Gordon Swanborough Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Listed alphabetically by manufacturer's name, this aviation history features 1700 aircraft. Every fighter that has ever been designed, built and flown is included, with full technical details and a photograph, colour profiles, detailed three-view drawings and cutaway artworks.

More than 100 of the world's most potent fighter aircraft are depicted in superbly detailed cutaway drawings: from the canvas-and-string contraptions of World War I to the amazing stealth fighters that are taking air combat into the 21st century. Accompanied by fascinating technical and developmental descriptions, each drawing reveals and clearly identifies the aircraft's airframe structures, engines, fuel tanks, avionics and weaponry, and is complemented by a three-view drawing and action photograph.

Flying colors surveys, by means of profile drawings of military aircraft, many of htese camouflage and antii-camouflage schemes that have been applied over the past 65 years.