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Tells the story of ambition and achievement, follies and failures; records every aspect of the most exciting technical achievement of our century in over 500 pages of highly factual narrative and full color illustration.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Taylor, John W. R. 1922-1999, Munson, Kenneth (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crown, [1976, ©1972]
Subjects:
Aeronautics > History.
Airplanes > History.
Astronautics > History.
Avions > Histoire.
Astronautique > Histoire.
Aeronautics.
Airplanes.
Astronautics.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Gods and feathered fools
  • Kites
  • Lighter than air
  • Airborne: at last
  • The great age of balloons
  • Dirigibility
  • The great designers: Da Vinci and Cayley
  • For want of a horse
  • Ader, Maxim and Lilienthal
  • Threshold of success
  • The Wright brothers
  • Albert Santos-Dumont
  • After the Wrights
  • Names to remember
  • The pioneering helicopter year
  • Trials, troubles and triplanes
  • Failure and triumph over the channel
  • Brothers in aviation
  • The first air shows
  • Daily mail and aviation
  • First of the jets
  • Henri Fabre
  • Wings over water
  • The daring ones
  • The rotary engine revolution
  • The air mail begins
  • Two great designers
  • The world's first multi-engined aircraft
  • Genesis of air combat
  • The start of air bombing
  • How the airplane went to sea
  • An industry arises
  • The beginning of the airlines
  • The first of many
  • Opening up the airways
  • Wings over the Atlantic
  • First over the poles
  • Fokker: the flying Dutchman
  • The airlines grow up
  • Over oceans and continents
  • Air control
  • Charles Kingsford Smith
  • Aviator, Agitator
  • The Barnstormers
  • Lightest of the light
  • The star of the flying club movement
  • Geoffrey de Havilland
  • US National air races
  • Flying aircraft carriers
  • The first Doodlebugs
  • Brothers of the line
  • The wings rotate
  • Sikorsky
  • Large aircraft between the wars
  • Handley Page.
  • Birth of the modern airliner
  • The era of airline flying-boats
  • The Schneider Trophy
  • Quest for speed
  • Improving the breed
  • The capricious thirties
  • Stretching the range
  • Comfort in the air
  • Rough and ready
  • Flying doctor
  • Twenty years on
  • Hendon's heyday
  • The growth in Aircraft armament
  • Zygmunt Pulawski
  • Poland, the Phoney War and the Battle of France
  • Battle of Scotland
  • Radar
  • Battle of Britain
  • The epic of the ATA
  • The Battle of the Atlantic
  • The Allied Bomber Offensive
  • Barnes Wallis
  • Air War over Africa 1940-1943
  • The moon men
  • Air War in the Pacific 1941-1945
  • Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle
  • Professor Ernst Heinkel
  • The first jets
  • a nest of vipers
  • Buzz-bombs and ballistic missiles
  • First pioneers of the space age
  • Post-War airlines
  • Post-war air tramps
  • Post-war giants
  • Broken barriers
  • Enter the comet
  • The gas turbine revolution
  • Russian aviation after 1945
  • The first 'post-war' wars
  • The post war growth of private flying
  • The famous and the few
  • Starting to look at space
  • One man's dream
  • The first man-made satellites
  • First men in space
  • Aircraft and astronautics
  • The first space walkers
  • Air over in the Middle East and Vietnam
  • General aviation
  • Light planes by the thousand
  • Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev
  • Supersonic transports
  • Satellites at work today
  • Probes to Venus
  • Men and robots explore the moon
  • This, almost, is where we came in.