The first few pages of each issue (usually 4 or 5) were dedicated to the History of Aviation which also covered Commercial Aviation and current (as in early 1980s) air power (Air Power Today).
The History of Aviation began in issue 1 with a 7 part series on the Vietnam War. Most of the History of Aviation was taken up with warfare especially World War II starting with the Blitzkrieg in issue 8 and ending with defeat of Japan in issue 156. The coverage of World War 2 also included surveys of different combat roles and aircraft types.
World War I was also covered as was the Korean War, Spanish Civil War, Post-WW2 Colonial conflicts and the Arab-Israeli Wars. In later issues the Cold War was covered in depth.
Air Power Today covered the current (1980s) military situation with surveys of different types of military aircraft and combat roles and regional surveys of airpower around the world.
The history of Commercial Aviation was also covered in a multi-part series starting with the earliest commercial air flights and ending with general aviation and microlights near the very end of the Encyclopedia's run.
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Famous quotes containing the words history of and/or history:
“We know only a single science, the science of history. One can look at history from two sides and divide it into the history of nature and the history of men. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“We said that the history of mankind depicts man; in the same way one can maintain that the history of science is science itself.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)