Aviation - Civil
ROWE, Frank Joseph & MINER, Craig
Borne on the South Wind - A Century of Kansas Aviation
ROWE, Percy
The Great Atlantic Air Race
The race to claim the 1913 £10,000 Lord Northcliff prize for the first Atlantic air crossing, achieved by Alcock and Brown in 1919. Supported with photographs the story covers Santos-Dumont, the Wright Brothers, Sopwith, Bleriot, Hawker and Read.
ROXBEE, Sir Harold (ed.)
Gas Turbine Principles and Practice
Study of gas turbines and their application to aviation, marine, transport and industry. Full of techincal data, photographs and diagrams, including fine fold-out drawings. A heavy volume.
Royal Aeronautical Society
Garden Party Programme - Astwick Manor, Hatfield Aerodrome
Sunday, June 14th, 1953
Display of aircraft and flying to celebrate fifty years of the RAS from 1903. With contemporary advertising, the contents includes around 40 pages of reproduced articles from the fifty years, description of the 52 display aircraft and a flying programme.
Royal Aeronautical Society
Man Powered Flight
RAS booklet promoting its man-powered flight group and the Kremer Competition. The competition was originally announced in 1959 and first won in 1977 with flight of the Gossamer Condor.
Royal Aeronautical Society
Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Centenary Journal - January 1966
Volume 70 - Number 661
Special centenary edition. Numerous illustrated articles, including those relating to the Society's history.
