An absolutely beautifully done, high quality, hard covered, coffee table type book by photographer Paul Bowen, that you will be proud to share and display, and will never put down.  These are some of the most incredible aviation photographs you will ever see.  Every page is a full cover masterpiece depicting the energy and awe that has inspired each of us into the world of aviation.

Volume 1 is heavy on business type jets with additional sections on sport planes and helicopters.  Volume 2 also includes many pages of light jet and commercial aircraft but then adds large sections on warbirds (especially P-51s), sportplanes, and a section entitled "The pilot's point of view".

Personally, if I could just have one, I'd choose volume 1.    But it would be a hard decision.  Every page in each is absolutely stunning.  Get yourself one or both of these books.  It's what you want for Christmas.

From the preface:
.....Paul Bowen shoots so often from the tail-gunner's position of a World War II B-25, that shots like the one on Air to Air's cover have become a signature specialty.   He sits on the edge, thousands of feet up, strapped in and sighting through a lens.   His headset and microphone connect him to the B-25's pilot as the pilot relays direction to the crew of the airplane being photographed.  As the target plane gets closer, Paul directs them with hand signals.....