1967 The Great International Paper Airplane Book by Mander, Dippel & Gossage

Description: Get ready to soar with this amazing activity book, perfect for young adults and adults alike. This first edition vintage book, published in 1967, contains everything you need to know about making paper airplanes and indulging in your love of aeronautics. Filled with diagrams, illustrations, and photographs, this book features step-by-step instructions for creating a variety of paper airplanes. It also documents the first ever International Paper Airplane Competition. Whether you're a craft-loving child or an adult looking for a fun hobby, this book is a must-have for anyone who wants to learn the art of paper airplane making. This copy has sustained minor damages to the cover, including faint staining. The binding is in great shape and no pages are missing or damaged. In great, readable condition! The cover claims this book is: "The official fly-them-yourself book of paper airplanes -- with technical data, distance and time-aloft records, photographs and commentaries -- from the first international paper airplane competition conducted by Scientific American". The back cover contains this additional information:"With the publication of The Great International Paper Airplane Book, the millions of Board Chairmen and Schoolboys, Engineers and Housewives, Computer Programmers, Physicists, Office Boys, Government Aeronautics Experts and others who have labored unsung in the Paper Airplane vineyards are at last given status and recognition. This compendium of theory and practice brings together clearly and simply diagrammed (to cut, fold, and fly-them-yourself) winning planes and other notable entries from the 1st International Paper Airplane Competition, conducted by Scientific American. It was an event unique in aviation history. The Final Fly-offs drew (in the words of one news account) "international press coverage not seen since the visit of Pope Paul." The distinguished panel of jurors included Professors David Hazen of Princeton's Aerospace Department and Edmund Laitone of the University of California (Berkeley). Entries totaled 11,851 paper planes from 28 countries. The smallest entry measures .08 x .00003 inches. The largest was 11 feet; it flew two times its own length. The planes photographed and diagrammed herein range from the Flying Wing that won the contest for Duration Aloft/Professional (time: 10.2 seconds) to a superbly flightworthy helicopter disqualified for reasons of protocol. In addition to the planes themselves this book contains the behind-the-scenes story and official records of the Competition, with photographs, facsimile documents and letters, and some pretty profound commentaries on historical, aesthetic, technological, and folklorical aspectss of the Paper Airplane, its mystique and its implications for the future of aviation."

Price: 10 USD

Location: Springfield, Oregon

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