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Description
Magnificently illustrated with such an amount of photographs, this huge photo album depicts a pioneering flight with three Tiger Moth biplanes, taking off from Great Britain to reach the Soviet Union ( 1989 ).
Characteristics
| Book cover finish | Canvas finish, Hardcover ( square back binding ) |
| Special features | First edition, Dedicated copy, Slightly damaged dust jacket |
| Condition | Used |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Published date | 1990 |
| Languages | English |
| Size | 26 x 32 x 2 cm |
| Author | Jonathan Elwes - Herbie Knott |
| Editor | Quiller Press Limited |
Description
It was in April 1989 that a trio of Tiger Moth biplanes took off from White Waltham airfield in Berkshire for Sheremetyevo airport, the " Heathrow " of the Soviet Union.
( … ) The three British pilots with their Russian navigators undertook the whole pioneering flight - the first foreign touring flight in the Soviet Union since John Grierson's in 1932 - in the true spirit of the thirties, and the book reflects this.
The story proceeds at a tremendous pace through a variety of classic aviation adventures - failing radios, broken tailskids, hazardous weather, treetop approaches - all of which add up not only to a flight of a lifetime, but also a prelude to an almost certain lifting of barriers to private aviation in Soviet airspace. ( ... )
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