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At the beginning of this century, just before Orville and Wilbur Wright achieved their famous breakthrough, powered flight was still a dream. Who could have predicted that only 70 years later, worldwide air travel would be commonplace, wars would be fought in the air, and men and women would explore space? Few other areas of discovery have changed the world as dramatically as has aviation. The story of aviation is one of technical innovation and visionary genius, of extraordinary courage and dogged determination. Smithsonian Frontiers of Flight celebrates the milestones in the history of flight by profiling the aircraft chosen by the curators of the National Air and Space Museum as the most important in their matchless collection. It tells the story of these history-making airplanes and of the men and women who built and flew them. Among the two dozen aircraft featured are the Wright brothers' 1903 Flyer, the first powered airplane to achieve sustained, controllable flight; Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, perhaps the single most famous aircraft in history; the Winnie Mae, flown by Wiley Post on two record around-the-world flights in the 1930s; the H-1, flown by Howard Hugh

Author

Ethell, Jeffrey L.

Publisher

Smithsonian Books; Orion Books [distributor]

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780517592083

Subjects

Engineering, History, Stem