This nostalgic trip around the world captures propliners in their heyday and the early jetliners entering service. An extensive text details the aircraft and airline, and sensational color photographs capture the wonderful variety of airliners in service at that time.
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A Fine Tribute to the Dawn of the Jet Age,
By Daniel L. Berek (Flanders, NJ, United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Vintage Glory: Airline Colour Schemes of the '50s and '60s (Paperback)
Take a stroll down memory lane to the dawn of the jet age, an exciting time for commercial aviation enthusiasts. Presented are first-generation jets, turboprops, and propliners in the colorful schemes of the 1950s and 1960s. The selection includes many unusual types, such as the one-and-only TWA Fairchild C-82 Packet, Canadair C-4 Argonaut, Avro York, ATL-98 Carvair, and Curtiss C-46. Seeing propliners and jets side by side presents a very interesting contrast. Because this was the height of the Cold War, Soviet types were seldom photographed in the West; as a result, they are not well represented in this collection. You will find an Aeroflot Tu-104 and LOT Ilyushin Il-18, however. Most of the photos are of high quality, the lack of fading betraying their age. Noteworthy are several very rare photos depict airliners that existed in a particular livery for only a few months. Mr. Balch also deserves praise for his informative descriptions of each photograph, detailing where the picture was taken, previous owners of the aircraft, and the plane's ultimate fate. Airline Nostalgia offers a quality collection of interesting illustrations any airliner enthusiast is likely to look at again and again
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This review is from: Vintage Glory: Airline Colour Schemes of the '50s and '60s (Paperback)
Great big pictures - all in color - of Viscounts, Electras, DC6's,caravelles, bac 111, Boeing 707, stratocruiser and many more pictures of those long gone aircrafts. Most pictures are on airports tarmac and seems taken last week. An amazing preservation work. Don't miss it.
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This review is from: Vintage Glory: Airline Colour Schemes of the '50s and '60s (Paperback)
The magazine had exactly the pictures that I was looking for. The merchandise was as represented and I was pleased with the transaction.
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