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Flight: 100 Years of Aviation [Hardcover]

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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Carlton Books Ltd (11 Jun 2009)
  • ISBN-10: 1847322859
  • ISBN-13: 978-1847322852
  • Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 21.4 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"'A sumptuous tribute' - The Bookseller '[A] beautiful pictorial history' - Publishing News 'Guaranteed to indulge the young boy's fascination with planes that lies in every grown man.' - JACK magazine 'Trust us, it craps all over Harry Potter.' - FHM magazine"

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Over a hundred years ago, on a windswept beach, Wilbur and Orville Wright took to the air - and, all too quickly, came down. Very soon, though, better concepts spread their wings: aircraft transformed warfare; they offered safe, speedy travel to distant places; the most advanced versions even touched the edge of space. The story of aviation provides tales of dreamers and visionaries: Juan Trippe conquered the world's oceans with Pan American World Airways; Hermann Goering built his Luftwaffe; US General Curtis leMay turned air power into a war-winning weapon and William Allen of Boeing defeated his rival Donald Douglas as they vied for leadership in the postwar skies. Vivid moments have marked a century of aviation include: Louis Bleriot making the first aerial crossing of the English Channel; Charles Lindbergh, alone in his cockpit, slapping his face to stay awake; Edward Musick of Pan Am, flying with a heavy fuel-load, barely clearing a major bridge near San Francisco; and, test pilot Chuck Yeager falling 10 miles in his out-of-control rocket plane, but achieving a safe landing. In Flight Informative text with stunning images from the National Air and Space Museum, the US National Archives and major manufacturers like Boeing Airbus and NASA, captures the drama, vividness and achievement of a century of flight.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very nice images., 16 Oct 2005
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This review is from: Flight: 100 Years of Aviation in Photographs (Hardcover)
This is an excellent book that is devoted to the images of flight over the last 100 years rather than the details. Most of the images are full page and spectacular (witness the cover image as an example) but if you're after descriptive prose then think again (actually you can't go wrong with buying the two books offered here as a package: one compliments the other). The print quality is good but I'm not sure about the printers QA process: I had a couple of pages still fully joined at the bottom which required the deft slitting abilities of a sharp knife! If you appreciate aircraft and history then you won't be disappointed with this. Images to savour.
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