Publication type
non-fiction
Summary
The development of aircraft from the balloon to the airplane, circa 1930
Keywords
- early gropings,
- the advent of the balloon,
- airships,
- steam & electric power,
- lilienthal/ader/maxim & langley,
- the wright brothers & the flight of 1903,
- european flights,
- the conquest of the channel,
- later aerial milestones,
- air races,
- before/during & after wwi,
- the future