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Airmen & Their Craft
More True Tales of Skill, Determination & Intrigue
By Archie Jackson
December 1999
Cirrus Associates
ISBN: 1-902807-08-1 
155 Pages, Illustrated
$26.50 Paper Original
OUT OF PRINT
Born in Chile in 1922, the author was educated in England, joined the Royal Air Force and was commissioned in 1941. He flew flying boats to Africa and the East during the war and then later flew for both airlines in Chile and Britain. This book traces the unusual stories of airmen from the beginning of the 20th Century through today, including the British contribution to Chilean aviation since 1918, the Lancaster Bomber, Imperial Airways, record breakers, photography and its use in WW II, inventor of the pure jet engines, and much more. Illustrated.