BARNSTORMING. THE GREAT YEARS OF STUNT FLYING

by Caidin, Martin

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Book Description

Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1965, second printing.. 304 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs. "The rules were simple enough - even if they were loosely applied and even more loosely interpreted. For landing fields anywhere and any place close enough to roads and a center . of population would do. If you could put the wheezing, staggering planes down on the field, and people could come out to watch you careen through the air, and if you were smart enough to collect your money before a show - why, you were in the barns. torming business....But the whims of weather and the unpredictable fancies of your audience, together with the quirks of those dangerous flying machines, made for a life scarcely calculated for rest, comfort, or longevity. This lively and often d. o w nright frightening story moves from the days of the dashing young World War I aces, flying leftover 1918 Jenny biplanes, to the skilled skydivers of today. Stories of men like Charles Lindbergh and Frank Hawks, who began their aviation careers . as b arnstormers, are here, as are accounts of less famous fliers such as Tommy Walker, who daily flirted with death, and Red Grant, this country's first 'batman'. In this well-documented, energetic and masculine book, Martin Caidin presents a stu. nni ng tribute to the incomparable Barnstormers - of yesterday....today....and tomorrow." Very light browning to top and fore-edge of textblock - tiny foxing marks and line indentation also on top, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, very ligh. t ed ge wear. Dust jacket has light edge wrinkling, tiny tears at top of spine, and two small closed tears elsewhere - all archivally taped, light fading to spine lettering, minor rubbing, minor edge browning, small water mark at bottom of spine, s. mall are a of roughness on rear panel. Very Good-/Good+.

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