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Early flight : from balloons to biplanes /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Oppel, Frank
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Seacaucus, N.J. : Castle, [1987]
Subjects:
Flight > History.
Flying-machines > History.
Table of Contents:
  • The men who learned to fly (1908)
  • Early aeronautics (1869)
  • Worm's-eye view of flying men (1911)
  • The doves of war
  • Learning to fly (1911)
  • A modern aeronaut (1901)
  • The perils and pleasures of ballooning (1906)
  • Bird flight and air-navigation (1910)
  • The menace of aerial warfare (1909)
  • The Wright Brothers' aeroplane (1908)
  • The man-bird and his wings (1910)
  • Why flying-machines fly (1911)
  • Cross country in the aeroplane (1910)
  • The unsolved problem of human flight (1912)
  • The men who flew at Rheims (1909)
  • An aerial bivouac (1907)
  • Hammondsport: an aeroplane laboratory (1910)
  • Monoplane versus biplane (1911)
  • The highway of the air (1909)
  • Winning the first international balloon race (1907)
  • Ballooning by moonlight (1907)
  • On the wings of today (1910)
  • Flying men-o'-war
  • The greyhounds of the air (1912)
  • The dirigible balloon of M. Santos-Dumont (1901)
  • First meet of the man-birds in America (1910)
  • Over sea by air-ship (1910)
  • The sport of flying (1909)
  • Western men who would fly (1910)
  • The prince of the power of the air (1908)
  • A week of flying (1909)
  • The business side of aviation (1911)
  • A chamber of horrors (1911)
  • Airships (1909)
  • Two American conquerors of the air
  • The aerial battleship (1909)
  • Experiences in the sky (1908)
  • The safety of flying (1908)
  • A fall from the sky (1910).