Timechart of Aviation History

Few advances in technology have shaped the world in which we live as much as the airplane. From the historic day in 1903 when the Wright  brothers achieved their first tentative powered flight, aircraft have come to dominate global transport and communications in a way taht could not have been imagined a century earlier--the world has literally become 'a smaller place.'

The Timechart of Aviation History provides an authoritative and accessible guide to the development of all types of flying machines--from balloons, dirigibles and gliders, through biplanes, triplanes, fighters, bombers, airliners and seaplanes to the very latest supersonic jets, stealth bombers and attack helicopters. 

The contents include:

• The History of Aviation: an illustrated overview of the subject
• The Timechart of Aviation: a spectacular 16-page diagram with gatefolds to provide complete continuity, fully illustrated and graphically depicting the history of aircraft from earliest times (including the balloons of the nineteenth century) to the present. The subjects are classified to enable the reader to compare development in:
  • Lighter Than Air Craft
  • Military Aviation
  • Wars and Weapons
  • Civil Aviation
  • Technical Development
• Inside the gatefolds are concise biographies of the major personalities in the history of aviation--great aviators and pioneers, plus the designers and builders of a century's aircraft.