Item #008974 Soaring with the Schweizers: The Fifty-Year History of Their Aviation Adventures. William Schweizer.

Soaring with the Schweizers: The Fifty-Year History of Their Aviation Adventures

Falls Church, Virigina: Rivilo Books, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine / Fine. Item #008974

Full blue paper boards. vii, 244 pp., [24 pp. appendixes]. B&W photos in text. Spine tilted, else fine in fine jacket. Two page article about Virginia "Ginny" Schweizer (nee Mayer) laid in. Three boys named Schweizer launched a glider in New York State in 1930 - and with it a revolution in American aviation that continues today. William "Bill" Schweizer tells the story of this remarkable brotherhood and the company it made: the Schweizer Aircraft Corporation, the only family-owned aviation company to survive the past half century intact.

Price: $45.00

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