Aviation: From Our Earliest Attempts at Flight to Tomorrow's Advanced Designs (Smithsonian Guides)
Häftad bok. Macmillan General Reference, USA. 1995. 256 s. Häftad. 22x16cm. 505 gram.
Mycket gott skick. Språk: Engelska. Rikt illustrerad i färg och svartvitt. With spectacular photographs and a fast-paced text, Aviation provides a soaring look at the feats of imagination and engineering that have enabled humans to fly. Broad in scope and rich in anecdote, this exciting volume recounts the vision of early theorists and first attempts at piloted flight, traces the fierce international competition to dominate the skies, and profiles daring risk-takers like Orville and Wilbur Wright, Charles Lindbergh, Chuck Yeager, and Amelia Earhart. But the real stars of Aviation are the amazing flying machines themselves, from balloons and biplanes to The Spirit of St. Louis and the Concorde jet, taking us ever higher andfaster in our quest to fly.
