The Great Encyclopedia. Aviation: Aircraft, Helicopters and Civilian Drones

This great encyclopedia presents the most famous and widely used examples of high-tech flying machines that have found application in peaceful life: passenger and cargo planes, special-purpose aircraft, as well as cargo and passenger helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles. Today,... the spheres of their civil application are extraordinarily diverse, which means that each of these machines has its own design features, which are described in detail here. In addition, the legends of global civil aviation can be seen in all their glory in striking illustrations and photographs, and the capabilities of these aircraft can be learned by getting acquainted with their flight technical characteristics. Neither heavyweights capable of carrying dozens of tons of cargo and hundreds of passengers and transporting them to any point on the planet in the shortest possible time, nor light and ultralight flying machines of various purposes will leave indifferent those who are drawn to the sky and who want to learn as much as possible about the machines capable of ascending there.