1935 AMERICAN AIR CORP TEST PILOT EXPERIMENTAL - French Aeronautics Gold Medal

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1935 AMERICAN AIR CORP TEST PILOT EXPERIMENTAL - French Aeronautics Gold Medal:
$125.00

FIRST Edition - of this small neat book in its original pictorial dust-jacket; an extraordinary life as a pilot - test pilot for both military and private. He dies a fiery death in a 20,000 foot altitude power dive straight down like a dropped stone during a test run; wing snapped off and his plane went into a death spiral! see obit i pulled from the internet. But what a life and what a way to go out !

First Time Offered

FRENCH AIR MEDAL FROM 1945 - HEAVY GILT MEDAL - selectively issued -

WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE

TEST PILOT

JIMMY COLLINS

(THE SUN DIAL PRESS, 1935 first edition)

178-PAGES pages clean and bright; dust jacket in archival dust sleeve;

COLLINS GRADUATED IN THE SAME CLASS AS CHARLES LINDBERGH

TEST PILOT MEMOIR - DETAILS HIS exploits as a US ARMY Test pilot; Private company Test pilot for Curtiss; advisor to the Chinese National Air force formation early on;worked on aircraft at MARCH AIR FORCE BASE, Riverside, California in the late 1920s- great read and stunning French air medal!!

FOUND THE MEDAL INSIDE THE SAME SMALL BOX AS

AS I FOUND THE BOOK and other personal effects;

SO SELLING THEM BOTH TOGETHER

**YOU ARE offerDING ON BOTH THE BOOK AND THE FRENCH GOLD AIR MEDAL = ORIGINAL AND SCARCE!

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