The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Propeller Airliners

This book contains lists of specifications, three-views, cutaways and colour illustrations, as well as the historical and mechanical details of aircraft which shrunk the world within 50 years. The early airliners, beginning with the Humber-Sommer, which first flew in 1910, and the Ford and Fokker tri-motors, the legendary DC-3 and its partner the Ju-52. WW2 bombers were converted to passenger aircraft after the war, much as WW1 bombers had been in 1918. For instance, the versatile DH.38 Mosquito was used for high-speed passenger flights between Sweden and Scotland. The turboprop airliners of the 1950s include such classics as the Britannia and the Viscount, but with the development of other powerplants, the turboprop is now most popular for smaller inner-city domestic airliners in Europe and the USA...