Livro - Atlas of World Aviation

This book offers a textual and visual tour of civilian, military, and commercial aviation from the earliest balloon flights to today´s advanced aircraft. Featuring 100 newly commissioned and historic maps as well as 200 related photographs, navigation charts, and historic artifacts, the ´Smithsonian Atlas of World Aviation´ charts the history of flight around the world. The author explains the stories behind aviation´s great technological advances and provides historic and social context that highlights the many ways in which these advances have changed the course of human history. The maps and charts include - Locations of first flights and early transatlantic flights; Pan American Airways international mail and passenger routes; Air sequences of the Battle of Britain, Battle of the Bulge, and Berlin Airlift Modern-day flight charts, national aircraft markings, and civil aviation codes.