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Airliners at LAX: Los Angeles International Airport 1956-1976

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As a flight attendant, this book brought back great memories of my first years flying in and out of LAX. A book for everyone to have

I am a child of the seventies. I also am a great fan of commercial aviation, and have travelled a lot. Therefore, appreciating the beauty of airplanes has become a great passion of mine. However, I know little about the great propeller aircraft before the age of jets. This book allowed me to learn about some of the wonderful planes of the fifties and sixties that were eventually replaced by jets. And all this was done in the language of my soul, pictures. I relate much better to pictures than words when trying to capture the beauty of any domain where one's eyes dominate (such as is the case with airlplanes). I urge anyone who is a passionate airplane fan like myself, and who would like to learn a little about pre-jet aviation to buy this book.

what a glorious showcasing of the world's PREMIER plane-spotting airport! Although some fabulous spotting can be had today, AIRLINERS AT LAX recalls the halcyon, diverse days when so many unique paint schemes could be seen as a matter of daily standard at LAX! Informative, descriptive, and simply delightful--a trip back into time!

Congratulations to Robert Archer on producing this magnificent book, a must for all propliner fans.

The photographs are simply superb and vividly evoke the lost era of the propliners, as well as going on through the sixties, showing the steady advance of jets and eventual disappearance of the propliners. I even liked the photos of the jets!