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A brief history of flight : from balloons to Mach 3 and beyond

Author: T A Heppenheimer
Publisher: New York : Wiley, ©2001.
Edition/Format: Book : eBook : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: T A Heppenheimer
ISBN: 0471346373 9780471346371
OCLC Number: 43555403
Description: x, 454 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Beginnings -- Beautiful balloms -- Airplanes of the mind -- Problem of control -- Zeppelins -- Red baron -- Exuberance -- Vision of air power -- Lindbergh -- Ships in the sky -- Night and fog -- Donal Douglas and his airliners -- War -- Battle of britain -- Yamamoto flights at sea -- The war is over -- General Curtis LeMay -- Germans invent the jet -- Blue skies -- Howard Hughes -- Jack Northrop -- Church Yeager -- Quiet rocket man -- Clarence "Kelly" Johnson -- Maturity -- Launching the commercial jet age -- Room at the bottom -- King lear -- Voyager -- Keepers of the flame.
Responsibility: T.A. Heppenheimer.
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