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Commercial aviation s transition to the jet age 19521962 by craig kodera, mike machat, jon proctor although the years from 1952 to 1962 saw the rise and dominance of luxurious pistonpowered airliners like the douglas dc7, lockheed constellation, and boeing stratocruiser, revolutionary new jet airliners soon rendered them obsolete. Fal books email address the website has been deleted, but this dealer still offers a vast stock of aviation and modelling magazine backissues. We are a mail order business specializing in the sale of used and new naval, maritime, military and aviation books. Bringing together australias best industry capabilities and academia, the team nightjar. Our stock of aviation books is constantly changing. Oxfam bookshop victoria this is a rather well used copy of the aviation encyclopedia published in the usa in 1944 a fascinating insight into aviation in the mid twentieth century. Despite a rocky service career, political changes in how the military acquired its weaponry, and the addition of too much new technology, the plane provided a credible frontline deterrent in the cold war era and was used to great effect in the vietnam war and operation desert storm. Dont worry, you wont find the faraim or the pilots handbook of aeronautical knowledge here.
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