The Challenging Sky: The Life of Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe.
1956 · London
by Ludovici, L. J.
London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd., (1956). Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 158 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner bookplate, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jacket: If he had done nothing else A. V. Roe would have been assured of a place in history as the first man in Britain to fly in a heavier-than-air machine. That was in 2908. In the years that followed his work and achievements in the field of acronautics were such as to establish his name securely in the forefront of the great pioneers of aviation. Two symbols, widely seperated in years, yet each a miracle of its time, today bear witness to his genius. The first is the flying machine in which he first flew (exhibited in the Science Museum, London), and the second is to be seen in the elegant, up-to-the-,inute, jet-powered Princess flying boatrs designed and built by the firm which bears his name. (Inventory #: 3712bd)