Cierva Autogiros Development Rotary by Brooks Peter (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Light foxing on pastedowns & endpapers. Dj shelf worn with scuffs, small abrasions & light foxing in a mylar cover.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. A crispc lean copy appearing unread and showing light shelf wear only.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; remainder dot on lower outside edge of pages; in very good condition with clean text, firm binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1988.

HARD BACK TEAL. Condition: VERY GOOD. very good cover and spine. very clean endpapers. gold gilt lettering to spine. pages are very clean. black and white photographic illustrations. DATE PUBLISHED: 1988 EDITION: 384.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. DJ has slight edgewear. The FEP is missing. There is one stamp mark and hand written number on the reverse of the title page, there are no other markings in the book. Contains black & white illustrations. There is Appendices , Notes , Glossary, Bibliography and Index at the rear of this book. Seller Ref: M19889.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Vet good book and jacket - light general wear to both.

8vo., blue clothbound hardback gilt, with unclipped dust jacket; 384pp, indexed, illustrated throughout with b/w plates and diagrams. Previous owner's stamped details to corner of front pastedown and a bookshop's small sticket to foot. Dust jacket a little edgeworn, light creasing to upper cover, spine slightly faded, otherwise VG/VG. (SHELF 6) ISBN: 1853100404 PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Condition: Poor. Dust jacket has light scratches/marks and outer edges have scuffs/nicks/tears. Book content is in very good readable condition.

Hardback, 16x23.5cm, 384pp. Very good condition, in good dustwrapper (general light wear and scuff marks; 3cm tear at front upper edge with tape repair). ISBN: 1853100404. Pictures available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 384 pages. Frontis Illustration. Illustrations (maps, drawings and photographs). Appendices (including Chronology of Autogiro Development, Type Numbers, Production List, and Production Numbers). Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling, and is in a plastic sleeve. The author, a deeply experienced pilot, served on an aircraft carrier in WWII, and later worked for British Aerospace, He was the first International Fellow of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. He has focused as a writer and lecturer on aviation history. Autogiro, also spelled autogyro, rotary-wing aircraft, superseded after World War II by the more efficient helicopter. It employed a propeller for forward motion and a freely rotating, unmotorized rotor for lift. In searching for an aircraft that could be slowed down in flight and landed vertically, experimenters built many prototypes that were difficult to control in flight. Before the helicopter was the Autogiro. This study of the revolutionary development of this early rotary-wing craft by Juan de la Cierva is well written and complete. An important addition to any library of aeronautics or the history of aviation. Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of la Cierva, OCIII (21 September 1895 in Murcia, Spain - 9 December 1936 in Croydon, United Kingdom) was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and aeronautical engineer. His most famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of the Autogiro, a single-rotor type of aircraft that came to be called autogyro in the English language. In 1923, after four years of experimentation, De la Cierva developed the articulated rotor, which resulted in the world's first successful flight of a stable rotary-wing aircraft, with his C.4 prototype. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1925 where, with the support of Scottish industrialist James G. Weir, he established the Cierva Autogiro Company.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 1st 1988. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. The story of the remarkable Spaniard, Juan de la Cierva, who pioneered the development of the first practical rotary-wing aircraft. Turquoise cloth, gilt title to spine. 384 pages, including production list, notes, glossary, bibliography and index. Spine slightly bumped. Slight mark to rear edge of spine. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed, faded to spine and foxed on verso. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!