Description

Large format paperback, staple bound in glossy pictorial covers. 28 pages plus covers. Illustrated with nearly 50 rare archive black and white photographs (including cockpit and engine close-ups); detailed 1:48 and 1:72 scale drawings by Ian R. Stair and three color profiles by Ray Rimell on rear cover. Second edition. Obsolete when introduced in 1915 this biplane pusher would never win any awards for beauty. “A cow, a blunderbuss a domestic pet, a kitchen range with wings on,…” was Major Oliver Stewart’s appraisal of the machine’s aesthetic appeal. He finished the paragraph by writing there “…never will be an areoplane to express more openly and visibly its contempt for streamlining and all that goes with it.” Still, this Farman design, in other variants, remained with the RAF until the Armistice. An excellent resource for the scale-modeler and airplane enthusiast. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked copy with sharp corners and no creases, as new. Fine