World Encyclopedia of Aircraft Manufacturers
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aeroplane
aeroplanes
aircraft
Author_Bill Gunston
aviation history
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eccentric designers
encyclopaedia
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oddball contraptions
plane
planes
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- ISBN 9780750939812
- Weight: 2620g
- Dimensions: 230 x 280mm
- Publication Date: 29 Sep 2005
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This new edition survey of man's attempts since 1852 to design, develop and mass-produce aeroplanes and rotorcraft has more than 3000 entries, including 1000 photographs of oddball contraptions and their eccentric designers, as well as the big companies whose aircraft have become household names.
Bill Gunston, a former RAF pilot and flying instructor, is perhaps the best -known aviation writer in Britain today., with some 300 books published in a fifty-year writing career. His recent collaborations with Sutton include, 'Night Fighters' and 'The Development of Piston Aero Engines'.
