FLIGHT – A POSTER BOOK *** LARGE SIZE 32 x 24 cm ***

Since Lindbergh’s heyday, the advances in aeronautics have been a blur of expanding technology and conception. The dizzying rate of this progress has been witnessed in the development of rocket-powered flight – a single decade spanning the first manned rocket flight and the first manned landing on the moon. In this profusely illustrated book, David Owen traces the history of aviation, from theory to powered flight; from its conception in China with the kite to present-day supersonic flight. He demonstrates how the two World Wars altered the concept of flight: people stopped regarding it as a purely recreational indulgence and began to realize that aircraft had potential as reconnaissance instruments, as military weapons and, finally, as a means of commercial travel. 

Not only is this a record of the machines, however. It is also a chronicle of the men behind them, whose names have been inextricably linked with aviation history – the Wright brothers, Lindbergh, Santo Dumont, the Voisin brothers and the great aviation entrepreneurs such as Felix Nadar, who pioneered aerial photography and air mail delivery. 

The history of flight recorded in this book is indeed a testament to individual initiative and the power of man’s imagination in the fulfilment of his ambitions. 

This witty and nostalgic collection of paintings, photographs and posters – covering everything from Icarus to the Wright brothers, from Lindbergh’s solo crossing of the Atlantic to the NASA moon landing – will delight aviation buffs, art lovers, and high-fliers everywhere. Included are posters, paintings, drawings and photographs, many of which have never been published before, depicting centuries of real and fanciful travel through the air.