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    Jan 21, 2021 4 minutes

    Planes

    Planesexplores the breadth of aviation theory

    FROM THE WRIGHT BROTHERS TO THE SUPERSONIC

    ■ Author: Jan Van Der Veken

    ■ Publisher: Prestel Publishing

    ■ Price: £15.99 / $19.95

    ■ Release: 4 March

    Belgian author Jan Van Der Veken is both a pilot and an award-winning newspaper and magazine illustrator, who has put his two passions together to create Planes: an illustrated history of human flight with a strong science angle. It’s as slick and beautiful as a Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit.

    Charting the history of flight from the Wright brothers to the age of supersonic jets, with each turn of the page the reader

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