GRONAU, Wolfgang von.

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Weltflieger. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Sergei Sikorsky, dem Sohn des grossen Luftfahrtpioniers mit den besten Wünschen für erfolgreiche Arbeit beim Ausbau des Weltluftverkehrs in Freundschaft. Wolfgang von Gronau, Köln, Januar 1956" (Sergei Sikorsky, son of the great aviation pioneer, with best wishes for successful work in expanding world air transport. In friendship. Wolfgang von Gronau, Cologne, January 1956).Sergei Sikorsky's father, Igor, was a pioneering designer of both helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft. Sergei rose to Vice-President of Special Projects at Sikorsky Aircraft. Von Gronau was also an aviation pioneer, and served as the German air attaché and chief of the Luftwaffe liaison staff in Japan. The memoirs centre on his landmark global flight of 1932.

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