The World's Greatest Aircraft - An Illustrated History of the Most Famous Civil and Military Planes

This book covers the development of 30 aircraft from the specifications, the first drawings,through to the prototype's maiden flight, and finally mass production. The main variants and basic functions are listed and the planes illustrated by photographs, illustrations and highly detailed cutaway drawings. The book's timeframe spans from the legendary Baron von Richthofen's novel triplane of WW1 to the European Airbus and Panavia Tornado projects of the 1980s. All the planes represent an epoch, a country, a design team and outstanding technical performance...