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Since that windy day in 1903 when the Wright brothers became airborne, the world has witnessed amazing advances in aviation and space flight. Among the highlights of this definitive pictorial review are the Wright brothers' flyer, Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, the first airplane to circumnavigate the globe and much more. Full-color illustrations. ... Read more

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Better than one hundred rolls of film.
"Treasures of the National Air and Space Museum" beautifully capture the best this vibrant museum has to offer.The 300 illustrations are an homage to aviation history:the famous aircraft, experimentalvehicles and the obscure vessels.The illustrations include the Spirit ofSt. Louis, the Wright Flyer, Mercury and Apollo backup spacecraft,representative cutting edge aircraft for their time, and a host of otherwonderful photographs.

The museum also owns an impressive collection ofaviation-related art which this book also includes.

You can spend days inthe actual museum and not get to see all it offers, but this book will giveyou a head start and an appreciation for the breadth of the museum'scollection. ... Read more

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Auction catalogue. ... Read more

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The Washington Baltimore-Annapolis (W B & A) Electric Line. Mimeographed pages, hand drawn illustrations, large fold-out rendering (11" X 16 1/2") of W B & A Articulated Motor Cars ... Read more

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Museum Experienced Through Photos and Text
Experience the history of the Chesapeake Bay through this recently published museum guide. Full of beautiful photos and in-formative narratives. This would surely entice the new Eastern Shore visitor and prompt old friends to return. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Defense Transportation Journal, published by National Defense Transportation Association on April 1, 2001. The length of the article is 342 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Scott-St Louis Area Chapter.(Brief Article)
Publication: Defense Transportation Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2001
Publisher: National Defense Transportation Association
Volume: 57Issue: 2Page: 120

Article Type: Brief Article

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This is perhaps the finest collection of cockpit photographs in existence. The Museum (NASM) holds the world's premier collection of historic aircraft, but visitors to the museum must maintain a respectful distance. In At the Controls, NASM photographers Eric Long and Mark Avino use creative lighting techniques and an extremely wide-angle lens mounted on a short-bodied, large-format architectural camera to duplicate the sensation of actually being at the controls inside the cockpit of 45 legendary aircraft. The reader experiences a pilot's-eye view of the cockpit.

Among the 45 featured aircraft are these history-making planes: - Wright Brothers 1903 Flyer- Blériot Type XI- Fokker D.VII- Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis- Supermarine Spitfire Mk.VII- Focke-Wulf Fw 190F-8- Ilyushin IL-2 Shturmovik- Messerschmitt Me 262- Boeing B-29 Enola Gay- Sikorsky UH-34D Seahorse- Project Apollo Lunar Module- Space Shuttle Columbia ... Read more

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Great photography, broad sweep of history, but uninspiring prose.
This is a very nice, broad look at lots of cockpit interiors and aircraft exteriors. It's not as good as Nijboer and Patterson's Cockpits of the Cold War, but I found the pictures very clear and devoid of the overly-dramatic (and obscuring) artsy-fartsy photography typical of aviation history books.

This is a Smithsonian book, covering aircraft in the Smithsonian collection, so the authors and photographers had unfettered access to each of the aircraft involved. This is evident in the consistent image quality. The images are still not as inspiring as Patterson's work, though, and he had to go traipse across the world to get his aircraft. The thin volume covers the Wright Flyer to the Space Shuttle, which is a little overreaching in my opinion. I tend to like more narrow focus.

The prose is a historian's perspective, not the gritty pilot first-person accounts captured in Cockpits of the Cold War. It's not bad prose, but it's clear that the cover of the book correctly lists the writers as "editor" rather than "author." Still, this is a must-have tome for any serious aircraft afficianado.

Get in the Cockpit and Fly
If you love aircraft, this is a book for you !The photography of the cockpits is stunning.The information about the control and instruments of flying from the day Wright Brothers, to the Spirit of St. Louis, the Warbirds of WW II, to today's Spacecraft
is extraodinary !I bought the book just to have a photo of the greenhouse of th B-29 Superfortress, my plane in WW II.I was not disapointed.A plus was a view of the A Squares of my 497th bomb Group, 73rd Wing of the 20th Air force in formation. ... Read more

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Aviation Museums of Britain has established itself as a valued on-the-spot guide to the nation''s aviatio n museums. Crammed with ideas for days or weekends out, it d etails facilities at each museum and gives accurate directio ns for visitors. ' ... Read more

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"Now in paperback, the spectacular illustrated saga of aviation from the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.Drawing on the peerless collection of the National Air and Space Museum, this magnificent book brings us the story of the conquest of the skies. From the first hot-air balloon to the Wright brothers, the Apollo moon landing, the Mars Pathfinder mission and beyond, Air and Space captures the innovators, discoveries, and adventures of aviation and space flight like no other book.This is the definitive book on one of the world's largest collections of aviation and spaceflight artifacts and memorabilia. Nearly 500 illustrations include Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, Chuck Yeager's record-breaking X-1, the spacecraft and spacesuits of the first Americans to walk in space, Skylab, the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as other aircraft, rockets, and spacecraft. The National Air and Space Museum is the most visited museum in the world, with more than nine million visitors a year." ... Read more

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Great Book
A good history of flight coupled with excellent photographs. Recommended.

Air and Space : The National Air and Space Museum Story
Worth it for the photos alone. The writer shares with us his life long love of aviation. He explores the history of aviation in a fashion that will please the expert as well as the curious.

He uses the Smithsoniancollection to make points about the hsitory of aviation. The book is notlimited to a description about the collection, th e history is augmentedwith photos and anecdotes. A great book for enthusiasts, history buffs,fans of photography and readers in general ... Read more

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The National Railway Museum in York is the largest of its kind in the world and home to a wide range of railway icons - from the world's fastest steam engine to a lock of Robert Stephenson's hair - and a vast collection of locomotives and engines. The museum also has an exceptional collection of about 8,000 historic railway posters designed to be displayed in waiting rooms, booking offices and on railway platforms. Many of the posters were commissioned from well-known contemporary artists and their vibrant, bold designs still appear fresh and modern to this day. The National Railway Museum Diary 2005 includes a selection of posters which celebrates travel from the UK to the continent of Europe in the golden age of rail travel. Shown on weekly spreads, images of steam trains and boats, and of mountains, castles and lakes, cafes and churches, towns and cities in Denmark, Germany, Holland, Italy, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria and Norway - colourfully evoke a bygone era in this beautiful diary for 2005. Each week has a full-page colour illustration and the diary includes national and religious holidays and astronomical information. ... Read more

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The National Railway Museum Diary 2010 features nostalgic images from the golden age of foreign travel. Cruises to the West Indies, jaunts across the Channel to the continent, the first commercial air flights - the colour posters and black-and-white images conjure up the nostalgia of holidays taken in days gone by. The emphasis is on travel beyond the British Isles - to the far flung corners of the British Empire. The National Railway Museum Diary 2010 includes all the major national and international holidays and is illustrated throughout. ... Read more

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ISSN 0148-8031. Proceeding of the 1997 Conference held in Staunton, VA. "On the Road Again: Mobility, Memory and Museums" was the theme of the meeting. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Industrial Engineer, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2007. The length of the article is 546 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Passage to a museum near you: fine art tests logistics.(Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University)
Author: Candi S. Cross
Publication: Industrial Engineer (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 39Issue: 8Page: 34(2)

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