Javelin Boys

Author : Steve Bond
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911621584

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Javelin Boys by Steve Bond Pdf

This Royal Air Force history examines a revolutionary Cold War era aircraft with firsthand accounts from veterans who flew them all over the world. The Gloster Javelin, an all-weather interceptor aircraft, was the UK’s first line of air defense in the 1950s and 1960s, both at home and in Royal Air Force Germany. With an unorthodox aerodynamic design, the Javelin had major production issues early on—including a tendency for engines to self-destruct under certain conditions. But the revolutionary aircraft still receives much affection from its former crew. Some of their most thrilling, fascinating and colorful stories are collected here in terrific detail. Starting from the first deliveries of Javelins in 1956 until the final withdrawal from RAF squadron use in 1968, Javelin Boys describes adventures all over the world—from Cyprus to Singapore during the Indonesian Confrontation and Zambia during the Rhodesian declaration of UDI. Alongside their anecdotes is a detailed history of this unusual aircraft, accompanied by photography never seen before in print.

Author : F. A. M. Webster,J. A. Heys,A. W. Close
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781528768740

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Athletic Training for Men and Boys - A Comprehensive System of Training Tables for All Events by F. A. M. Webster,J. A. Heys,A. W. Close Pdf

“Athletic Training for Men and Boys” is a vintage illustrated guide to athletics by F. A. M. Webster. It contains a complete system of athletics training to be followed by coaches or students, and will be of considerable utility to athletes new and old. Frederick Annesley Michael Webster (1886 – 1949) was a British athletics coach and author, and soldier active during World War One. He wrote profusely on the subject of athletics, with his best known book being “Athletics in Action” (1931). Contents include: Value of Training and Use of Training”, “Tables of Effort Explained”, “The Sprints”, “440 Yards”, “Short Middle Distances and Three-quarter-mile Steeplechase”, “Distance Races and Two-mile Steeplechase”, “Yards High Hurdles”, “Yards Low Hurdles”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on athletics.

Author : Edmund Routledge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Amusements
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000009701

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Every Boy's Book by Edmund Routledge Pdf

Author : John George Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Games
ISBN : UVA:X000762361

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Every Boy's Book by John George Wood Pdf

Author : Every boy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Amusements
ISBN : OXFORD:600082136

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Every boy's book: a complete encyclopædia of sports and amusements, ed. by E. Routledge by Every boy Pdf

Author : Bob Swope
Publisher : Bob Swope, Jacobob Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780982096017

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Learn'n More about Track and Field by Bob Swope Pdf

A practical guide book for kids, parents, or anyone that wants to learn more about track and field events, this text has 436 pictures, illustrations, diagrams, and charts, and covers all the basic fundamentals for the events.

Author : Fleur Hitchcock
Publisher : Hot Key Books
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781471400476

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The Trouble with Mummies by Fleur Hitchcock Pdf

Probably the first really noticeable thing was Mum coming back from the hairdresser's on Friday afternoon, wearing a small black beard. Sam comes home one day to find his family turning strange - his mum is redecorating using hieroglyphics and his dad is building a pyramid in the back garden. He hopes it's just a weird new fashion... but then the strangeness starts to spread. With the help of his friends Ursula, Henry and Lucy the Goat, Sam must save his town from rampaging Roman rugby players, hairdressers turned cavewomen, and a teacher who used to be a 'basket of kittens' but now wants to sacrifice the Year Ones to the Aztec sun god. As history invades Sam's world, will he be able to keep the Greeks away from the Egyptians and discover the cause of the Mummy madness? WARNING: contains dangerous dressing-up, mild historical violence and prolonged scary humour.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Adventure stories, English
ISBN : UCAL:C2723975

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The Boy's Own Annual by Anonim Pdf

Author : Various
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547050490

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Every Boy's Book: A Complete Encyclopædia of Sports and Amusements by Various Pdf

"Every Boy's Book" is a complete encyclopedia of amusements and sports activities for modern boys. Excerpt: "HOP, STEP AND JUMP. Make a mark on the ground at a place called the "starting point." At ten yards' distance from this make another, called the "spring." Then let the players arrange themselves at the starting point, and in succession run to the second mark called the spring. From the spring make first a hop on one leg, from this make a long step, and from this step a long jump. Those who go over the greatest space of ground are of course the victors."

Author : Payton Jordan,Marshall K. McClelland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033401659

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Track and Field for Boys by Payton Jordan,Marshall K. McClelland Pdf

Author : Glenn Scobey Warner,Lawton Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Baseball
ISBN : MINN:31951000781577S

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Pop Warner's Book for Boys by Glenn Scobey Warner,Lawton Wright Pdf

Author : Kenneth J. Freeman
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Education
ISBN : EAN:8596547090489

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Schools of Hellas by Kenneth J. Freeman Pdf

This dissertation was posthumously published after the author's death at the age of 24. It covers the education system in use in Greece—specifically in Athens, during Ancient Greek times.

Author : Malvern College
Publisher : Malvern College
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Malvernian 2014 by Malvern College Pdf

News from the year at Malvern College

Author : Alastair Goodrum
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445695464

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Through Adversity by Alastair Goodrum Pdf

The stories of three individual careers combine seamlessly to tell the dramatic story of the RAF from the era of biplanes and into the jet age of the Cold War.

Author : J.H. Evans
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781465359650

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Only Angels Have Wings? by J.H. Evans Pdf

John H Evans has been a commercial airline pilot and airline executive for almost 40 years. He grew up as an asthmatic child in the confines of the mining valley of the Rhondda in Wales and was drawn to flying largely by his memories of a Second World War Bomber Pilot from his own village who went missing later in the war. This story tells of his search for his childhood hero, a search that took him from Canada, through the USA, the UK and finally Germany. This book is full of Johns adventures in flying and his associated entrepreneurial activities in Europe, the USA and the Caribbean. He has inadvertently mixed with the Mafia, was almost involved in the escape from Britain of one of the key Train Robbers of 1963 and spent almost a week in 1971 flying John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Through his expertise he has been largely responsible for starting five UK airline operations, and in the Caribbean was MD of a local airline, during which time he witnessed, at close hand, the import of Russian arms into the Marxist run island of Grenada, where he and his family spent two years. He was astute enough however to leave the island before the US invasion began. From Miami, where he spent a further two years, he handled a number of aircraft franchises, which took him to most of the islands in the Caribbean chain, and the book ends with his departure from New York the morning before the Twin Towers attack Now fasten your seat belts for an eventful and stimulating read!