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"Some of those who people this book are: Alberto Santos-Dumont, the "first man to fly" ; Albert I of Monaco, a scientist -prince ; Alfred, Lord Northcliffe, "the Napoleon of Fleet Street" ; His brother, Harold, Lord Rothermere ; Winston Churchill, cabinet minister and later Prime Minister ; Joey Smallwood, reporter, later Premier of Newfoundland ; Orville and Wilbur Wright, whose flights were ignored ; Louis Bleriot, the first to fly the English Channel ; T.O.M. Sopwith, builder of planes ; Fred Raynham, an early distinguished test pilot ; Harry Hawker, "the highest paid flyer in the world' ; Jack Alcock, later Sir John, pilot ; Teddy Whitten-Brown, later Sir Arthur, navigator ; Rear Admiral Mark Kerr, sailor-airman-author-poet ; Tryggve Gran, a Norwegian with Captain Scott in Antartica ; Herbert Brackley, much-decorated pilot ; Glenn Curtiss, American aerial pioneer ; John Towers, commander of the U.S. Navy's first air division ; "Putty" Read, first American to fly the Atlantic ; Robert Lavender, radio specialist, later legal aide in the development of the atomic bomb ; Marc Mitscher, pilot, later a famous admiral ; Pat Bellinger, an early U.S. naval flyer ; Kathleen Kennedy, th

Author

Rowe, Percy

Publisher

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart

Published

1977

Language

EN

ISBN

9780771077395

Subjects

Engineering, Stem