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Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. 318pp. HARDCOVER Printed boards. NEW BOOK. SEALED & PERFECT.

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Batchelor, John (illustrator). New condition glossy color photographic boards contained in a new condition color photographic dust jacket. Includes Introduction; Individual Aircraft Sections and Index. Profusely illustrated with color photographs, black-and-white photographs, color drawings, and black-and-white line drawings. "The Complete Encyclopedia of Flight 1945-2005, Volume III, is a major work chronicling the role of aviation in the years following World War Two up to the present day. It is a book full of the significant military and civil aircraft, and several of the important conflicts, from this momentous period in the development of aviation and of world history. Aviation has played a pivotal role in the decades after the Second World War, and has featured in many of the conflicts in the post-war world. Individual sections describe many of the significant aircraft from this ground-breaking epoch, backed up with the superb artwork of John Batchelor, one of the world's great technical artists. Informative text by well-known aviation historian Malcolm V. Lowe further enhances this authoritative work. [The book] is the third and final installment of this three part Encyclopedia that tells the remarkable story of aviation." - excerpt from the rear outer cover. "The Complete Encyclopdedia of Flight 1945-2005, Volume III, comprises well over one hundred and forty of the great and the distinctive aeroplanes from the period after the Second World War up to the present day. Aviation has played a pivotal role since World War Two, and it became an important part of the Cold War nuclear stand-off between East and West. The story of aviation during that momentous time is a fascinating tale that goes hand-in-hand with the huge advances in aircraft design and propulsion that have taken place in the decades after the Second World War. All the individual aircraft described here are pictured in one or more drawings by the world-famous technical artist John Batchelor, and their stories are outlined in informative text and specifications by renowned aviation historian Malcolm V. Lowe. A number of rare photographs are also included to further illustrated these momentous aircraft and their moments in time." - from the inner front jacket flap.