Lockheed Constellation

As usual with Histoire & Collections mongraphs, this is outstanding volume is well worth its Anmazon price. Achival photos and other time-period items justify this book as a nostalgic treasure. At the same time, the details of the mechanics of the parts of the aircraft, its history in detail and the inclusive, myriad of stunning side profiles, excellently and artistically painted, showing virtually evey model ever flown are almost without equal in any single-type aircraft volume. Don't miss this book if you like classic, commercial/military aircraft and one of the most beautful and functional planes of yesteryear. It's a gem!

Could not put the book down once I received it. Having worked on some of those models in the military, it`s a pretty good accounting of the Connie. Photos are superb, the prints are great in their detail. Nice read.

If you like Connie's or even Propliners in general buy this book. It's a wonderful compilation of facts, photos and artwork. Lots of detail on military versions of the Connie. The only Connie fact in the book that I found questionable was the claim that a 1649 Starliner had done pylon racing. Clay Lacy raced a DC 7 but I don't recall any Connies in races. Buy this book. You will not be disappointed.Mark

The Connie is a classic airliner with wonderful lines. This book is an exhaustive overview of the many civilian and military variants. It features dozens of side illustrations depicting the various liveries. And it has a lot of great photographs. Unfortunately, the text has been badly translated from the French. You can generally understand it, but it takes a lot of work to read it. They really needed an editor to clean up the text. It's too bad, because without that flaw, this would be a wonderful book.

Very pleasant surprise. Well written with solid back ground for both military and civil Constellation airplane. Photography is very good and illustrates the history well.

I have many books about the Constellation, but none surpasses this book for picture quality and detail. There are many aircraft color schemes and markings for airliners and military aircraft along with detailed information about each Constellation series. It is filled with a huge number of crisp and clear black and white and color photographs, and best of all the entire printing is on glossy paper. Considering the picture variety and quality and the great amount of detailed information this is a must have for Connie fans.

This is an excellent book with many photographs, diagrams, and period advertisements. i would highly recommend purchasing this book for your collection.

Very nice and complete book, if you like the old propliners, you will for sure love this book.

It's all been said really. Marvellous photos, art quality paper and many unseen (by me anyway) photos of this wonderful aircraft. Yes I am biased but even someone who doesn't get dewey eyed over the Constellation would appreciate the artwork in this publication. The side profiles of the type in many of the varied colour schemes displayed on this airliner were also a strong selling point for me. It helped that the Amazon proce was the best I could fine anywhere for a new edition.