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Flying Colours: Airline Colour Schemes of the 1990s

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This is John Morton's second book published by Airlife in the U.K. The book continues the standard set by his previous work, Faded Glory, and shows the colorful planes of the world in the skies today. Morton starts the tour in Central and South America. Many flag and regional operators are shown including Mexicana, TACA, and LADECO. The portriats of the LACSA A320 and Ecuatoriana A310 are superb! Crossing the Atlantic, Morton stops in Europe and concentrates on showing the many charter airlines in operation. These include Dan-Air, LTU, Sterling, and Maersk. Great photos taken from the observation deck at Frankfurt are depicted here. Going "down under" to Australia, Morton captures QANTAS and Ansett airliners at Sydney. Also shown a rare photos of Oceanic airlines; including the 737s of Solomons and Air N'auru. Morton stops next in Africa and South Asia. Here he brings us photos of Air-India 747s and the DC-10s of Ghana Airways and Bangladesh Airlines. Middle East carriers are also shown. Morton moves on to the Far East and shows us new airlines that have formed in the economic boom of the region. Eva Air and Asiana 767s, Thai A300s, and others are shown including airlines from China such as China Eastern. Morton touches down in North America and brings us excellent pictures from America and Canada. Close up shots are of planes are included; the American 767 and Delta 757 are nice. Cargo and charter airlines are included. Fantastic shots from Miami include the Florida West 707 and the Rich International DC-8. The Hawaiian Air DC-8 shot in Australia is spectacular with the sun and thunderstorms. A nice sunset shot of a Northwest 727 on New Year's eve closes the book. Flying Colours is an five star quality book. All the photos are clear and almost all were taken on bright sunny days. Morton's work is outstanding and will be a good reference book for airline color schemes for years to come. Make room on the bookshelf!

This was the first morton book I read, it got me in to his writing/phtography. His writing about his pictures is much better than any published aircraft photographer I know of. This is a very good book to learn something you didn't know before.