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The boys' book of model aeroplanes : how to build and fly them : with the story of the evolution of the flying machine

Collins, Francis A. (Francis Arnold), b. 1873-, Morgan, Kewpie, inscriber. DSI · 1912 · London : Eveleigh Nash · 56 pictures

A 1912 how-to book by Francis A. Collins, published in London by Eveleigh Nash, teaching boys to build and fly model aeroplanes alongside a history of flight. Halftone photographs show stick-and-fabric models laid on gravel and grass, pale wing panels against dark ground, plus propellers, bracing wires and plate captions set sideways in the margin.

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