Author: Bill Yenne
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, park, national, glacier
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-05-22
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738530115
ISBN-13: 9780738530116

Glacier National Park is a majestic million acres of towering mountains, ancient glaciers, and amazing biodiversity. Located astride both the Continental Divide and Hudson Bay Divide, Glacier contains Triple Divide Peak, the only point in North America from which the waters drain into three oceans. The land that George Bird Grinnell called the “Crown of the Continent” and that John Muir described as “the best care-killing scenery on the continent” has beendelighting visitors since well before it was set aside as a park in 1910. Through the years, countless people have come to Glacier to hi

Author: Bill Yenne
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press
Keywords: amp, francisco, san
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2002-05-06
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1571451560
ISBN-13: 9781571451569

The natives call it simply "the City." This is the story of the changing face of San Francisco, and how it has become one of the most picturesque cities in the world. Seventy modern color photographs are compared side-by-side with seventy archival photographs from the 1850s to the 1950s. While focusing on famous vistas and familiar landmarks, it also explores well-known neighborhoods. The Then and Now series includes: New York, Washington, Boston, and San Francisco.

Author: Bill Yenne
Publisher: Zenith Press
Keywords: war, world, factory, aircraft, american
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-10-15
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0760323003
ISBN-13: 9780760323007

Few, if any, industrial phenomena have been as dramatic as the United States mid-20th-century shift from peacetime manufacturing to wartime production. While the years 1939 to 1945 saw explosive growth in the manufacture of every type of armament imaginable, none was more emblematic of the industrial climate than the proliferation of aircraft factories. Zeroing in on the crux of the American military-industrial complex at a critical moment, this volume documents the production of legendary fighters and bombers by companies like Boeing, North American, Curtiss, Consolidated, Douglas, Grumman, a

Author: Bill Yenne
Publisher: Zenith Press
Keywords: company, boeing, story
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-10-17
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 076032333X
ISBN-13: 9780760323335

In the early years of the 20th century William Edward Boeing summed up his new company’s mission: "To let no new improvement in flying and flying equipment pass us by." And sure enough, in the century since, nothing and no one has outflown Boeing. The Story of the Boeing Company, plane-maker to the world, unfolds on a fittingly grand scale in this book that is at once the history of one company and the story of an industry. Aviation author Bill Yenne follows Boeing from its modest beginnings in 1916 as Pacific Aero Products, with a single two-seater floatplane, to its present lofty position

Author: Bill Yenne
Publisher: Last Gasp
Keywords: fifties, home, going
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2005-11-30
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0867196432
ISBN-13: 9780867196436

With the postwar economic boom, a vast middle class emerged. Suburbs exploded across the country, and the new industrial complex cranked out cars, appliances, and home furnishings in record numbers. Here is an idealized neighborhood of the period, with schools, roads, and commuter trains to the homes, kitchens, and backyards — all drawn from the fantasy worlds created by advertising. Color photos and illustrations are featured in this presentation of the ideal of 1950s suburban living. From houses to cars, to individual rooms and lawns, an entire industry was created to instruct a newlycreat

Author: Bill Yenne
Publisher: Zenith Press
Keywords: colortech, motorbooks, building, boeing, inside
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2002-11-14
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0760312516
ISBN-13: 9780760312513

Take Boeing’s computer-designed 777 on a test flight that reveals the systems and components at the heart of this technological marvel. The world’s largest aircraft manufacturing plant throws open its doors to reveal how the 777 is assembled and flight tested. Inside Boeing is a fascinating, inside look at the design and assembly process, the computer networks, and the millions of parts required to launch this incredible bird skyward. In the Color Tech Series - Bill Yenne also wrote Classic American Airliners O-7603-0913-2.

Author: Bill Yenne
Publisher: Specialty Pr Pub & Wholesalers
Keywords: hustler, dart, sea, deltas, convair
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2009-08-15
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 158007118X
ISBN-13: 9781580071185

Convair Deltas: From SeaDart to Hustler tells the compelling story of America’s aerospace industry in its heyday, when manufacturers boldly took the initiative to explore futuristic new designs by actually building and test flying airplanes to determine how well they would work, if at all. Convair led the way in this area with America’s only complete family of delta-wing aircraft that included America’s first delta-wing jet, the one-of-a-kind XF-92 experimental prototype, the XF2Y-1 jet-powered seaplane, the XFY-1 Pogo turboprop vertical takeoff and landing fighter, the F-102