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World War I 'The Ideal Royal Flying Corps Loose Leaf Note Book'…
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Melbourne
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11-Nov-2009
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World War I 'The Ideal Royal Flying Corps Loose Leaf Note Book' endorsed on front 'B.T.Piper, Altona' with copious handwritten notes and diagrams from his training courses, with chapters on the 303 Automatic Lewis Machine Gun, the Vickers Gun, Topography, Signalling, Military Law, Wireless, the BE2c, Clerget Engine, Beardmore Engine, Aerial (Maps), Navigation, General Flying, Compass, Instruments, Photography, Bombs, the Theory of Flight. 446pp. Sections of the notes are dated between 1914 & 1917. Together with a photograph of Piper endorsed on reverse 'Love Pip 1918', and Raf wings cloth badge. An exceptionally scarce survivor from the earliest days of military aviation
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