Adventures of the Blackgang

seattlemysterybooks:

heartwoodauctions

November 14, 1931 issue

Seattle Mystery Bookshop

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1928, endpapers, “Story of an Airplane”

Children’s Textbook Covers in 1920s Japan on 50 Watts

Marin & navire de guerre; Année: 1934

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mudwerks:

Santa Claus at Canberra Airport, ca. 1929 (by National Library of Australia Commons)

Collingridge A. (Alexander), d. 1942. - Part of: Collection of photographs of Canberra.

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slang-king:

Forest patrol planes flying in close formation, Olympic National Forest, Washington, 1921

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xplanes:

“Blanche Noyes, Women’s Air Derby pilot” (aircraft, via)

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The Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing is an American biplane with an atypical negative stagger (the lower wing is further forward than the upper wing), that first flew in 1932.

GB-1:
United States Navy transport version of the D17, ten bought in 1939 and ten impressed into USN service.

xplanes:

“Beech UC-43 In flight (US Navy GB-1) (U.S. Air Force photo)” (via)

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xplanes:

“Louis Paulhan in a race” (via)

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xplanes:

“1910 - 2nd Paris Air Show - New Biplane”
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The Sopwith Pup was a British single seater biplane fighter aircraft built by the Sopwith Aviation Company. It entered service with the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service in the autumn of 1916.

With pleasant flying characteristics and good maneuverability, the aircraft proved very successful. The Pup was eventually outclassed by newer German fighters, but it was not completely replaced on the Western Front until the end of 1917. Remaining Pups were relegated to Home Defence and training units.

The Pup’s docile flying characteristics also made it ideal for use in aircraft carrier deck landing and takeoff experiments.

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myoctoberrevolution:

Sopwith Pup

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Albatross!

mudwerks:

A crashed Albatros B.I. two-seat biplane, most likely a training aircraft (by drakegoodman)

Undated letter on reverse addressed to “An den Gefreiter Herrn Karl Keck 3. Ersatz-Kompagnie Pionier-Regiment 19, Straßburg.” Letter: “Die besten Grüße von hier sendet Dir Dein Freund, Albert”.

A crashed Albatros B.I. two-seat biplane, most likely a training aircraft. The B.I was of conventional configuration which seated the observer and pilot in separate cockpits in tandem.

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Washington, D.C., circa 1911. “Senorita Lenore Riviero with Antony Jannus in Rex Smith aeroplane.”

Tony Jannus, the pioneering but short-lived Washington aviator, a few years before his final flight deposited him somewhere at the bottom of the Black Sea… View full size.

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