Wind & Beyond: A Documentary Journey into the History of Aerodynamics in America: Volume I: The Ascent of the Airplane

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Year: 2003
Pages: 689
Binding Hardcover

Product Code: 0756743141

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James R. Hansen (ed); Stephen Garber (fr). The first volume in a 6-volume series by NASA that tells how ideas about aerodynamics first came together & how the science & technology evolved to forge the airplane into the revolutionary machine that it became. Vol. I relates the story of the invention of the airplane by the Wright brothers & the creation of the original aeronautical research establishment in the U.S. Chapters: Series Intro.: Talking with the Wind, Collaborating with Genius; Significant Aircraft List; Series Bibliographic Essay: Days on the Wing; The Achievement of Flight; & Building a Research Establishment. Photographs.

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