Eastern Air Lines: A History, 1926-1991 (Paperback)

from mattries37315

The history of Eastern Air Lines is one of innovation and enterprise as well as one of how bad decisions are hard to overcome, especially when compounded. In relating the history of one of the major commercial airlines of the last century, David Lee Russell also told the history of commercial avi...

from varielle

I've known several former Eastern Air Lines employees who, after all these years, still sigh and reminisce about it fondly. Eastern allowed them to travel the world and they never got over their wonderful experiences and their grief over Eastern's demise. This is a well researched history of the ...

from PJNeal

Russell has created a really remarkable history of Eastern Air Lines - an airline that many people today don't know much (if anything) about, but which played a significant role in the birth and early decades of flight in America. This is clearly a labor of love for the author - it's remarkably d...

from reenactorman

McFarland books are often hit or miss, and in either category they carry a substantial price tag. David Russell's history of Eastern Air Lines unfortunately falls into more of the "miss" category, but that is due more to subpar editing by the publisher than anything else. The author does an excel...

from gazeebo88

I got this book out purely of curiosity but I have to say I did kind of enjoy reading it. Quite interesting read, however the book I got still had a lot of editing errors.