[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Aviation Archive: Sikorsky S-35 Wreck including book recovered from crash site

[Charles Agvent]

One of 65 fine items from our new Spring Catalog recently posted on our 
website: http://www.erols.com/agvent

ARCHIVE  OF SIKORSKY S-35 WRECK INCLUDING PHOTOGRAPHS AND  A  BOOK
RECOVERED  FROM  THE  CRASH SITE. [1926]. Archive  includes  17  early
silver  gelatin photographs and a book recovered from the crash  site,
including  THE  ONLY  KNOWN  IMAGE OF THIS RARE  AIRCRAFT  TAXING  FOR
TAKE-OFF.  The  photographs include four images of the  Sikorsky  S-35
before  its ill-fated attempted transatlantic flight, one of the plane
taxing on the runway, one of the Sikorsky hanger, ten of the wreckage,
and  one  of  an  unidentified person with  automobile.  The  wreckage
photographs  are quite detailed and graphic, showing the extent of the
huge  fire that engulfed the plane when it cracked during takeoff  due
to  landing gear malfunction on 21 September 1926. The book  recovered
from  the  crash  is  PRACTICAL AVIATION  INCLUDING  CONSTRUCTION  AND
OPERATION  by  Andrew  White,  1918,  Wireless  Press, 197 pages  with
illustrations.  Of  the four members of the crew Capt. Rene Fonck  and
co-pilot  Lt. Lawrence Curtin escaped. Veteran mechanic Jacob Islamoff
and  radio  operator Charles Clavier were killed. The plane  had  been
heavily  modified  to attempt to win the $25,000 Orteig price for  the
first  non-stop flight from New York to Paris, won the following  year
by  Charles Lindbergh in The Spirit of St. Louis. Most images slightly
light,  one torn in half and missing right side, book with heavy wear,
as one would expect. Good to Very Good                        $2500.00

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