Soviet Transport Aircraft since 1945
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1968. Octavo, blue cloth, spine embossed with gilt lettering, ix, 318 pp., frontispiece, illustrated with black-and-white photographs and diagrams throughout, one map and six appendices included. Foxing on endpapers, foxing on inside and outside of dust-jacket, spine of dust-jacket faded; otherwise a very good copy. First edition. A detailed account of the 40 types of Soviet transport aeroplanes and helicopters produced since the end of the Second World War to 1967. Stroud's text covers the design, history, layout, structural characteristics and service life of each, accompanied by photographs and three-view drawings. Particularly detailed are the descriptions of the jet and propeller-turbine aircraft that Aeroflot employed in the late 1950s. Item #4624
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