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The Airplane : How Ideas Gave Us Wings - Jay Spenser

The Airplane

How Ideas Gave Us Wings

By: Jay Spenser

eBook | 17 January 2024

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The Airplane by aerospace industry writer Jay Spencer, former assistant curator of the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum and the Museum of Flight in Seattle, is the definitive history of how we invented and refined the amazing flying machines that enabled humankind to defy gravity. A fascinating true account certain to enthrall and delight aviation and technology buffs, The Airplane is lavishly illustrated with more than 100 photographs and is the first book ever to explore the development of the jetliner through a fascinating piece-by-piece analysis of the machinery of flight.

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"A story with a new character and a new engineering problem on every other page, each served with a sense of delight in ideas that sent humanity aloft."
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