Isbn: 9780961483005 - Flying Key Brothers and Their Flight to Remember (6 results)

8vo Softcover. Condition: Acceptable. Signed. 128pp. Signed on title page by Owen with an additional inscription, signature and date on page opposite of publication. Binding is tight with an unbroken spine. Wraps and pages are heavily wrinkled from water damage and show foxing with bumped corners. All text still legible and readable. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. In illustrated wraps. Golden Anniversary Edition. Vintage Softcover, Stated Golden Anniversary Edition, 1985, Stephen Owen Publishing, 128 pages, two appendices and an extensive 4 page Bibliography. Near Fine, in illustrated wraps. Just a whisper of shelf/edge wear to covers. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and unmarked. From the preface: On July 1, 1935, exactly thirty-two years, six months, and fifteen days after the Wrights' maiden voyage, two pilots in Meridian, Mississippi, proved to the world just how far an airplane could fly and how much it and its pilots could endure. When their tiny, single-engine Curtiss Robin airplane, named the 'Ole Miss' for the state of Mississippi, landed before a wildly enthusiastic crowd of between 30,000 and 40,000 well-wishers, Al and Fred Key had stayed above the earth longer than any other human beings. For 653 hours and 34 minutes - a total of twenty-seven nonstop days and nights - the brothers had circled the city of Meridian. Had their flight been in a straight line, they would have circumnavigated the globe more than twice. Not until 1973 would man stay above the earth longer. A superb copy. LOC SSM-11.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. private library liquidation as new unread.

Soft Cover. Condition: New. Soft cover has white spine with black lettering. Pages are clean and tight. Lavishly illustrated with dozens of b/w photographs. 2 appendices; bibliography. During the depth of the Great Depression, on June 4, 1935, The Flying Keys, as the brothers later became known, lifted off in a borrowed Curtiss Robin monoplane named Ole Miss from Meridian, Mississippi's airport. For the next twenty-seven days, they flew over the Meridian vicinity. Several times each day, the crew of a similar plane would lower food and supplies to the brothers on the end of a rope, as well as supply fuel via a long flexible tube, a fore runner of modern 'in flight refueling'. They landed on July 1 after traveling an estimated 52,320 miles and used more than 6,000 gallons of gasoline. Their non-stop endurance flight lasted 653 hours, 34 minutes. Their historic biplane, the Ole Miss, is displayed in the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC. ; B&W Illustrations; 6 X 9; x, 128 pages; Soft cover has slight shelf wear and bumping. …