Авиация / The Lore of Flight

Название: The Lore of Flight
Автор: John W.R. Taylor
Издательство: Crescent Books
Год: 1986
Страниц: 436
Язык: English
Формат: PDF OCR
Размер: 109 MB

As a new millenium approaches, the magic of flying has become as accepted as browned bread from a toaster. In fact, it seems aircraft only grab our attention when they fail to deliver their passengers safely. "The Lore of Flight" revisits the early designs of men consumed with the dream of leaving the ground: from generations of 'Bird Men' who tried (and died) to replicate feathered flyers; to two French paper-makers, Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier, who designed the first balloon to carry a man off the ground; to the most famous of aircraft pioneers, Wilbur and Orville Wright, and their wooden-frame biplane; to the designers of the jet-powered aircraft of today.