Designed just before World War Two after special requirements from the American tycoon Howard Hughes, the Lockheed Constellation is celebrated today as one of the finest flying machine ever built. As a civilian aircraft, it has been the first airliner able to cross the Atlantic Ocean non stop, but it also has had a respectable military career, thanks to its brilliant characteristics which allowed it to fulfill missions of electronic warfare and AWACS. Details all the different models, and comprehensively and beautifully illustrated throughout.
Название: Lockheed Constellation: From Excalibur to Starliner Civilian and Military Variants
Автор: Dominique Breffort
Издательство: Histoire and Collections
ISBN: 2915239622
Год издания: 2006
Страниц: 178
Язык: английский
Формат: PDF
Размер: 152 МБ
