Osprey civil aircraft
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This is a visual tour of the jet carriers of the 60s and 70s still in service around the world, many of them due for permanent grounding due to new noise regulations. It includes Boeing 707s, Douglas DC-8s, Caravelles, Convair CV-990 Coronadoes and Tupolev Tu-134s, classic models once found in every major airport but now used only by third division carriers in Africa, South America and Eastern Europe.
A combination of cheap fares, more economic designs and a greater choice of carriers has seen jet travel become a regular feature in the lives of most Americans, and the commercial jet has gone from strength to strength as more and more travellers take to the air. This book features the major carriers and their aircraft as well as some of the smaller regional outfits and illustrates most of their schemes in photographs.