Wright To Fly - Royal Air Force -100 year History of Flight - As new boxed Illustrated. See Pictures

This is a near mint, slip-boxed history of 100 years of flight!.

"With its expert text and its paintings by renowned aviation artists, Wright to Fly is a splendid tribute to the people, aircraft, and events that have shaped the amazing story of powered flight since the Wright brothers’ first successful flight on December 17, 1903. A hundred beautifully reproduced paintings illustrate the enormous strides that have been made—from the flimsy wood and fabric aircraft of the earliest years, through the powerful piston–engine fighters and bombers of World War II, to the stealth jets, the Concorde supersonic airliner, and shuttle–flight into space.

After a foreword by Sir Peter G Masefield and an introduction by Peter March, the body of the book takes each year in turn, a narrative summary of the key aviation advances of the year is complimented by a diary giving dates of key events, and a full colour plate of a painting relevant to the period. Artists include Taylor, Trudgian, Coulson, Ferris, Turner, Wong and Postlethwaite. Presentation is excellent, in summary this is a good combination of useful reference and some fine examples of aviation art, many of which most readers will not have seen before."

 

 

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