Flyers!
The Spirit of Kitty Hawk
Rendall, Ivan
Aviation is not essentially about aeroplanes but about the men who fly them. Pioneers like Orville and Wilbur Wright, Louis Bleriot, 'Chuck' Yeager and John Young have changed the way we live and perceive the worid. Their spirit and determination have led us to the conquest of space but the aircraft they developed have added a new and dreadful dimension to warfare. Flyers! is afascinating history of aviation, which concentrates on pilots rather than the machines. In this book we follow the careers of Samuel F. Cody, the illiterate cowboy who invented the British Army's powered aircraft, and A. V. Roe, who built his aeroplane under a railway arch and then went on to found the great Avro aviation Company. We share the experiences of McCudden and Richthofen, two of the glamorous tacticians of aerial combat, and of Charles Lindbergh, transatlantic soloist and tireless promoter of aviation. From the heroes and eccentrics who flourished before the First World War to the 'right stuff ofthe modern test pilots and spacemen, this is an epic story of the conquest of the air.
Softcover
160 Seiten / pages
photos
very good condition
London - 1985 - Ariel Books
Art.Nr. 14706
