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Aviation : the first 100 years / Bill Gunston.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hauppauge, NY : Barron's, 2002.Edition: First edition for the United States and CanadaDescription: 191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0764154230
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Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 629.1309 GUN 1 Available T00374390
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In 2003, the world will mark the hundredth anniversary of the Wright brothers' historic first flight over Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. This handsome volume celebrates humanity's first century of aviation with lavish illustrations and an exciting chronological account of aeronautical development. Following the Wright brothers came a number of pioneer designers and flyers from several European countries, including Voisin and Bleriot in France and Zeppelin in Germany. World War I saw the birth of fighter and bomber planes, while the decades between the wars witnessed the glamour of competition flying, including Lindbergh's first flight across the Atlantic and Wiley Post's seven-day flight around the world. This era also saw the dawn of commercial flight, which started as airmail service and slowly developed to include passenger service. It was the era of pioneering passenger-carrying aircraft such as the Ford Trimotor and the revolutionary Douglas DC-3. Also covered in detail are the fighters and bombers of World War II, the dawn of the jet age, the evolution of helicopters, and the birth of supersonic flight. An account of the burgeoning of the intercontinental commercial airline industry brings readers to the present, which is marked by intense competition between Boeing of the United States and Airbus of Europe, both vying for the lion's share of the market. Other topics covered in this superlative history include development of general (private) aviation, and a look at radically innovative planes, such as the Concorde SST and the Stealth military aircraft. Hundreds of photos and drawings, most of them in color, enhance an intensely readable text.

Includes index.

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction (p. 6)
  • 1 Pioneers (p. 8)
  • Hot Air to Propulsion (p. 8)
  • Early Development (p. 10)
  • 2 The First Air War (p. 12)
  • Primitive Warplanes (p. 12)
  • The First Bombers (p. 14)
  • The First Fighters (p. 16)
  • Giant Bombers and Airships (p. 18)
  • 3 Infant Airlines (p. 20)
  • North America (p. 20)
  • Europe (p. 22)
  • The First Airports (p. 24)
  • 4 Competition (p. 26)
  • The Schneider Trophy (p. 26)
  • To Fly the Atlantic (p. 28)
  • Around the World (p. 30)
  • Pylon Racing (p. 32)
  • 5 Warplanes 1918-1939 (p. 34)
  • Fighters (p. 34)
  • Bombers (p. 36)
  • Reconnaissance Aircraft (p. 38)
  • Conflicts of the Era (p. 40)
  • 6 New Technology (p. 42)
  • Aerodynamics (p. 42)
  • Structures (p. 44)
  • Propulsion (p. 46)
  • Systems (p. 48)
  • In the Cockpit (p. 50)
  • At the Airport (p. 52)
  • 7 World War II (p. 54)
  • The Luftwaffe (p. 54)
  • Battle of Britain (p. 56)
  • RAF Bombers (p. 58)
  • Barbarossa (p. 60)
  • The Rising Sun (p. 62)
  • USAAF Fighters (p. 64)
  • USAAF Bombers (p. 66)
  • U.S. Navy and Marines (p. 68)
  • D-Day (p. 70)
  • Soviet Surprises (p. 72)
  • Victory in Europe (p. 74)
  • Victory in the Pacific (p. 76)
  • 8 Post-War Progress (p. 78)
  • Airports Today (p. 78)
  • American Airliners (p. 80)
  • British Airliners (p. 82)
  • Mistaken Monsters (p. 84)
  • Piston Pinnacle (p. 86)
  • 9 The Cold War (p. 88)
  • Jet Fighters (p. 88)
  • Jet Bombers (p. 90)
  • Strategic Air Command (p. 92)
  • Soviet Fighters (p. 94)
  • Soviet Bombers (p. 96)
  • U.S. Navy Supercarriers (p. 98)
  • U.S. Navy Shore-Based Aircraft (p. 100)
  • RAF Aircraft (p. 102)
  • Royal Navy Aircraft (p. 104)
  • 10 War Gets Hot (p. 106)
  • Indo-China (p. 106)
  • Suez (p. 108)
  • Algeria (p. 110)
  • Jungle Conflicts (p. 112)
  • Vietnam (p. 114)
  • 11 General Aviation (p. 116)
  • Airplanes For All (p. 116)
  • Executive Aviation (p. 118)
  • Ag-Aviation (p. 120)
  • Flying Laboratories (p. 122)
  • Fire Bombers (p. 124)
  • 12 Rotating Wings (p. 126)
  • Early Struggles (p. 126)
  • Turbine Revolution (p. 128)
  • Battlefield Helicopters (p. 130)
  • Naval helicopters (p. 132)
  • Transport Helicopters (p. 134)
  • 13 New Ideas (p. 136)
  • Faster than Sound (p. 136)
  • On to Mach 7 (p. 138)
  • VTOLs (p. 140)
  • Tilting Windmills (p. 142)
  • Weird Shapes (p. 144)
  • 14 Airliners (p. 146)
  • Early Jetliners (p. 146)
  • Turboprops (p. 148)
  • Enter the Wide Bodies (p. 150)
  • Today's Boeings (p. 152)
  • Today's Airbuses (p. 154)
  • Jetliners Around the World (p. 156)
  • Future Supercarriers (p. 158)
  • 15 Modern Warplanes (p. 160)
  • France (p. 160)
  • Former USSR (p. 162)
  • Sweden (p. 164)
  • Surveillance (p. 166)
  • Transports and Tankers (p. 168)
  • 16 Collaboration (p. 170)
  • Jaguar and Tornado (p. 170)
  • Harrier (p. 172)
  • Fighters Around the World (p. 174)
  • Airlifters (p. 176)
  • SSTs (p. 178)
  • 17 At the Cutting Edge (p. 180)
  • Stealth (p. 180)
  • F-22 Raptor (p. 182)
  • Eurofighter Typhoon (p. 184)
  • Joint Strike Fighter (p. 186)
  • 18 Have Fun (p. 188)
  • Gliders (p. 188)
  • Seeking Pleasure (p. 190)
  • Index (p. 191)

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