Fighting Cockpits Book

Climb inside the cockpits of the world’s most famous military aircraft. Now aviation enthusiasts can get a sense of the views that greeted combat pilots in WWI, WWII, Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam and the present. Fighting Cockpits features large-format scenes detailing the controls and instrumentation of 50 legendary combat aircraft. From the cloth-covered, wood-framed biplanes of WWI to today’s supersonic fly-by-wire fighters, Dan Patterson’s color photographs take readers behind the sticks of airplanes that have patrolled the skies in war and peace. Hardbound, B&W/Color, 224 pages.