Smithsonian Atlas of World Aviation

Dana Bell

HarperCollins, Jun 17, 2008 - Transportation - 240 pages

This first-of-its-kind, definitive book offers a fascinating textual and visual tour of civilian, military, and commercial aviation from the earliest balloon flights to today's most advanced aircraft.

Featuring 100 newly commissioned and historic maps as well as 200 related photographs, navigation charts, and historic artifacts, the Smithsonian Atlas of World Aviation charts the awe-inspiring history of flight around the world. Dana Bell, a leading expert on aviation history, explains the fascinating stories behind aviation's great technological advances and provides historic and social context that highlights the many ways in which these advances have changed the course of human history.

Groundbreaking maps and charts include:

• Locations of first flights and early transatlantic flights
• Pan American Airways international mail and passenger routes
• Air sequences of the Battle of Britain, Battle of the Bulge, and Berlin Airlift
• Modern-day flight charts, national aircraft markings, and civil aviation codes

History's greatest aviation achievements come alive as never before through detailed visualization and compelling narrative. A must-have for all flight and history enthusiasts.

Contents

• Europes Great Races: 1
• The First Aeronautical Charts: 3
• The Race Across America: 5
• WORLD WAR I: 7
• Over the Trenches: 9
• The Italian Campaign: 3
• The Yanks are Coming: 9
• Bombers over England: 19
• Formations Maneuvers: 21
• Closing Positions: 23
• Armistice: 9
• BETWEEN THE WARS 50 The Golden Years: 11
• Into the Stratosphere: 13
• Across America 54 Delivering the Mail: 15
• Marking the Airways: 17
• NonStop Coast to Coast: 1
• The Emerging Airlines: 3
• The Transcontinental Airline: 7
• Route Maps and Sectionals: 9
• The Domestic Airways: 3
• Linking Europe 72 The Early Airlines: 5
• The Zeppelin Liners: 7
• European Air Transport in the 1930s: 9
• Far East Connections: 5
• Britain to Australia: 7
• Into Africa: 9
• Across the Oceans 86 The First Atlantic Crossings: 11
• Atlantic Crossings after Lindbergh: 11
• KingsfordSmith and the Southern Cross: 11
• Exploring with the Lindberghs: 9
• Pan American and the Great Flying Boats: 11
• Around the World 102 The 1924 Round the World Flight: 13
• Circumnavigation Record Flights: 17
• The Frozen Wastes 114 Exploring the Arctic: 1
• Exploring the Antarctic: 3
• The Worlds Largest Airline: 17
• 166: 5
• Controlling the Airspace: 9
• APPENDICES: 9
• 226: 19

About the author

Dana Bell is a leading expert on the history of aviation. Now retired after thirty years with the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, he was formerly Technical Information Specialist at the NASM Archives and also worked at the U.S. Air Force Still Photo Depository. He is the author of more than twenty books on aviation subjects, including At the Controls; Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Directory of Airplanes; and One Hundred Years of World Military Aircraft.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Smithsonian Atlas of World Aviation
• Author: Dana Bell
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: HarperCollins, 2008
• Original from: Indiana University
• Digitized: Jun 3, 2010
• ISBN: 0061251445, 9780061251443
• Length: 240 pages
• Subjects: Transportation / Aviation / General