A Passion For Flight - Vol 2 |
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Errol Martyn ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Location: New Zealand Status: Offline Points: 157 |
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Published this
month is: A PASSION
FOR FLIGHT - New Zealand Aviation before the Great War. VOLUME TWO:
Aero Clubs, Aeroplanes, Aviators and Aeronauts 1910-1914, by Errol Martyn. Chapters: 1) Aeroplane
Ventures in the South (John
Gill, Bert Pither, Francis Potter & James Paskell aeroplanes) 2) Wellington
Wings (Arthur
Schaef’s ‘Vogel’ aeroplanes & Percy Fisher’s monoplane) 3) An
Auckland Aero Club, Famous Visitors and the Henning and Dexter Aeroplanes 4) The
Walsh Brothers and a Howard Wright Biplane called Manurewa 5) Southern
Aero Clubs and their Aerial Activities (Includes
Angus-Bolt gliders, Jonassen-O’Connell monoplane & Oscar Wood-Bernard
Hughes gliders and monoplane) 6) Vincent
Beebe and his Extraordinary Aeronauts (Parachutist
making single, double and even triple ‘chute jumps – Albert Eastwood,
Christopher Sebphe & Zahn Rinaldo) 7) Ideas and Projects that Never Took Flight (Includes
Poverty Bay’s mystery aeroplanes, James Warburton’s ornithopter, ‘Aero Fever’
at Akaroa, The New Zealand Airship Development Company, Takaka’s
‘horse-powered’ glider, Pahiatua’s Baby Biplane, Reg Duke’s Triplane & Matthew
Marmaduke’s biplane glider) 8) Airborne
Abroad (Includes
the Hawkins-Ogilvie Triplane, Damer Allen’s fatal flight & early passenger
flights abroad including by tennis superstar Anthony Wilding’s frightening
flights in France) 9) Aerial
Tours From Abroad that Never Eventuated 10) The Saga of New Zealand’s First
Blériot (Imported
from the USA by James D. Walsh – the longest surviving of the three Blériots
that came to New Zealand) 11)
The First Practical Powered
Flights (American
‘Wizard’ Stone and his Blériot, Billy Miller and Esk Sandford redesign and fly
the Manurewa) 12) Aeroplaning
in the Manawatu (Hector
and Seaforth McKenzie and their American Hamilton Biplane & Len Mangham’s
monoplane) 13) ‘Scotland
in the Air!’ (Will
Scotland and his Caudron Biplane and his pioneering flights of 1914) Appendices include a summary of powered flight
attempts in New Zealand up to 1914 Book specs:
320 pages, 185 x 245mm. 280+ illustrations. Soft cover. For flyer
and order form with pricing info, etc, PM me with your email address. Errol |
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Errol,
I really liked the first Vol. 1 , looking for Vol. 2 Those early New Zealand Balloonists were crazy!!!! Derek |
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