Dick & Patterson. This volume presents the dramatic, world-shrinking advances in commercial airliners, which have grown from frail biplanes to huge Jumbo jets; private aircraft, ultralights, sailplanes, hang gliders and parasails; lighter-than-air flight; rotary wings; and the challenges of research and development, as designs progress from sketchpad to computers, designers, builders and test pilots. 288 pages, 400 color and B&W photographs, 9¼"x 11¼", hardcover