Modern aviation - one of the most hi-tech industries of industry of the XXI century. Not so a long ago the largest states of the world boasted producing of destroyers of fifthgeneration. Americans are proud of F - 22 and F - 35, but new Russian Т- 50 is the real threat to the transatlantic rivals, successfully combining in itself excellent flying internalss, unique facilities of finding out an opponent and stealthiness. Future of world aviation gives oneself up to the pilotless vehicles - they allow to execute manoeuvres with an overload exceeding physical possibilities of man, and also to increase duration and distance of flights.In this book information is collected about all basic models of modern service airplanes and helicopters, being in an armament at the armies of the world, and also about the newest developments of machines that will come into the world only in next decades.Also here told and about the predecessors of present aviation, participating in world wars and in "cold" opposition of the largest states giving the most powerful pushes in development of flying technique.The unusual standards of aircrafts that on the descriptions are described in a separate division, it is far been sizes or methods of application beyond the serial types of aerotechics. Usually they give way to oblivion or get in annals of history only as amusing paradoxes, but the ideas fixed in their basis can put beginning to the span-new type of shattering weapon.Edition is intended for the wide circle of aviation lovers.