Fly now! : a colorful story of flight from hot air balloon to the 777 "Worldliner" : the poster collection of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
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Fly now! : a colorful story of flight from hot air balloon to the 777 "Worldliner" : the poster collection of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
National Geographic, c2007
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The posters—most of them never before published—feature barnstormers, gliders, and flying boats; the earliest passenger flights, the first luxury-liners, mail carriers, jets, and much more. Spanning a century and a half, they combine the popular art and the commerce of their eras, with both explored in the entertaining, informative text by a longstanding National Air and Space Museum curator. From 19th-century circus impresarios offering rides in gaudy hot-air balloons to the sleek 21st-century airliners, they offer a fascinating illustrated history of flight as it evolved from an exotic realm inhabited only by visionaries and daredevils into our modern world of speedy jets and frequent flyers—no longer extraordinary, perhaps, but still echoing with the exhilarating thrill and glamorous excitement captured here.
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