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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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