Aircraft

past and present

Dalmau, David

"AIRCRAFTS, PAST AND PRESENT provides a captivating pictorial survey of the history of human flight. In man's eternal quest to discover and invent, his first steps in aeronautics coincided with the development of photography. Both new sciences aroused passionate enthusiasm. Since man first conceived a machine to defy the laws of gravity, flying has been a constant source of fascination. In this book have been brought together some classic and often relatively unknown pictures of aircraft exemplifying the various stages of man's conquest of the skies. Some show warplanes while others illustrate the development of civil aviation, but all of them are evidence of the inventive genius of their designers."