SKY FEVER

Laid in paper signed by

Sir Geoffrey de Havilland
April 1934

Hamish Hamilton First edition, second impression 1961.  240 pages and well illustrated with photos.

A Near Fine condition hardback book in a Near Fine condition, unclipped dustjacket. Clean, tight and bright. A pleasing example of this important autobiography.

Geoffrey de Havilland (1882 -1965) was one of the world’s true pioneers of powered flight, building his own first flying machine and the engine to power it in 1909. By painstaking trial and error he then taught himself to fly in it.

He was responsible for the first and many of the finest aeroplanes of the First World War, created the company that bore his name and built such widely different and momentous machines as the light Moths, the Rapide, the Mosquito fighter-bomber and the first jet airliner, the Comet. He tested all his early planes himself, becoming a highly skilled pilot.

This autobiography is concerned with much more than the story of his aircraft and company. The people he knew span the whole history of flying and the author contrives to tell the story of British aviation through these people and the events with which he was associated, while revealing his own diversified personality.

An important book by one of the most influential and talented British pioneer aviators, enhanced by a neat de Havilland signed paper.