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Title: Flight: 100 Years of Aviation by R. G. Grant, John R. Dailey ISBN: 0-7894-8910-4 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: If you buy just one big airplane book, buy this one
Comment: This is an amazing great big book. There are hundreds of big glossy books of planes and aviation history in bookstores, and with the 100 years of powered controlled flight anniversary, there will no doubt be a few more bowing the shelves. But if you want to buy just one, say for a present, then this is the one to buy. It is balanced, it is complete, it has pictures and text in harmony -- and it is not slapped together like some other slightly embarrassing flying tomes.
Over 400 pages perfect for a youngster, yet written well enough for any adult. Is it perfect? No. But 400 pages of perfection would be hard. I would have put in RJ's rather than the F-28 in the current small airliner section, but complaining about a couple of details should not hide the fact that this is one big cool book. Whatever more detailed specialized books about flying you get later, you will not need to get a great big glossy exciting celebration of flight book again. You'll already have one of the best.
Rating: 5
Summary: One Hundre Years and Counting
Comment: This handsome record of a century of flight is a large-format heavyweight that has all the pleasures--and all the flaws--we've come to expect from a Dorling Kindersley ("DK") production. It's big, sprawling, richly illustrated and full of detail--you can lose yourself in it for hours at a time, and go back to it often. The whole of flight's crowded century is covered from the Wright Brothers to space vehicles, with two world wars (plus Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm), barnstorming, the growth of civil aviation and everything else in-between, plus a chapter on the "pre-flight" pioneers who dreamed or experimented before the Wrights. The page layouts are handsome, the illustrations big, plentiful and colorful, and the text is well-organized. Individual chapters cover specific periods; within them, fascinating developments and people are covered in sidebars. That approach gives full coverage without getting the general text bogged down, and it allows tight focus on some of the many personalities who have gone with the wings. (Yes, Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart are still familiar names--but most people will need to be reminded of the purple-jumpsuited Harriet Quimby, and Bessie Coleman, and the Red Eagles, among others.)
I give this five stars, but just barely. DK books are heavily design-oriented--page layouts must blend innumerable design items (text, illustrations large and small, captions, schematics and sidebars) into harmonious compositions. DK usually succeeds, but often at the reader's expense by sacrificing legibility. For example, captions in small italics are always hard to read, and especially so when laid over colored backgrounds or photos. The schematic indicators identifying specific airplane features are occasionally misplaced. The editing is a bit sloppy: "blooded" and "bloodied" are not synonyms, and there are many dangling modifiers--elementary grammatical lapses that should have been corrected. The proof-reading isn't up to snuff either. In one case a display quote contains a typo (inexcusable in large type); moreover, the quote seems distorted from its text version. One sidebar simply ends in mid-sentence: The text was too long for the space, and someone forget to cut it to fit. And the South African RAF ace "Sailor" Malan spelled his given name Adolph, not Adolf. DK owes readers rather more attention to detail.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Aviation History Resource
Comment: I first opened this book in a local bookstore and was glued to the stories and beautifully formatted sections. The sections are really well illustrated, with interesting facts, characters, and informative overviews of the key aircraft of the last hundred years. It is so complete, and full of information that it is a resource to come back to again and again. I've never owned any book about airplanes, but now I see why! This puts all aircraft history at your fingertips.
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Title: Aviation: The First 100 Years by Bill Gunston ISBN: 0764154230 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Museum of Flight, 100 Years of Aviation History: From the Wright Brothers to the Moon by Abe Aisling, Richard Bach, Alan Mulally, Buzz, Jr. Aldrin, Pinky Nelson, Bill Anders, Robert Kelly, Museum of Flight ISBN: 1586190393 Publisher: Elton-Wolf Publishing Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $38.00 |
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Title: The Greatest Flying Stories Ever Told: Nineteen Amazing Tales from The Sky by Lamar Underwood ISBN: 158574512X Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Aviation Year by Year by Bill Gunston ISBN: 0789479869 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Ultimate Aircraft by Philip Jarrett, Phillip Jarret ISBN: 0789459612 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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