The 1959 Aircraft Year Book provides a chronology of the achievements of American aviation and the US aircraft industry during the past year. This 40th annual edition reports what future historians may well consider as the most dramatic year in aviation history from the standpoint of progress, experimentiation and development in widely diverse fields. It records effords of the aircraft manufaturing industry in all areas of military and civilian aviation - from multi-purpose helicopters to giant het transports, from Mach 2 bombers and powerful jet fighters to intercontinental ballistic missiles and man-made satellites. A publication of the Aircraft Industries Association.