![]() 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. |
![]() 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 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. |
![]() 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 |
![]() 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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