Short brothers (8 resultados)

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. 50 pages; three illustrations from photographs. Contains words and music to 20 songs written and sung by Jimmie and Leon Short, including: Rosalie, My Texas Rose; Stop Teasing Me; My Little Brown-eyed Texas Girl; When It's Apple Blossom Time; and 16 more. In the original pictorial covers, 12" x 9".…

Reprint. Slim softcover, quite good with light wear. Illustrated after photos. Reprinted from "The Aeroplane".

1st Edition. Very Good condition; light fading to the cover (violet background, orange rim around the photos of the brothers); unmarked, solid and striaght. Paperwraps folio 9x12", 50 pp. 20 popular New Favorites: 20 songs with music, words, chords, and piano/vocal/guitar arrangements, inc.: Are Your Eyes Really Blue? I Hate to Say Goodbye; I Wonder; In My Heart I?ll Always Care; Just What Have I Done? Only A Dream; Time After Time; When It?s Apple Blossom Time; etc. .…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Promotional brochure in colour illustrated wraps, 26x21cm, (24)pp complete with booklet in pocket at the back, "Weights / Performance / Operating Costs" in matching wraps, (17)pp. Illustrated with b/w photos, cross-sections, maps, drawings and charts throughout. Undated c1948-50. Very good. The Sealand was an amphibious plane. The brochure makes reference to its use by British West Indian Airways on their inter-island services. It was also promoted for business freight, pleasure, surveying, air-sea rescue and ambulance, forest and anti-fire patrol, continental feeder-line services, air charter, police, coastguard and customs, ice patrol and marine aircraft conversion training. Its first flight was in 1948, and it was introduced in 1950. Among its major users were the Indian Navy, Royal Dutch Shell, Christian & Missionary Alliance, and the Yugoslav Air Force. …

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Original staple bound printed wraps 22 x 28cm. Printed by Harrison & Sons, London. 24 + (2)pp including several b/w photos and technical drawings. Covers very good, foxed and dusted. Interiors very good. Staples rusting, and sections starting to come loose. The Calcutta was built for the Mediterranean leg of Imperial Airways' England to India route, from Genoa to Alexandria. It was adapted from the military Singapore Mk.1, with 7 built, and it first flew in 1928. This contains Short Brothers' own description (dated July 1929) with extracts from the Royal Air Force official test report, and the detailed description originally published in "Engineering" (17 Aug 1928). The photos show its launch, afloat, cabin, buffet and steward's compartment, hull interiors, construction and testing, and various details. The drawings show the overall design, as well as the various components.…

No Binding. Condición: Good. Original b/w photo 18x13cm. Good with some creasing. Undated c1934-35. This is without any captions or stamps to the verso, and may have been prepared by Imperial or Short. It shows a crowd viewing the craft outside a hangar possibly at Croydon, with another partially identifiable craft parked up behind ("Imperial Airways London G-AAC-", apparently one of its surviving Armstrong Whitworth Argosys, which it retired in 1935). "Scylla" (G-ACJJ) was one of just two 4-engine 39-seat luxury biplanes Imperial Airways commissioned in 1933, to supplement its fleet of HP42s after Handley Page asked too much for two additional craft. It was used on European routes, with its first flight on 26 March 1934. Both were retired in 1940 when Scylla was destroyed in a gale, and "Syrinx" (G-ACJK) scrapped.…

Condición: no binding. London, HMSO 1956 First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound About 27cm by 18cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.