The Journal of Transport History, September 1st, 2005
David Pascoe, Aircraft, Reaktion Books, London (2003), 240 pp., £14.95.
Anyone who enjoyed Airspaces, David Pascoe's book on airports (reviewed in the March 2004 issue), will find something of value in this companion volume on aircraft. Pascoe, who happily borrows the title from Le Corbusier's celebrated 1935 opus, brings an erudite, engaging and occasionally exasperating approach to the history of military and commercial aviation. Laden with illustrations of aircraft and paintings of aircraft (seventeen of which are in colour), Aircraft at once delights and disturbs with its allusions and c...
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