AircraftFeaturing superb, full-color photographs and illustrations, the guide captures the excitement of our conquest of the air and the fascinating world of flying machines. |
Contents
How to use this book | 8 |
Nose to tail | 22 |
Wings over the world | 34 |
Copyright | |
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AEROBATICS ailerons Air Force air show Airbus airliner airport airships airspeed aviation Avro Triplane balloon Bell X-1 biplane blades Blériot Boeing BOMBER bombs cabin cable cargo CARRIER carry cockpit combat Concorde cruising speed cylinders DOGFIGHTS Douglas ejection seat electronic elevator enemy equipment experimental aircraft fighter flew flight deck flying boat Fokker foreplanes Fuel tank fuselage Gearbox German gliders Havilland Hawker Hawker Hart HAWKER TEMPEST helicopter in-flight jacket JET ENGINES Jet exhaust jetliner km/h landing gear LANDMARKS OF FLIGHT Lilienthal LINE OF AIRCRAFT Lockheed Louis Blériot Mach machine metal missiles monoplane Museum nose nozzle OXYGEN MASK parachute PARAGLIDERS passengers pilot pioneer piston engine plane powered propeller radar rear refueling RJ-SERIES rudder Rutan Voyager SEAPLANES SIKORSKY R-4 Sopwith Pup supersonic swing-wing tail rotor tailplane takeoff and landing thrust Today Triplane turbine turbofan turbojet turboprops twin Two-seat types wheels wing World Wright brothers WRIGHT FLYER