The Smithsonian Book of Flight

The Story

The best-selling author of THE WILD BLUE & former director of the National Air & Space Museum presents an enthralling, authoritative chronicle - breathtakingly illustrated - of the entire history of flight. Undertaken in collaboration with the Smithsonian Books & the National Air & Space Museum, this stunning epic comprises the most beautiful collection of flight images ever published in a single volume. Boyne's masterfully written work recounts the amazing saga of aircraft - & the men & women who developed & flew them - from the infancy of flight to today's high-performance jet aircraft. Hundreds of spectacular photographs & drawings - many specially commissioned by the National Air & Space Museum, the world's most popular museum - provide an unmatched perspective on the astonishingly rapid evolution of aircraft & aerospace technology - all within our own century. This dramatic presentation of the history of flight is the aviation book of the eighties! Walter Boyne is the author of five books, including the best selling Leading Edge, & hundreds of articles on AVIATION.