Evolution of the Airliner

By Ray Whitford

ISBN:	9781861268709
PUBLISHED:	2007
PAGES:	192
BINDING:	Hardback
SIZE:	296x210 mm
INSIDE:	200 black & white phots and diagrams

Commercial air travel has come a long way since the first purpose-built airliners took to the sky soon after the First World War. Countless innovations have enabled aircraft to fly higher, faster and more efficiently, and flights have become more comfortable and cheaper.

This important book, based on a well-received series of articles in Air International magazine, offers an unparalleled insight into the way that the airliner has evolved, and how each new breakthrough and refinement has affected the industry and the future path of development.

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