GIANTS OF THE SKY: THE BIGGEST AEROPLANES OF ALL TIME
Written by Bill Gunston
Published by Patrick Stephens Limited
in 1991
ISBN: 1852602589
GIANTS OF THE SKY: THE BIGGEST AEROPLANES OF ALL TIME
Written by Bill Gunston.
Stock no. 2134096
1st.
1991.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Large format. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1852602589. Bumping to top and tail of spine. Small knocks along cover edges. Browning and foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with a faded spine.
Front cover
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Pre-1920
- 1. Maxim biplane
- 2. Sikorsky IM series
- 3. Staaken R series
- 4. Dornier Rs series
- 5. Other German R-types
- 6. Kennedy Giant
- 7. Felixstowe Fury
- 8. Curtiss NC series
- 9. Tarrant Tabor
- The 1920s
- 10. Grahame-White 24-seater
- 11. English Electric Phoenix Pulex
- 12. Gosport G.9
- 13. Supermarine 3,000 hp
- 14. Vickers Vigilant
- 15. Junkers projects
- 16. Caproni Ca60
- 17. Fairey N.4
- 18. Engineering Division XNBL-1
- 19. Beardmore Inflexible
- 20. Caproni Ca90
- 21. Dornier Do X
- 22. Junkers G38
- 23. General Development monoplane
- The 1930s
- 24. Sikorsky flying boats
- 25. Short S.14 Sarafand
- 26. Supermarine 179
- 27. Turpolev ANT-16, 22, 26 and 28
- 28 Kalinin K-7
- 29. Tupolev ANT-20 and 20bis
- 30. Martin 130 and 156
- 31. Kozlov Gigant
- 32. Latecoere 521, 522 and 523
- 33. Junkers Ju90, 290 and 390
- 34. Boeing 294, XB-15
- 35. Boeing 314 and 320
- 36. Douglas DC-4
- The 1940s
- 37. Blohm und Voss BV222 and BV238
- 38. Ju322 Mammut and Me321/323 Gigant
- 39. Douglas B-19
- 40. Potez-CAMS 161
- 41. Martin 170 Mars
- 42. SNCASE SE200
- 43. Latecoere 631
- 44. CCF B-1000 and B-2000B
- 45. Dornier Do214
- 46. Short Shetland
- 47. Douglas Globemaster
- 48. Northrop B-35 and B-49
- 49. Convair B-36
- 50. Lockheed Constitution
- 51. Hughes H-4 Hercules
- 52. Blackburn Clydesman
- 53. Breda-Zappata BZ.308
- 54. Breguet Deux Ponts
- 55. Sud-Est 2010 Amagnac
- 56. Bristol 167 Brabazon
- The 1950s
- 57. Boeing B-52
- 58. Convair YB-60
- 59. Saunders-Roe SR.45 Princess
- 60. Tupolev Tu95, 114 and 142
- 61. Saunders-Roe projects
- 62. Douglas XC-132
- 63. Douglas C-133 Cargomaster
- 64. Myasishchyev M-50
- 65. Avro 730
- The 1960s
- 66. WS-125A (NPB)
- 67. Short Belfast
- 68. North American XB-70 Valkyrie
- 69. Antonov An-22 Antei
- 70. Aero Spacelines Super Guppy
- 71. BAC VC10 projects
- 72. CX-HLS and the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy
- 73. Boeing 747
- Since 1970
- 74. Douglas C-6
- 75. Boeing SST
- 76. Lockheed HAPP
- 77. An-124 Ruslan and An-225 Mriya
- 78. Flying boat 2000?
- 79. Soviet giant freighter
- 80. Spanloaders
- Tables:
- Wing areas
- Wing spans
- Horsepower/pounds thrust
- Maximum take-off weights
- Index