This first-of-its-kind, definitive book offers a fascinating textual and visual tour of civilian, military, and commercial aviation from the earliest balloon flights to today's most advanced aircraft. Featuring 100 newly commissioned and historic maps as well as 200 related photographs, navigation charts, and historic artifacts, the Smithsonian Atlas of World Aviation charts the awe-inspiring history of flight around the world. Dana Bell, a leading expert on aviation history, explains the fascinating stories behind aviation ...
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This first-of-its-kind, definitive book offers a fascinating textual and visual tour of civilian, military, and commercial aviation from the earliest balloon flights to today's most advanced aircraft. Featuring 100 newly commissioned and historic maps as well as 200 related photographs, navigation charts, and historic artifacts, the Smithsonian Atlas of World Aviation charts the awe-inspiring history of flight around the world. Dana Bell, a leading expert on aviation history, explains the fascinating stories behind aviation's great technological advances and provides historic and social context that highlights the many ways in which these advances have changed the course of human history. Groundbreaking maps and charts include: Locations of first flights and early transatlantic flightsPan American Airways international mail and passenger routesAir sequences of the Battle of Britain, Battle of the Bulge, and Berlin AirliftModern-day flight charts, national aircraft markings, and civil aviation codes History's greatest aviation achievements come alive as never before through detailed visualization and compelling narrative. A must-have for all flight and history enthusiasts.
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Photographs/Maps. Near Fine in Very Good+ (in mylar) jacket. Hardcover. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Gift quality, textblock appears unread, mapped end papers, photographs, and maps. Cloth, sunned spine and top edges, usual shelf bumped spine and corners. Unclipped dust jacket, creased corners, bumping to the head and foot of the spine. 230pp., including bibliography and index.
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