Flight

Riccardo Niccoli, journalist, writer, photographer, and one of Italy’s foremost aviation historians, has published articles and photographs in specialised press since 1982. A graduate in Political Science, he collaborates as a freelancer with various magazines and publishers across Europe and the United States, and has authored numerous books and other works in the field of aviation.

• Preface 61 The Earliest Endeavors 82 Dirigibles 223 Heavier-than-Air Machines 364 The First World War 485 The Birth of Commercial Aviation 626 Seaplanes and Marathon Flights 787 The Second World War: the Allies 988 The Second World War: the Axis 1209 The First Jets and the Korean War 13410 The Era of the Great Transport Aircraft 14211 The Great Fighters of the Fifties 14812 The Cold War 15613 Helicopters 16614 Trainers 18815 General Aviation 20816 Military Transports 22017 European Fighters 23018 Vietnam 23819 The Arab-Israeli Wars 24820 Great Airliners 25421 Fighters of the Seventies 26222 The Third Level 27823 The Gulf, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Libya:the Last Wars 28624 Airbus and Boeing 30225 Unmanned Aircraft 30826 Today and Tomorrow 31827 The Space Shuttle and beyond 330Bibliography and Index 334