Author: Barbara WalshPublisher: Anchor Books
ISBN: 9780954735937
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hubert Latham, 1883-1912
Author: Barbara WalshPublisher: Anchor Books
ISBN: 9780954735937
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Forgotten Aviator Hubert Latham
Author: Barbara WalshPublisher: Tempus
ISBN: 9780752443188
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A biography of Hubert Latham
Cross-Channel Aviation Pioneers
Author: Bruce Hales-DuttonPublisher: Air World
ISBN: 1526775603
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The stories of the daredevils who attempted to fly over the English Channel—a history filled with triumphs, tragedies, and colorful characters. On July 25, 1909, a dapper, mustachioed Frenchman flying a flimsy, diaphanous airplane changed the status of a great nation. “England is no longer an island,” declared the Daily Mail. Lord Northcliffe, the newspaper’s proprietor, had put up the £1,000 prize for the first flight of the English Channel by the pilot of an airplane. In securing the prize for one of aviation’s most celebrated firsts, Louis Blériot had beaten his Anglo-French rival Hubert Latham. Six days earlier, Latham had become the first airman to make a forced landing on water when the engine of his elegant Antoinette monoplane failed while he attempted the crossing. This book explores the triumphs, tragedies, and many milestones in cross-channel flight, beginning back in July 1785 when John-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries made the first crossing, by balloon. Other flyers quickly followed Blériot so that Pierre Prier made the first non-stop London-Paris flight in April 1911 and Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly the Channel a year later—though her historic accomplishment was overshadowed by the Titanic catastrophe. The book also charts other events in cross-Channel aviation such as the midair collision between the UK and France that led to a rudimentary system of air traffic control; the first cat to make the flight; the popular car ferry services of the 1950s and 1960s; and the coming of the jets—providing a colorful history of the era before the debut of the famed Channel Tunnel.
The Romance of Aeronautics
Author: Charles Cyril TurnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Eccentric France
Author: Piers LetcherPublisher: Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN: 9781841620688
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
So you think eccentric France means frogs' legs and pigs' trotters? Think again. Piers Letcher takes you to places where you can feast on forgotten vegetables, saddle up for national donkey day, or gorge yourself at the world tripe championships. He also reveals the truth behind France's most colorful characters, including Coco Chanel, Joan of Arc, Mata Hari and the Marquis de Sade. This latest addition to the Bradt eccentric series makes fascinating reading for those looking to discover the hidden side of France, as well as for armchair travelers who delight in the extraordinary. Feeling adventures? Try your hand at pig-squealing, or brave the Rhone Valley's Crocodile Farm; Romantic? Visit the Lovers' Wall in Montmartre, or Provence's hidden Paradise; Festive? Indulge yourself at the Palais du chocolat, or take a Champagne cure; Or just plain curious? Check out the country's most unusual towns, gardens, hotels and restaurants.
Aircraft
Author: The Aviator's Companion
Author: Dick FarmanA Hunger Artist and Other Stories
Author: Franz KafkaPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199600929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
A unique anthology of Kafka's stories and other short pieces by prize-winning translator Joyce Crick, with invaluable introduction,notes, and other editorial material by Kafka scholar Ritchie Robertson.
The Propeller under the Bed
Author: Eileen A. BjorkmanPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295741457
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
On July 25, 2010, Arnold Ebneter flew across the country in a plane he designed and built himself, setting an aviation world record for aircraft of its class. He was eighty-two at the time and the flight represented the culmination of a dream he’d cultivated since his childhood in the 1930s. Eileen Bjorkman — herself a pilot and aeronautical engineer — frames her father’s journey from teenage airplane enthusiast to Air Force pilot and Boeing engineer in the context of the rise, near extermination, and ongoing interest in homebuilt aircraft in the United States. She gives us a glimpse into life growing up in a “flying family” with two pilots for parents, a family plane named Charlie, and quite literally, a propeller under her parents’ bed. From early airplane designs serialized in magazines to the annual Oshkosh Fly-in where you can see experimental aircraft on display, Bjorkman offers a personal take on the history of building something in your garage that you can actually (and legally) fly as well as how the homebuilt aircraft movement has contributed to aviation and innovation in America. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8PvowEMkmQ
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