Delta: An Airline and Its Aircraft : The Illustrated History of a Major U.S. Airline and the People Who Made It

by R.E.G. Davies

DELTA, The Illustrated History of a Major US Airline and the People who Made It. This book covers the complex history of a great airline, together with those of the main companies that became part of the Delta Chicago & Southern, Northeast Airlines, and Western Air Lines. Their combined heritage is respected and preserved in Delta's archives and in its own museum at Atlanta. An Airline and its Aircraft is intended to complement these institutions in preserving the memories of an airline that has rarely benefitted from a gratuitous handout from any government agency, and whose path to success has been derived from the efforts of its own people, and from the judgement and initiative of its own leaders, all of whom rose from within its ranks.

Hardcover

First published December 1, 1990

Reviews

[George Salad-Bar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Noom delta airlines is so fun they fly around in there 727s from Atlanta to your mothers house and back it’s old but still cool I like delta airlines

[Ruppert Baird · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book follows Davies' tried and true method of short concise histories using a profusion of photos and incredible drawings.
A caveat: If you are searching for an exhaustive corporate or technical history, this is NOT it. But it is undoubtedly an excellent introduction.