Ultra-large aircraft, 1940-1970
Subtitle: the development of guppy and expanded fuselage transports
By: William Patrick Dean
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781476665030
Subjects: Transport planes; History
Description: "This comprehensive history of expanded fuselage aircraft begins in the 1940s with the military's need for a long-range transport and covers the development of designs by Boeing, Convair and Douglas, and their challenges and failures. Maneuvers of financiers, corporate raiders, mobsters and others provide a look at aviation development from the drawing board to the scrap yard"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.