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(More customer reviews)If you loved the early days of jet aviation, then this a book for you. Filled with wonderful photographs and great artwork of the aircraft in operator color shemes, this book will be hard to put down. Form the history of each aircraft, including the early propliners that these jets replaced, to their demise in later years. It's all here in one volume. The text is fluent and the technical aspects of each aircraft is explained nicely so as not to get too confusing. Having flown in many a 707 and DC-8 in Pan Am colors in the 1960's as a child, the photos bring back lots of memories. This book would make a perfect gift for anyone who was affiliated with those magnificant jets. The VC-10 section is not as lengthy as the American planes but it is solid and informative. Each military variant is captured too. I think these three types of aircraft where hijacked in the early seventies and blown up in the desert. The sight of the VC-10 tail section burning in the sand was a sight for sore eyes!
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The sixth volume in the Legends of the Air Series, Boeing707, Douglas DC-8 and Vickers VC10 studies in depth three pioneering longrange jet airliners responsible for shrinking the globe, plus the militaryKC-135 members of the Boeing 707, an aircraft which paved the way forBoeing's commercial airliner success. In turn this books looks at the diverse Boeing 707 family, ranging fromthe many 707 airliner variants, to the medium range 720 airliner, KC-135Stratotanker (more than 700 were built) and the many 707 militarydevelopments such as the E-3 Sentry AWACS; the story of the Douglas DC-8,a very competent and well liked airliner but as a program one that nearlybankrupted Douglas and led to the merger with McDonnell; and the VickersVC10, a considerable technical achievement whose sales were hamstrung byunique design requirements and poor timing. Boeing 707, Douglas DC-8 and Vickers VC10 features around 70,000 words oftext, hundreds of photographs, 48 specifically commissioned color sideviewdrawings, technical drawings, specification and production tables, andmore.
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