Opening this book’s cover lets a reader step back in time with factory fresh cockpit photographs of over 100 aircraft. Readers see large cockpit detail photographs, an aircraft view is inserted for less known aircraft. Each aircraft is identified and interesting narrative is included that provide a glimpse into many obscure or forgotten plane details. Readers have told us that they look at the photographs time and time again seeing new details each time they look at their favorite aircraft. There is an emphasis on aircraft of the mid-1940s through 1950s which includes general aviation, military aircraft, racers and commercial airliners. If love vintage aircraft you have to add this book to your collection.
Enjoy a nostalgic look at Cessna aircraft during the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s through ninety pages of vintage photographs and interesting, informative text. If you learned to fly, or spent time with Cessna aircraft, these unique images will rekindle many memories. The images and information contained in Cessna Sensations will open your eyes to the number of vintage Cessna aircraft still flying. Sit back and take a ride through Cessna's history including the WWII aircraft, transports and the golden years of aviation after WWII. Cessna sells this book to the company's flying club members.
Turing the pages of Vintage Airliners transports a reader from the first commercial passenger aircraft including the early Ford Tri-Motor, Curtiss Condor and Kingbird to the Douglas DC-1 and DC-3 and concludes with the early jet age of the Comet and 707. Readers will find exciting interior pictures of early aircraft the luxury aircraft of the 1950s.
Most people don't know that lounges, sleeper compartments and commuter airliners are not new. You'll see surprising lounge photographs with people enjoying a drink while they traveled around the world by propeller driven aircraft. American Airlines, United, Delta, Northwest, TWA, Pan American, Eastern, National, KLM, Australian National Airlines, Mohawk, Capital and dozens of other carriers are represented in seldom seen photographs. Looking over the pages of Vintage Airliners is like visiting a dozen museums while sitting in the comfort of your own home.
This is the perfect book for the aviation or Warbird enthusiast. Readers tell us they look its pages time and time again seeing new detail on each visit. As you turn the pages, you will see surprising vintage photographs of each of the bombers, dive bombers and fighter bombers that helped to create American Airpower. There is fact filled narrative on each of its 120 pages with more than 140 photographs, most not seen in decades. “John Cilio has managed to write this book so it will appeal to all age groups, from those with little or no knowledge of bomber aircraft, right thru to those who are serious aviation buffs. It is well illustrated with informative text and lots of great photographs. A book you can return to, time and time again”. – Paul Clouting, Aviation Historian
Helicopter Evolution shares vintage images, 1907 thru 1974, of the creative visionaries who experimented with new rotorcraft designs continually pushing the envelope. With a foreword by Nickolai Sikorsky the book shows the inventions, improvements and advancements of helicopters that were captured on film and have been lost or forgotten for decades. The book shares a private archive of vintage commercial photographs seldom seen that include all types of rotorcraft photographs including; American Helicopter, Bendix, Brantley, Cessna, Curtis-Wright, and Curtiss-Wright, de Bothezat, Domain, Firestone, Helicopter Engineering, Mc Culloch, Marquardt and Roteron. Many other companies are included, including better known companies like: Boeing, Sikorsky, Hiller, Piasecki, Kaman and Kellett. Each photograph is accompanied by informative narrative often provided from the original press release.
These women imagined success and achieved it but when the war ended, so did female equality. The book concludes with how the women of WWII would not accept that outcome and worked in and with Congress, with the president, the unions and across the courts. Their objective: remove the barriers to equal pay for equal work and provide a workplace free from gender discrimination.