Cockpit: An Illustrated History of World War II Aircraft Interiors

Pay with

About Cockpit: An Illustrated History Of World War II

Product Description While there is no shortage of books on Second World War fighter aircraft, Cockpit is the first book to take us inside so many of the most revered and feared fighters and bombers of the war, including rare shots of Japanese and German aircraft interiors. Built during the crisis of war, the cockpits and aircraft featured in this book were marvels of technology and ingenuity. A candid "pilot's perspective" accompanies the story of each plane. Cockpit offers an unprecedented inside view of these extraordinary airplanes and the men who flew them. Review As you thumb through this book, you'll swear you can smell oil and av-gas. ( Air and Space Smithsonian) The cockpit photographs are superb ... you can not only read every tiny placard, but see where a mechanic's screwdriver slipped in while tightening up an access panel. ( Pilot) The writer [Donald Nijboer] and photographer Dan Patterson have triumphed in recording the "offices" of 37 front-line aircraft of World War II. ( Air Pictorial) About the Author Donald Nijboer is a copywriter, screenwriter and longtime aviation enthusiast. He has worked for radio stations and advertising agencies in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto. He currently teaches Radio Copywriting at Humber College in Toronto. A member of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, he has attended many of the world's major air shows and toured aviation museums in England, the United States and Canada. Since 1988 pilot-photographer Dan Patterson has published ten books. His Cockpit: An Illustrated History of World War II Aircraft Interiors, with Donald Nijboer, published in 1998 by Boston Mills Press has been translated into German and Japanese.