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GIANTS OF THE SKY: THE BIGGEST AEROPLANES OF ALL TIME

by Bill Gunston

Published by Patrick Stephens Limited. 1st. 1991

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Large format. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos.

Bumping to top and tail of spine. Small knocks along cover edges. Browning and foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with a faded spine.

ISBN: 1852602589
Stock no. 2134096

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Contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Pre-1920
  • 1. Maxim biplane
  • 2. Sikorsky IM series
  • 3. Staaken R series
  • 4. Dornier Rs series
  • 5. Other German R-types
  • 6. Kennedy Giant
  • 7. Felixstowe Fury
  • 8. Curtiss NC series
  • 9. Tarrant Tabor
  • The 1920s
  • 10. Grahame-White 24-seater
  • 11. English Electric Phoenix Pulex
  • 12. Gosport G.9
  • 13. Supermarine 3,000 hp
  • 14. Vickers Vigilant
  • 15. Junkers projects
  • 16. Caproni Ca60
  • 17. Fairey N.4
  • 18. Engineering Division XNBL-1
  • 19. Beardmore Inflexible
  • 20. Caproni Ca90
  • 21. Dornier Do X
  • 22. Junkers G38
  • 23. General Development monoplane
  • The 1930s
  • 24. Sikorsky flying boats
  • 25. Short S.14 Sarafand
  • 26. Supermarine 179
  • 27. Turpolev ANT-16, 22, 26 and 28
  • 28 Kalinin K-7
  • 29. Tupolev ANT-20 and 20bis
  • 30. Martin 130 and 156
  • 31. Kozlov Gigant
  • 32. Latecoere 521, 522 and 523
  • 33. Junkers Ju90, 290 and 390
  • 34. Boeing 294, XB-15
  • 35. Boeing 314 and 320
  • 36. Douglas DC-4
  • The 1940s
  • 37. Blohm und Voss BV222 and BV238
  • 38. Ju322 Mammut and Me321/323 Gigant
  • 39. Douglas B-19
  • 40. Potez-CAMS 161
  • 41. Martin 170 Mars
  • 42. SNCASE SE200
  • 43. Latecoere 631
  • 44. CCF B-1000 and B-2000B
  • 45. Dornier Do214
  • 46. Short Shetland
  • 47. Douglas Globemaster
  • 48. Northrop B-35 and B-49
  • 49. Convair B-36
  • 50. Lockheed Constitution
  • 51. Hughes H-4 Hercules
  • 52. Blackburn Clydesman
  • 53. Breda-Zappata BZ.308
  • 54. Breguet Deux Ponts
  • 55. Sud-Est 2010 Amagnac
  • 56. Bristol 167 Brabazon
  • The 1950s
  • 57. Boeing B-52
  • 58. Convair YB-60
  • 59. Saunders-Roe SR.45 Princess
  • 60. Tupolev Tu95, 114 and 142
  • 61. Saunders-Roe projects
  • 62. Douglas XC-132
  • 63. Douglas C-133 Cargomaster
  • 64. Myasishchyev M-50
  • 65. Avro 730
  • The 1960s
  • 66. WS-125A (NPB)
  • 67. Short Belfast
  • 68. North American XB-70 Valkyrie
  • 69. Antonov An-22 Antei
  • 70. Aero Spacelines Super Guppy
  • 71. BAC VC10 projects
  • 72. CX-HLS and the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy
  • 73. Boeing 747
  • Since 1970
  • 74. Douglas C-6
  • 75. Boeing SST
  • 76. Lockheed HAPP
  • 77. An-124 Ruslan and An-225 Mriya
  • 78. Flying boat 2000?
  • 79. Soviet giant freighter
  • 80. Spanloaders
  • Tables:
  • Wing areas
  • Wing spans
  • Horsepower/pounds thrust
  • Maximum take-off weights
  • Index

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