Book Description
Carefully researched text, lavishly illustrated with over 250 photos, introduce early pioneers of flight: Otto Lilienthal, Samuel Langley, Octave Chanute, Louis Bleriot, the Wright Brothers, many other aviation pioneers.
Author : Joshua Stoff
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 35,42 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780486288369
Carefully researched text, lavishly illustrated with over 250 photos, introduce early pioneers of flight: Otto Lilienthal, Samuel Langley, Octave Chanute, Louis Bleriot, the Wright Brothers, many other aviation pioneers.
Author : Charles A. Lindbergh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 2003-12-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743237055
Lindbergh's own account of his historic transatlantic solo flight in 1927.
Author : Philip Jarrett
Publisher : Brassey's
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,21 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN :
This volume covers aviation from its earliest beginnings up to the outbreak of the First World War. It begins with the first theories and experiments in flight, including the attempts to fly by jumping from towers and the experiences of the lighter-than-air flight using balloons. It then analyses the experiments with kites and models in an attempt to understand the principles of aerodynamics. All this leads up to the first successful powered flights, culminating in the achievement of the Wright Brothers, whose flight at Kitty Hawk represented the first successful powered, sustained, and controlled flight. The remainder of the book covers the creation of an aeroplane industry putting aeroplanes to work, refining airframes and engines, adapting aeroplanes to fly from water, and understanding safety issues. The Series Editor Philip Jarrett, is a freelance author, editor and consultant specialiszing in aviation. He has been editor of Aeroplane, the Royal Aeronautical Society's newspaper, assistant editor of Aeroplane Monthly, and production editor of Flight International.
Author : Ray Holanda
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1467872016
Author : George C. Dade
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,10 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Over 300 rare photos, detailed captions recall exploits of Lindbergh, Curtiss, other pioneers, technological breakthroughs, endurance records, many aviation milestones. Introduction.
Author : Keith O'Brien
Publisher : Clarion Books
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 12,30 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1328618420
From NPR correspondent O' Brien comes this thrilling Young Readers' edition that celebrates a little-known slice of history wherein tenacious, trailblazing women braved all obstacles to achieve greatness in the skies. Photos.
Author : Josh Spoor
Publisher : Air World
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 2021-07-31
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1526786354
“This well-researched book evocatively conjures up the halcyon days of the swashbuckling amateurs who took to the skies in untested contraptions.” —Sussex Life magazine Shoreham airport, founded in 1910, is the oldest airport in the UK and the oldest purpose-built commercial airport in the world. Yet aviation began in Sussex far earlier, with balloonists making landfall at Kingsfold near Horsham in 1785. The Dawn of Aviation recounts, in vivid style, the way in which successive generations of men—and women—carved out within the ancient and delightful county of Sussex, a memorable place in the history of British aviation. From balloons of the last 18th century, which were later employed by the military in 1880, to kites that could life a man into the air, to unmanned gliders, to the powered, controlled flight made possible by internal combustion engines in 1908, when Alec Ogilvie flew a Wright Brothers biplane along the coast at Camber, this well-researched, engaging account will appeal to aviation enthusiasts and British history buffs alike. “An enjoyable and informative account of how flying originally came to the attractive corner of the UK.” —The Aviation Historian
Author : Octave Chanute
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 15,51 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Airplanes
ISBN :
Beskriver gennerelle principper for at flyve og fortæller om de første forsøg på at bygge en egentlig flyvemaskine før det lykkedes at gennemføre en bemandet, motordrevet flyvning
Author : William J. O'Dwyer
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN :
Author : Quentin Reynolds
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 1981-02-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0394847008
Young Orville and Wilbur Wright loved building things. From the fastest sled in town to the highest-flying kite, the Wright brothers’ creations were always a step ahead of everyone else’s. They grew up learning all about mechanics from fixing bicycles and studied math and physics. On December 17, 1903, Orville took off in the world’s first flying machine! The Wright airplane is one of the most amazing–and life-changing–