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| Book of Airmen's Obituaries
The Daily Telegraph
Bishop, ed. This fascinating book presents 100 biographies - based on obituaries that have appeared in the London Daily Telegraph - of outstanding aviators of the last century.
You'll read about R.E. Bishop, who designed the de Havilland Mosquito; Tom Sopwith, the pioneer plane maker; Sir Frank Whittle, the father of jet propulsion; legendary pilots Jeffrey Quill, Bob Stanford Tuck, Ginger Lacey, Adolf Galland, Johnnie Johnson, Babe Learoyd and Peter Townsend; Monique Agazarian, an Air Transport Auxiliary pilot who on VE day flew the length of Piccadilly at low level in a Spitfire; and many others. 512 pages, 5½"x 8½", hardcover.
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Price: $29.95
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