Название: Mayday!: A History of Flight through its Martyrs, Oddballs, and Daredevils
Автор: David Darling
Издательство: Oneworld Publications
ISBN: 1780744099
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 216
Размер: 15,3 МБ
Язык: Английский
The wonder of flight has long captured the human imagination. In this beguiling history — ranging from the first aircraft to astronauts and beyond — David Darling tells the stories of the true-life adventurers whose wonder has translated into bizarre contraptions, magnificent achievements, and, sometimes, startling folly. Readers will discover outrageous attempts to fly like a bird and fall from the edge of space, as well as meet Napoleonic ballooniste Sophie Blanchard and her daredevil husband, the real “X-Men” who flew the supersonic experimental “X-planes” for the U.S. Air Force