Author: Heiner EmdePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Conquerors of the Air
Author: Heiner EmdeConquerors of the air [Meilensteine der Luftfahrt, engl.] The evolution of aircraft, 1903-1945
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Author: Heiner EmdeConquerors of the Air
Author: H. EmdeConquerors of the Air
Author: Harry Harper (Writer on Aeroplanes.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
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Conquerors of the Air
Author: Harry HarperPublisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 125
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To Conquer the Air
Author: James TobinPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780684856889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Based on extraordinary research in the rich archives of American aviation, and written by one of the nation's most gifted narrative historians, "To Conquer the Air" brings to life one of history's most exciting contests.
Conquerors of the Air ... Illustrated by J.E. McConnell
Author: Harry HARPER (Writer on Aeroplanes.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 125
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Conquerors of the Air ... Illustrated by J.E. McConnell
Author: Harry HarperConquerors of the Sky
Author: Joseph Lewis FrenchTo Conquer the Air
Author: James TobinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780786257225
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
So wrote a quiet young Ohioan in 1900, one in an ancient line of men who had wanted to fly -- men who wanted it passionately, fecklessly, hopelessly. But now, at the turn of the twentieth century, Wilbur Wright and a scattered handful of other adventurers conceived a conviction that the dream lay at last within reach, and in a headlong race across ten years and two continents, they competed to conquer the air. James Tobin, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography, has at last given this inspiring story its definitive telling. For years Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in utter obscurity, supported only by their exceptional family. Meanwhile, the world watched as the imperious Samuel Langley, armed with a rich contract from the U.S. War Department and all the resources of the Smithsonian Institution, sought to scale up his unmanned models to create the first manned flying machine. But while Langley became obsessed with flight as a problem of power, the Wrights grappled with it as a problem of balance. Thus their machines took two very different paths -- his toward oblivion, theirs toward the heavens.