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Illustrated History of Aircraft PDF

168 Pages·1977·20.53 MB·English
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ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BRENDAN GALLAGHER OVER ILLUSTRATIONS 170 Pi MIMMMMMMM ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF AIRCRAFT This history is a concise introductionto the great developments in aviation from its origins to modem times. The splendid and classic achievements ofSir George Cayley, Otto Lilienthal, the Wright brothers and the many other pioneers are engrossingly portrayed. The importance ofthe two world wars to the aviation story is recognized and a chapter is devoted to each. The reader is brought up to date with innovations such as the Soviet MiG-25 Foxbat, the Rockwell International B-l bomber, the largest variable-geometry aircraft flying, and the Panavia Ibrnado and the F-16, the fighters of the 1980s. The book is fully illustrated with more than 170 photographs. 405 J*. r"B Illustrated T I I Aircraft w / 4L GALLERY BOOKS W AnImprintof H.SmithPublishersInc. 112MadisonAvenue NewYorkCity10016 n i / - <$5*» =_ 6 Beginnings Phiuan-ett 22 World War enchant I 42 Inter-War Years Kenneth S.Allen 58 World War II BillSweetman Age-Military let Charles Gilson Jet Age-Civil JJ0ohn Stroud i and Helicopters Light Aircraft rRichard Riding FirstpublishedinGreatBritainh> OctopusHooks 59GrosvenorStreet.LondonWl Thiseditionpublishedin 1984b\ Gallon Books AnimprintofW.H.SmithPublishersInc. 112MadisonAvenue.New York.New York mold c 1977OctopusBook ISBNOX3I74S672 Chapter 1 .* O single invention has changed the world > I and the lives of men as much as the aeroplane. Yet the realization of man's age-old yearning to share the lofty domain of the birds came only at the turn of our own century. Through countless ages before this, great men and eccentrics had speculated, prophesied and experimented with all manner of devices. Leonardo da Vinci made numerous sketches for man-powered ornithopters in the 15th century, and also proposed the helicopter and parachute. None were built, however, and his beliefthat man could fly by his own muscle-power was ill-founded, as was to be proved by Giovanni Alphonso Borelli, a professor of mathematics at Messina and Pisa, in De Motu Animalium, published in 1680 after his death. Man's first essays into the atmosphere were made by hot-air balloon. The first person to conceive ofthis means ofascensionwas a Brazilian

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