The Story of Flight: The Development of Aviation Through the Ages

Author(s): Stephen Woolford

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From the first flights using balloons and gliders, to the successful launch of spacecraft by the United States and the former USSR, man has been fascinated by the challenge of air travel. This illustrated book features the history of flight.

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Stephen Woolford is the Head of Interpretation and Collections at Imperial War Museum Duxford, one of the world's premier aviation museums. Carl Warner is Research and Information Manager there and together, they are responsible for many of the outstanding displays and exhibitions.

Taking Flight; The Wright Brothers; Louis Bleriot: the First English Channel Flight; The Belle Epoque; The Aeroplane Goes to War; Air Fighting in the First World War; Bombers and Bombing; Industry; Aircraft and Air Forces; The First Transatlantic Flights; Aviation in the 1920s and 1930s; New York to Paris Non-Stop; Airships and Flying Boats; The First Modern Airliners; The Approach and Outbreak of the Second World War; The Battle of Britain; The Bomber War; Working with the Armies; The Air War at Sea; Industry and New Technologies; Air Travel in the Post War World; Cold War Confrontation; Air Power in Korea and Vietnam; The Space Race; The Jet Age; Modern Air Power; Aviation for All?; Aviation in the Modern World.

General Fields

  • : 9781847323569
  • : Carlton Books Ltd
  • : Prion Books Ltd
  • : 31 August 2009
  • : 260mm X 298mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 01 April 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Stephen Woolford
  • : Hardback
  • : 4-Dec
  • : 629.1309
  • : 64
  • : approximately 150 colour & black & white images