Eagle Book of Aircraft covers all aspects of flight that were known about at
the time the book was written. Starting with balloons, then kites, the story of the
development of aircraft is told in text and pictures right up to the most current
aircraft at the end of the 1950's, rockets and helicopters.
Original Price : Unknown
Published by : Hulton Press Ltd. First published in 1953, Fourth revised edition in 1957
Dimensions : 21cm x 26.5cm with 192 pages.
Selected highlights:
- Fly from London to New York for only £173 return
- Cutaways drawings showing a B.O.A.C. airliner with separate gentlemen's dressing-room and ladies' powder-room
- See early VTOL aircraft from Bell
| Contents |
|---|
| PART ONE |
| How it all started |
| page 7 |
| PART TWO |
| The 'How and Why' of Flying |
| page 63 |
| PART THREE |
| Wings to Lift a World |
| page 103 |
| Colour plates | |
|---|---|
| Between pages | |
| Twin Pioneer Aids Supplies to the Jungle | 24-25 |
| The World's Air-speed Record Holder | 24-25 |
| The Royal Navy's Twin Turboprop Aircraft | 72-73 |
| For Agricultural Flying in New Zealand | 72-73 |
| The World's First Jet Air Liner | 120-121 |
| The Worlds's First Turboprop Air Liner | 120-121 |
| A Supersonic Light Jet Fighter | 168-169 |
| Britain's Largest Freighter Aircraft | 168-169 |