World Encyclopedia of Aircraft Manufacturers: From the Pioneers to the Present Day (2nd edition)

For an industry that has yet to complete 100 years of existence, aircraft manufacturing has had an extraordinarily complex history, not to mention its equally extraordinary impact on the world throughout the last century. It has always been a high‐risk enterprise, in several senses. Add to that risk shifting historical, political and economic circumstances, together with seemingly innumerable larger‐than‐life individuals who seemed to be drawn to aviation like moths to a flame, and you have a heady brew at once fascinating and dauntingly complex. To treat such a mixture adequately a researcher and author needs either a wealth of knowledge...