Synopses & Reviews
This is perhaps the finest collection of cockpit photographs in existence. The Museum (NASM) holds the world's premier collection of historic aircraft, but visitors to the museum must maintain a respectful distance. In At the Controls, NASM photographers Eric Long and Mark Avino use creative lighting techniques and an extremely wide-angle lens mounted on a short-bodied, large-format architectural camera to duplicate the sensation of actually being at the controls inside the cockpit of 45 legendary aircraft. The reader experiences a pilot's-eye view of the cockpit.
Among the 45 featured aircraft are these history-making planes:
- Wright Brothers 1903 Flyer
- Bl?riot Type XI
- Fokker D.VII
- Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis
- Supermarine Spitfire Mk.VII
- Focke-Wulf Fw 190F-8
- Ilyushin IL-2 Shturmovik
- Messerschmitt Me 262
- Boeing B-29 Enola Gay
- Sikorsky UH-34D Seahorse
- Project Apollo Lunar Module
- Space Shuttle Columbia