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Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity through the First World War
Richard P. Hallion
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| #2094500 in Books | 2003-05-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.20 x1.42 x9.90l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 531 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Well written, intriguing and useful|By Reader|Doing research on the beginning of aviation, I found this book exceptionally useful. Even though I focused on the 18th and 19th century, I was very happy to discover rare facts and anecdotes, like Alexander the Great making his soldiers use winklike scarves to defeat his adversary. Everything from Antiquity through the First World W|From Publishers Weekly|Flight author and former Air Force Historian Hallion has produced an expertly written single-volume history of flight, from Icarus and Daedalus to England's twin-engine "Bloody Paralyser" of WWI, that has the potential to become the standa
The invention of flight represents the culmination of centuries of thought and desire. Kites and rockets sparked our collective imagination. Then the balloon gave humanity its first experience aloft, though at the mercy of the winds. The steerable airship that followed had more practicality, yet a number of insurmountable limitations. But the airplane truly launched the Aerial Age, and its subsequent impact--from the vantage of a century after the Wright Brother's histor...
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