Airlift: The Illustrated History Of Military Air Transport; Author: Bickers, Richard Townshend; Author: Spick, Mike; Hardback; Book

Author: Bickers, Richard Townshend; Author: Spick, Mike
Hardback; Book; 200 B&w and 60 Colour Illustrations
208 pages
Published: August 1998
Osprey
ISBN: 1855326930

This olorful history details the thankless jobs that military transport and cargo planes and their crews have endured day in and day out from World War I to the present. Some of the aircraft featured include the C-47, the Constellation, the French Deux Pont, the U.S. Navy Super Dakota, and the Grumman Trader. A variety of even more remarkable aircraft featured includes gliders and the gigantic Russian Antonov 124. Nearly 300 rare photographs make this book irresistible to military and aircraft enthusiasts.Including every major military transport aircraft from WW1 to the present day, with much unpublished photography.From the Handley-Page 0-400 and Vickers Vimy to the jet age and the Starlifter, this book includes every major military transport from World War I to the present day. Other aircraft reviewed include: C-47; C-87; C-69 Constellation; Avro York; French Deux Pont; and US Navy Super Dakota.