Publication type
non-fiction
Summary
Overview of the origins & development of the airplane, circa 1960
Keywords
- early ides of flight 1800 - 1903,
- the wright brothers & the flight of 1903,
- beginnings of aviation in europe 1900 - 1908,
- practical powered flight 1909-1914,
- world war 1,
- between the wars 1919-1939,
- world war 2,
- modern aviation,
- the origins of the kite,
- the origins of the rocket,
- the origins of the parachute,
- the origins of the aero engine,
- the origins of the airscrew
