Bellanca's Golden Age: 42 Years Of Airplane Manufacturing Operations (new) on 2040-parts.com

Bellanca's Golden Age

by Alan Abel & Drina Welch Abel

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This book will be inscribed with YOUR first and last names and signed by the author, Alan Abel.

Bellanca's Golden Age book traces G.M. Bellanca coming from Sicily to America as a teenager in 1911 through his 42 years of continuous airplane manufacturing operations. Details the beginnings of the air transportation system over great distances. Details the first 10 flights over the Atlantic and the first flight over the Pacific.

Tells never-before-told stories of Charles Lindbergh, Clarence Chamberlin and many other Golden Age personalities. Details the story of the greatest airplane of the 1920s — Bellanca's Columbia, the plane Charles Lindbergh wanted for his trans-Pacific flight but didn't get. As a result, Lindbergh was furious and immediately set out to build the Spirit of St. Louis.

In the 1930s the government tested 209 different airplanes and found that Bellanca's was the best regarding "efficiency."

Book details Bellanca airplanes: CD, CE, CF, Wright-Bellanca 1, WB-2, Columbia, Bellanca J, TES Tandem, Pacemaker, Special J-300, Model K, Airbus/Aircruiser, C-27A, Miss Veedol, The White Falcon, Senior Skyrocket, The Flash, XSE-1, XSE-2, Bellanca Racer, Cruisair Junior, YO-50 (liaison), AT-21-BL Trainer, Cruisair Senior, and the Cruisemaster.

This is the ONLY book that captures the complete Bellanca story. As a bonus, this book also brings reader up-to-date with recent Bellanca activities.

Book includes: 148 pages, softbound, 8.5” x 11”, 175+ photos, 3-view outlines.

Bellanca's Golden Age is included in The Golden Age of Aviation Series.

BOOK REVIEWS for The Golden Age of Aviation Series: 

Smithsonian's Air & Space: "Archival photos and technical drawings abound." 
American Aviation Historical Society: "...details the people, facilities and manufacturing operations."
EAA's Sport Aviation: "...progressively tells the events and details of these aircraft." 
Skyways: "a jewel…. extraordinary…. marvelous…. Series is a hit of the first order.”
SR Batteries: “....just wonderful reading.”
General Aviation News: "...books ARE A MUST FOR AVIATION BUFFS." 
Historic Aviation: “….with rich narrative and colorful histories.” 

About the Authors:
Alan Abel and his mother, Drina Welch Abel, published aviation books for 17 years through their publishing company, Aviation Heritage. In 2000 the Abels retired from aviation book publishing.

Since then they have been authoring and/or co-authoring a series of books, The Golden Age of Aviation Series, for another aviation book publisher. In all, the Abels have been involved in various capacities of the aviation book business (publishing, research, authoring, marketing and distribution) for 30 years.

The Abels were born into a pioneering aviation family, the Welch Family (Drina's maiden name), manufacturer of the Welch Airplane in the 1920s, 1930s and early 1940s.

Because of the family's deep roots in early aviation leading into WWII, the Abels have been determined to keep the history of aviation alive, with emphasis on histories of civil aircraft manufacturing in the Pioneer Era and in the Golden Age (1900-1950).

In furtherance of their goal of compiling histories of aircraft of the Golden Age, the Abels purchased all of the copyrights of the late Paul Matt upon his death in 1987. Accordingly, The Golden Age of Aviation Series was written with the inclusion of some of the writings and 3-view Airplane Scale Drawings of Paul Matt. Matt was an aviation author, aviation illustrator, aviation photographer, airplane scale modeler, aviation magazine contributor and aviation book publisher during the 1960s through the 1980s.

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