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Description
FLYING THE THERMAL SKIES: A History of Aviation in Rotorua
by Don Stafford (SIGNED)
DESCRIPTION
Format: medium hardcover with dust jacket
Published: Thermalart Productions 1983, 1st edition
Size (mm): 180 w x 255 h x 30 w
Pages: 295
SKU: A5M/2405/0365/K517
ABOUT
A book for those interested in aviation and its accurate history in Rotorua from 1918 to 1982 detailing every facet of aviation and its development.
It covers the first flights by Rotorua people in 1911; the first Rotorua pilots, the earliest aircraft arrivals, aero clubs, barnstorming, pageants, parachuting, ballooning, gliding, RNZAF, ATC, topdressing, home-builds, microlights and even hand gliders. It details the fields of scenic, charter and scheduled airlines as well as noting the problems and politics that go with the development of these industries.
Illustrated throughout with monochrome images, maps on end papers.
CONDITION
Immaculate with only light wear/marks on dust jacket, pages otherwise as new. Images depict all need to know detail.
REMARKS
Scarce signed
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