Some Pioneers of Aviation celebrated in reprint books
Cover of the Rinek Aviation Engines Catalogue 1910
Rinek Aviation Engines 1910,
A reproduction of a very rare document describing the products of this little known American engine maker.

Our reprint includes a new introduction that outlines the discovery in 1971 of a complete 1909 Voisin type aircraft, built by Rinek to test their engines. 
The cover illustration shows the B8 type, a watercooled V8, once in the possession of Robert Blackburn and now on exhibition at The Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington. York. U.K.


ISBN  0  9542541  3  9

19.8cm x 11cm.16pp plus cover.
Printed by ink jet process.
£8.50p  post paid.
Aviation accident at Filey, 6th December 1911. Bob Wiess and Hubert Oxley were killed.
The Yorkshire Post Newspaper account of  the accident at Filey on the 6th December 1911, when Hubert Oxley and Robert (Bob) Weiss were killed when begining a flight to Leeds in a  Renualt V8 powered Blackburn Monoplane.
Included are photograhs of the wreckage via the Daily Mirror and a fold out sketch map in colour.


ISBN  0  9542541  4  7

20.8cm x 10cm, 12pp plus cover and fold out map.
£8.50p  post paid.
The Aerial Tourist by Bentfield C. Hucks to promote the Mercury Monoplane
The Aerial Tourist is a facsimile of a 1912 publication, published by and in support of the Blackburn Mercury Monoplane and describes B.C.Hucks's August 1911 tour of the West country by using excerpts from Newspaper accounts.
Included is an illustrated report, published in "Vanity Fair".,of the  demonstration of air to ground - ground to air, wireless telephony by B. C. Hucks - flying at 700 feet above the ground in the Blackburn Monoplane - and H. G. Mathews on the ground at Cardiff .

SBN  0  9542541  2  0
108 mm x 146mm, 16pp plus cover
Printed by ink jet process.
£5.50p  post paid.
Bentfield C Hucks programme
This facsimile programme from Spring 1914 includes a portrait of B. C. Hucks and  his own diagrams and  description of his LOOPING THE LOOP! a short biography by J. C. Savage (B. C. Hucks's  promoter) and and an apraisal of Hucks as an unasuming character by his friend Harold Pontefract.

ISBN  0  9542541  0  4
208 mm x 145mm, 16pp plus cover
Printed by ink jet process.
£8.50p  post paid.

For an e extract  from the Hucks Programme & Souvenir
Blackburn Aeroplane Catalogue for 1911
A  facsimile reproduction of The Blackburn Aeroplane Company 1911 Catalogue.
The copy is Roberts Blackburns own description of his very first Aeroplanes.
The many photographs include:-
The Isaacson and Gnome engine instalations in the Mercury type,
Workshop interiors that include a close up of the Blackburn No1, with the Green Engine and a Bleriot X1 with the three cylinder Anzani, either under construction or in for repairs

ISBN  0  9542541  1  2
20.8cm x 14.5cm, 24pp plus cover
Printed by ink jet process.
£12.50p  post paid.
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