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Helicopter Evolution: A Collection of Vintage Rotorcraft Photographs
Editore:
Vintage Flyer Media LLC, 2011
ISBN 10: 0982772823
ISBN 13: 9780982772829
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Paperback
Prima edizione
Da: BOOK2BUY, Lynbrook, NY, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Paperback - clean, no marks, clean inside, - from a private collection - Helicopter Evolution shares vintage images, 1907 thru 1974, of the creative visionaries who experimented with new rotorcraft designs continually pushing the envelope. The book shows the inventions, improvements and advancements of helicopters that were captured on film and have been lost or forgotten for decades. Taken from a private archive of vintage commercial rotorcraft photographs that are seldom seen, forgotten companies like; American Helicopter, Bendix, Brantley, Cessna, Curtis-Wright, and Curtiss-Wright, de Bothezat, Domain, Firestone, Helicopter Engineering, Mc Culloch, Marquardt and Roteron reappear. Many other better known companies are included, including companies like: Boeing, Sikorsky, Hiller, Piasecki, Kaman and Kellett. Author John Cilio leads readers through the chronological development of the helicopter, including the autogiro with vintage photographs. Each photograph is accompanied by informative narrative about the people and the helicopter often provided from the original press release. He closes the book paying tribute to Vietnam s Huey pilots with a poem, The Huey Pilot, by , I. S. "Bob" Parrish and photos of the Huey and Cobra. Codice articolo 38873.240211os
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