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(More customer reviews)This book reviews the history of the 11 largest trunk carriers flying at the end of the CAB regulated era. Only 6 of the profiled carriers (soon to be only five with the AA purchase of TW)survive today.
I found the book wonderfully quirky...
It features some facinating photography of each carriers aircraft and promotional material, much of it in color.
However the book is uneven in it's editorial content. The amount of material devoted to each carrier is somewhat related to it's size relative to about 1970. Hense, there is relatively more information devoted to EA and TW versus NW and DL.
Lastly, the book fails to cover some of the major events of each profiled carrier. Events such as why EA, TW, and PA failed are given a short shift. In 12 pages of EA history, only 3 short paragraphs explain it's last 8 troublesome years. Employees of each profiled airline will probably be asking "how could the author leave that event out?"
Overall the book gives an detailed perspective of how the industry developed from it's infancy to about 1985, after that the editorial content thins out.
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Constellations, tri-motors, and DC-3s are featured decked-out in the liveries of their owners and presented in stunning color artworks created by such famed artists as Norman Rockwell, Calder, and other popular painters. Nostalgic poster art contained within tells the history of yesteryears airways through its free-spirited and colorful advertising.
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