History of Aviation

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HISTORY OFAVIAnON
Edited by
John W R-Thylor and Kenneth Munson
1500 illustrations: colour throughout
There have been many histories of human flight, but never one like this. An unrivalled team of international writers, photographers and artists, many of them pilots, aircraft designers and technicians, have recorded every aspect of the most exciting technical achievement of our century in over 500 pages of highly factual narrative and full-colour illustration.
The story begins with winged gods and birdmen, surveys the centuries when the only means of flight were balloons and airships that drifted with the breeze. Then the dreams and fantasies of mankind came true, and in just seventy years aircraft developed until even space has become the magnet for a new generation of explorers. Never has any human endeavour made such tremendous advances, and made possibly such delights, disasters and discoveries, within the range of man's own "three score years and ten."
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HISTORY OFAVIAnON
Edited by
John W R-Thylor and Kenneth Munson
1500 illustrations: colour throughout
There have been many histories of human flight, but never one like this. An unrivalled team of international writers, photographers and artists, many of them pilots, aircraft designers and technicians, have recorded every aspect of the most exciting technical achievement of our century in over 500 pages of highly factual narrative and full-colour illustration.
The story begins with winged gods and birdmen, surveys the centuries when the only means of flight were balloons and airships that drifted with the breeze. Then the dreams and fantasies of mankind came true, and in just seventy years aircraft developed until even space has become the magnet for a new generation of explorers. Never has any human endeavour made such tremendous advances, and made possibly such delights, disasters and discoveries, within the range of man's own "three score years and ten."
History of Aviation tells a story primarily of ambition and achievement, though it does not lack its follies and failures. The story it tells has many heroes, and heroines, and there will be many more in the years to come. Equally, it could never have been told but for the efforts of the unsung hundreds of thousands of people who build and fly airoplanes, be it for pleasure, profit, or simply because it is their job to do so. This is their story too.
History of Aviation was edited jointly by: John WR Taylor, FRHIstS.AFRAeS, FSLAET,
whose technical background includes seven years as a member of Sir Sydney Camm's design team at Hawker Aircraft Ltd. He has been Editor and Compiler of Jane's All the World's Aircraft since 1959, Consultant Editor of Air BP magazine since 1956, and is the author of 160 books on airspace subjects.
Kenneth Munson, who has specialized for many years in aviation journalism and is the author of more than two dozen books. He is an Assistant Compiler of Jane's All the World's Aircraft and is author and editor of the Pocket Encyclopedia of World Aircraft in Co/or series. Vissza