Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
Abe Books Jetcal1. You have to know what you are looking for, but there prices are cheaper most of the time. Here is the link.
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Great book at a great price. Mind if I ask where you bought it?
Thanks, I need to get in the habit of browsing them against "Brand X".Abe Books Jetcal1. You have to know what you are looking for, but there prices are cheaper most of the time. Here is the link.
AbeBooks | Shop for Books, Art & Collectibles
Thanks, I need to get in the habit of browsing them against "Brand X".
I will browse them before I order against my wishlist.You're welcome, like I said, it is not a browseable web site, you have to know what you are looking for.
I will browse them before I order against my wishlist.
In fact there's a book on a Blackburn aircraft I've been watching for 4 years now.
Excellent! Thank you for the suggestion!!! Greatly appreciated!I would suggest you add bookfinder.com to your source list. They search all the major bookseller web sites but like Abebooks you must know the title or authors name
And they are multi lingual
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Darling is a bit hit or miss at times. However, I'm not aware of surfeit of books on the Comet. Please let us know if you think it was worth the money.This came today after a tour of the west coast, which is odd because it was purchased in New York...and I live in New York. Anyway, anything that adds to my knowledge of one of my favorite planes is alright.
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Making commercial aircraft interesting since before 2001.
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Darling is a bit hit or miss at times. However, I'm not aware of surfeit of books on the Comet. Please let us know if you think it was worth the money.
Honestly I wouldn't know. The only other book I have with as any Comet information in it is from the Time-Life Epic of Flight series, and that is mostly how there determined it was explosive decompression that brought those two down. Looks good to my untrained eyes though.
Have a look at this if you are interested in more books on the comet. BookFinder.com: Search Results (Matching Titles)
Neville Shute, who designed the Airspeed aircraft among other things, wrote No Highway in 1948 which predicted accidents caused by metal fatigue, the main factor in the comet crashes. The comet accidents were caused by metal fatigue resulting in explosive decompression. The book was good enough to make into a film called No Highway in the Sky but the film, to me, was pretty awful.
I loved that movie! It had Jimmy Stewart in it! I remember the plane was called the Reindeer and it had the most ridiculous tail with like 3 horizontal stabilizers!