Lockheed Constellation - from Excalibur to Starliner, civilian and military variants (Sky Legends) - Tapa dura

Breffort, Dominique

 
9782915239621: Lockheed Constellation - from Excalibur to Starliner, civilian and military variants (Sky Legends)

Sinopsis

Designed just before World War Two after special requirements from the American tycoon Howard Hughes, the Lockheed Constellation is celebrated today as one of the finest flying machine ever built. As a civilian aircraft, it has been the first airliner able to cross the Atlantic Ocean non stop, but it also has had a respectable military career, thanks to its brilliant characteristics which allowed it to fulfill missions of electronic warfare and AWACS.

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Dominique Breffort, editor of the journal WingMasters, is a passionate historian with 30 years of knowledge on his subjects.

Since the seventies, André Jouineau has dedicated himself to studies in history and uniforms. Regular contributor to various magazines, he was appointed official painter of the Army in 1985 (title kept until 1994). Then, in the mid-nineties, he tackled computer illustration, which allowed "creating" a new uniformology genus.

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