Encyclopaedia of Civil AircraftProfiles and Specifications for Civil Aircraft from the 1920s to the Present Day

Citation

(1999), "Encyclopaedia of Civil AircraftProfiles and Specifications for Civil Aircraft from the 1920s to the Present Day", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 71 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.1999.12771fae.001

Encyclopaedia of Civil AircraftProfiles and Specifications for Civil Aircraft from the 1920s to the Present Day

General Editor: David Donald

Keywords Publication, Aircraft, Reference

This must be regarded as an important reference book. Coverage includes every significant civil aircraft that has gone into production over the 80-year history of the industry, from the converted World War I bombers of the 1920s right up to the latest wide-bodied jets. Its 816 pages contain not only detailed information on airliners, but also private and recreational planes, trainers, executive and business models, flying boats and seaplanes, together with acrobatic and other specialist types.

Each aircraft is covered in depth, with full details of the design and development stages, the range of variations and derivative models produced, in-service records and information on numbers manufactured and major customers. There are also tables of specifications with information on power plants, dimensions, performance, etc.

High quality colour and black and white photographs are to be found on every page, showing the aircraft in a range of liveries. Full-colour, three-view artworks and, in many cases, detailed and fully annotated cutaway drawings are featured as well.

The extensive and authoritative text, together with the outstanding illustrations make it an essential work of reference. Here the reader will find all the information he needs to know, not only about today's Airbuses and Boeings but also great names from the past - Douglas Dakota, Ford Trimotor, HP142, Vickers Viscount etc. - as well as a mass of material on aircraft and manufacturers that are now no more than footnotes in aviation history.

David Donald is an authority on aviation and airborne warfare who has worked on many specialist magazines, including Warplane and Aeroplane. He continues as an active writer and researcher in the field-based at his home in southern England.

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