Product Description: Today, we take it for granted that we can fly anywhere in the world, but the modest beginnings of international air travel are not even a century old. The Junkers F 13, introduced in 1919, could seat only four passengers, but this plane was the mother of global commercial flight and was used on five continents...read more

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Product Description: Using many Russian sources only recently available, this book traces the development of Soviet civil and military aviation in detail. Research in Soviet archives has unearthed production figures and lists of aircraft not previously available.