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(Johannesburg: AirReport, 1996). Folio; laminated pictorial boards; pp. 201; numerous colour photographs. Very good condition. This edition includes: Comair's golden jubilee; farewell to the SAAF's Harvards; Herman Potgieter joins Pilatus for fun over the Swiss Alps; Paris Air Show; 87 Helicopter Flying School in the Drakensberg mountains; South African aerobats re-trace the original air route to Kenya; and many other articles. .

(Johannesburg: AirReport, 1995). Folio; laminated pictorial boards; pp. 169; numerous colour photographs. Very good condition. This edition includes: A special report on the 75th anniversary of the South African Airforce; "A Touch of Africa" photographic portfolio by Herman Potgieter; the crash of the SAAF Museum's prized Shackleton; Farnborough 94, and many other articles. .

(Leicester, Aircraft [Technical] Publications Ltd on behalf of the Harborough Publishing Co, no date). Folio; original blue boards; no dustwrapper; pp. 104 including contemporary advertisements; numerous black-and-white photographs and drawings. Boards sunned on spine and a little bumped; a tape remnant on front pastedown; endpapers somewhat foxed and a little scattered browning elsewhere; a few tiny ink marks. Good condition. .

(Cape Town, Howard Timmins, 1982) 0869782223. 8vo; original blue boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xiv + 198; monochrome photographic plates. A little shelf-wear to bottom edges of boards; dustwrapper very slightly creased and rubbed; old price penned on half-title. Very good condition. "This book is about aeroplanes and people. Carel Birkby has enjoyed the freedom of the cockpits of the historic aircraft in the National Museum of Military History and the South African Air Force Museum. He has used this privilege as a golden thread to link many strange stories of flying concerning South Africa at war and in peace." .

(Rotterdam, Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 1925). Small 4to, original cloth gilt, a little worn on edges with lettering on spine faded, pp. 404, with 45 plates. Light browning. Dutch translation. .

(Johannesburg: Covos Day, 2001) 1919874127. 230 x 146 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 308, incl. index; photographs in text; maps. Very good condition. "How did such tragedies as the Helderberg and the Pretoria happen? What happened to the jets that crashed into Table Mountain in 1971 and what really caused the crash of flight ZS-JIR? This is a fascinating recreation of these and other events and disasters, from actual transcripts and recorded evidence. These are stories as much about the people as their machines - and the perversities of the weather, human and mechanical error, and plain old bad luck." .

(Osceola: Speciality Press, 1983). 8vo; original mustard rexine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 144; table; photographs throughout. Dustwrapper slightly creased; ownership inscription on front pastedown obliterated with black felt pen; a little light foxing to endpapers and prelims. Good to very good condition. 'Harvard, Texan, J-Bird, T-6, whatever name you gave the aircraft, it was the right plane, in the right place, at the right time. One of the most important aircraft to emerge from the 1930's, it proved to be an excellent training machine for fledgling pilots throughout the world. … It was safe, reliable, challenging and a perfect machine for transition from elementary trainers to the front-line P-40's, P-51's & similar "hot ships" of the period. For almost twenty years it taught American military pilots to fly & it still serves today with the air forces of several nations. PILOT MAKER by Jeff Ethell & Walt Ohlrich documents for the first… Read More

(Port Elizabeth: The Ron Belling Art Gallery, 2000) 0620258012. Number 99 of a hardcover limited edition of 100 copies. 4to; original black cloth, lettered in gilt to upper cover; pictorial onlay to upper cover; pp. 48; illustrated in full colour with reproductions of the paintings, including thumbnail, captioned illustrations of each of the exhibition pictures. Very occasional minor fox spot. Near-fine condition. 'This collection of paintings covers the history of aviation in South Africa from 1917 to about 1976, and at the same time reflects some of the many changes that have taken place within Port Elizabeth and the Eastern Cape, a region important in the history of aviation in the sub-continent. The 154 oil paintings and a number of drawings were published by Struikhof Publishers in 1989 in "A Portrait of Military Aviation in South Africa" by Ron Belling, who was both author and artist. ... The paintings were the result of many years of research, extensive photographic recording,… Read More

(Port Elizabeth: The Ron Belling Art Gallery, 2000) 0620258012. 262 x 210 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 48; illustrated in full colour with reproductions of the paintings, including thumbnail, captioned illustrations of each of the exhibition pictures. Near-fine condition. 'This collection of paintings covers the history of aviation in South Africa from 1917 to about 1976, and at the same time reflects some of the many changes that have taken place within Port Elizabeth and the Eastern Cape, a region important in the history of aviation in the sub-continent. The 154 oil paintings and a number of drawings were published by Struikhof Publishers in 1989 in "A Portrait of Military Aviation in South Africa" by Ron Belling, who was both author and artist. ... The paintings were the result of many years of research, extensive photographic recording, field sketching and flying with the South African Air Force by the artist.' .

(Cape Town, Tafelberg, 1971). Pictorial dustwrapper, lightly worn, pp. 125 + (1), plates. Text edges very slightly foxed. 'In the years immediately following the Great War, Major-General W.G. Salmond, officer commanding the R.A.F. in the Middle East theatre during the war, set out to make his dream of Cairo as a great centre for Empire air routes come true. This was a time when commercial passenger lines were still only an idea. In 1918 he flew himself from England to India. Less than a year later Ross and Keith Smith flew to Australia. Only one route remained to be pioneered - the flight from the top to the bottom of the Dark Continent.' .

(Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1953). 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in black on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. 274; plates. Light wear to extremities; spine sunned; a little foxing to endpapers, edges and outermost leaves. Good condition. Autobiography of pioneer aviator Frank Solomon. .