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America's Round-Engine Airliners

Craig Kodera and William Pearce

SKU: 85331
$18.78 $46.95

This book traces the technical evolution of every radial-engine powerplant used from the 1920s through the 1950s and also includes interesting and fact-filled sidebars that detail what it was like flying aboard each generation of these aircraft.

This book explains in detailed, well-illustrated, and easy-to-understand terms how these piston-powered engine airliners advanced rapidly.  The aircraft originated with fabric-covered fuselages with wooden wings and morphed into all-metal Ford Trimotors as the world's first true "modern airliner," the Douglas DC-3, long-range four-engine transoceanic flying boats.

Many magnificent aircraft bridged the gap from small single-engine airliners carrying six passengers in the 1920s to large long-range, four-engine landplanes carrying 60-to-80 passengers and linking all the world’s continents by air in the 1950s. This book not only traces the technical evolution of every radial-engine powerplant used over that time span but also includes interesting and fact-filled sidebars that detail what it was like flying aboard each generation of these aircraft. In 1948, the largest radial piston engine ever produced entered airline service, the mighty 3,500-hp 28-cylinder Pratt & Whitney R-4360; it is one of 12 different radial engines covered in-depth by the authors of this book.

America's Round-Engine Airliners
Specialty Press

America's Round-Engine Airliners

$18.78 $46.95

This book explains in detailed, well-illustrated, and easy-to-understand terms how these piston-powered engine airliners advanced rapidly.  The aircraft originated with fabric-covered fuselages with wooden wings and morphed into all-metal Ford Trimotors as the world's first true "modern airliner," the Douglas DC-3, long-range four-engine transoceanic flying boats.

Many magnificent aircraft bridged the gap from small single-engine airliners carrying six passengers in the 1920s to large long-range, four-engine landplanes carrying 60-to-80 passengers and linking all the world’s continents by air in the 1950s. This book not only traces the technical evolution of every radial-engine powerplant used over that time span but also includes interesting and fact-filled sidebars that detail what it was like flying aboard each generation of these aircraft. In 1948, the largest radial piston engine ever produced entered airline service, the mighty 3,500-hp 28-cylinder Pratt & Whitney R-4360; it is one of 12 different radial engines covered in-depth by the authors of this book.

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