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• Author(s): Key Publishing • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Aviation - GeneralIn the latter half of World War Two, the War Cabinet sanctioned the formation of a committee to consider a post-war world of ai...

• Author(s): Key Publishing • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Aviation - CommercialIn 1916, William Boeing officially incorporated his new aircraft business. He successfully sold aircraft to the United State...

• Author(s): Key Publishing • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpacePrompted by a request from Howard Hughes (and TWA) in 1939, Lockheed's team broke the mold of early airliner desig...

• Author(s): Key Publishing • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Aviation - CommercialIt is fair to say that the DC-3 was the very first true airliner, and it paved the way for the hundreds of increasingly adva...

• Author(s): Key Publishing • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceFounded in 1910, A. V. Roe and Company Limited built its first military aircraft two years later. By 1914, the com...

• Author(s): Key Publishing • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceCurtiss, as a company, contributed a great deal in establishing the US aircraft industry firmly on the world stage...

• Author(s): Key Publishing • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Aviation - CommercialThe desire for airliners that could fly faster and higher than all that had gone before them was ingrained into the commerci...

• Author(s): Key Publishing • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Aviation - CommercialIn January 1955, an industry-wide call from American Airlines for a new aircraft resulted in Lockheed's newest creation - th...