in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket (fading and chip to spine, one small tear to rear cover, light wrinkle to top edge). First Edition. SIGNED by Berlitz on title page. A fully documented..... More