Civil Aircraft of Yesteryear

The pictorial album format adopted with such success for the author's Warplanes of Yesteryear has again been chosen to present another scrapbook, this time from the world of civil aviation. As with its companion volume, Civil Aircraft of Yester-year is not so much a type-by-type survey as a mixture of "well-knowns" and "one-offs" from nearly fifty years of civil flying. They range in size and purpose from the tiny "Pou-du-Ciel" to the giant Handley Pages and the Princess and Hughes flying boats.
There are nearly 260 halftone illustrations, each with an informative caption. Their reading may gently instil a little history, but this is incidental; their presentation is designed primarily to interest and entertain.



by Kenneth Munson
Published by Ian Allan 1967 1st edn. 122pp profusely illustrated, very good, including d/j.






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