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A large number of people in the United States had their first airplane ride in a Ford Tri-Motor during the 1920s and 1930s, a plane that remains to this day a fine example of engineering, planning and production. It was the application of a modified assem
Presented in this book is the story of the former Frontier Airlines from its founding just after World War II to its eventual demise in the 1980s. The legacy of pioneering air service, purchasing jets, and competing after airline deregulation are just a f
This book collects some of the finest writings, both fact and realistic fiction, to lay bare the drama of human beings coping with the skills needed to direct their machines through the vastness of the skies. With contributions from: Charles Lindbergh, Er
The Albatross was the premier fixed-wing rescue aircraft for the U.S. Air Force and Coast Guard. Its very colorful history begins in 1946 and spans nearly a quarter of a century, including service with twenty-two foreign nations.
Heathrow Airport: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow hardcover
Publlshed August 2019, black & white photographs, hardcover 6" x 9.5" inches
Take your seats, and by all means, fasten your seat belts! Come on a journey back in time to aviation's most daring and innovative era. Travel back nine decades, when for the first time, airplanes determined the victors of global wars—a time that altered
Between 1967 and 1997 Keith Spragg progressed from the greenest new co-pilot on a piston-engined Vickers Viking to a fully qualified jet captain. He then went on to become an experienced pilot trainer and examiner. The story of that journey, told in I Hav
This book, the first on Interflug in the English language, tell the fascinating story of this unusual airline, its mission, its fleet, and what it was like to fly it, to work there, and live in those times.
Published April 2022, 286 pages, 18 black & white and 15 colour photographs, 5 line drawings, bibliography, softcover, 6 1/4 inches x 9 1/4 inches
Jetliners Of The Red Star goes behind the Iron Curtain to tell the story of the jet airliners of the Soviet Union.The Tu-104, Tu-124, Tu-134, supersonic Tu-144, Tu-154, Tu-204, the Ilyushin Il-62, Il-86 and Il-96, and Yakovlev Yak-40 and Yak-42 get a chap
The most definitive account published in recent years of this mainstay of the Luftwaffe that first saw military service in the 1930s and was then engaged in operations in the Spanish Civil War through to the end of World War II.
If you are a fan of aviation history, The Leslie Corness Propliner Collection belongs in your library. The story begins in the 1930s with young Leslie photographic aviation at Edmonton's historic Blatchord Field. The early pages show how his interests evo
Clarence 'Kelly' Johnson's design for the Lockheed Constellation, known affectionately as the 'Connie', produced one of the world's most iconic airliners. Lockheed had been working on the L-044 Excalibur, a four-engine, pressurized airliner, since 1937. I
Lockheed Constellation: Historic Commercial Aircraft Series: HCAS: Volume 8 softcover: softcover
Published August 2023, 160 pages, black & white and colour photographs, softcover, 9 3/4 inches x 7 inches
Published October March 2021, 256 pages, hundreds of black & white and colour photographs and illustrations, panel diagrams, 3-view drawing, production list, bibliography, index, hardcover, 6.5" x 9.5"
The Lockheed Ventura PV-1 AND PV-2 Harpoon was a bomber and patrol aircraft of World War II, used by United States and British Commonwealth forces in several guises. It was developed from the Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar transport.
The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 three-engine jet is one of the most distinctive wide-bodied aircraft and since the early 1970s has been operated by many airlines on medium- and long-distance routes throughout the world. Successfully flying passenger service f
Modern Civil Airliners is the one-stop reference for major airliners in service worldwide. Its 176 pages cover 40 airliner types, mostly in a four-page-per-type format that combines beautiful photography with data and a concise history.
Following the success of Tickets Please, here is a new collection of airline tickets spanning the modern history of travel, once again curated by Sebastian Schmitz and this time drawing exclusively from the collection of Athanasios Gklavas, perhaps the wo
Published March 2023, 242 pages, many colour photographs, softcover, 5 1/4" x 8 1/2" inches
Graham M. Simons presents a balanced history of Olympic Airways, beginning with the story of its origin and bringing the story fully up to date. This is the most comprehensive history of the airline to be released thus far. It is extremely well illustrat
An aviation history of the airfields and seaplane bases which were part of the communities of the west coast of British Columbia and Alaska............
Through his award-winning artwork, Mike Machat has documented aviation for the past 40 years in ways never before seen, a process made possible by flying in many of the aircraft he painted, and developing life-long personal friendships with pilots of the