At the Controls

At the Controls

At the Controls
Photographed by Eric F. Long and Mark A. Avino
Boston Mills Press ($24.95)

You'll probably never get the opportunity to sit inside the Mercury capsule that took astronaut John Glenn around the Earth, the X-1 in which test pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier or the single-engine Ryan that carried Charles Lindbergh across the Atlantic. But here's a book that brings you the next best thing—spectacular, razor-sharp, full-color, pilot's-eye-view portraits of the cockpits of 45 different aircraft, including the ones that took Glenn, Yeager and Lindbergh into aviation history. Aircraft fans will drool, certainly. But even the most casual reader will feel airborne by seeing what it looks like sitting At the Controls.

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