A Brief History of Flight
From Balloons to Mach 3 and Beyond
Heppenheimer, T.A.
First Edition. First Printing.
Fascinating anecdotes and lively first-person accounts animate T. A. Heppenheimer's spellbinding work, A Brief History of Flight. Through Heppenheimer's magical story-telling, readers will encounter the colorful characters - the Inventars, entrepreneurs, scientists, businessmen, pilots, and air warriors - who made flight the stuff of our dreams. You'll read rare portraits of Charles Lindbergh, Chuck Yeager, and Howard Hughes, as well as such luminaries as:
• Sir George Cayley, the first inventor of the airplane
• William Bollay, the "quiet rocket research man"
• Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, the nation's leading aircraft designer
• Planebuilders Donald Douglas, William Allen, and Jack Northrop
• Inventars William Lear and Burt and Richard Rutan
A Brief History of Flight reenacts the events that led to our greatest developments in commercial and military aviation. Witness the race between Europe, Japan, and the United States for flight supremacy. You'll learn how Wilbur and Orville Wright transferred their transportation savvy from bicycles to airplanes, and see the rise - and fall - of the zeppelin, one of the most romantic inventions of the twentieth Century. You'll be there at the Battle of Midway and the Battle of Britain, and in the skies over Germany. You'll watch the circumstances unfold that led to the tragic atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Heppenheimer masterfully explains the economic, military, and social forces that led to each invention's creation or demise. You'll understand the role the stock market played, and continues to play, in airline mergers... witness the birth of United Airlines, American Airlines, and TWA... and glimpse aviation's future in the development of the visionary Joint Strike Fighter, the F-22, and the Airbus A-3XX.
Hardcover with dust jacket
454 Seiten / pages
photos
very good condition
New York - Brisbane - Singapore - Toronto - 2001 - John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Art.Nr. 14381
