The World's Strangest Aircraft.
by Taylor, Michael
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0760721025
- ISBN 13
- 9780760721025
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About This Item
New York:: Barnes & Noble Books, 2000.. Reprint Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket.. 4to (about 11'' to 12.5'' tall) . Index. Description: Lavishly illustrated in b&w and color. A collection of weird and wonderful flying machines. The author points out that many important milestones in aviation development have been attained by unconventional aircraft, and while a particular flying machine from the past might look bizarre to us in retrospect, yet could have been viewed as a perfectly sensible line of approach to contemporary onlookers. Similarly, strange-looking aircraft that we know flew well, and so tend to view in a different light, might have been seen as 'barking mad' at the time. Among the strange aircraft that proved to be highly successful in their assigned tasks and added to the pool of aviation knowledge were the Bell X-1, a little rocket-powered airplane, air-dropped from a bomber -- the first aircraft to break the sound barrier.
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- Bookseller
- The Bookworm (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 043535
- Title
- The World's Strangest Aircraft.
- Author
- Taylor, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket.
- Edition
- Reprint Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0760721025
- ISBN 13
- 9780760721025
- Publisher
- Barnes & Noble Books
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 2000.
- Pages
- 112 pages.
- Size
- 4to (about 11'' to 12.5'' tall)
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