Title: Ultra-large aircraft, 1940-1970
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"--
Subjects: Transport planes, History
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century