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A Brief History of Flight
T. A. Heppenheimer
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A Brief History of Flight

From Balloons to Mach 3 and Beyond

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Fascinating anecdotes and lively first-person accounts animate T. A. Heppenheimer's spellbinding work. Through Heppenheimer's magical storytelling, readers will encounter the colorful characters-the inventors, entrepreneurs, scientists, businessmen, pilots, and air warriors-who made flight the stuff of our dreams.You'll read rare portraits of Charles Lindbergh, Chuck Yeager, and Howard Hughes, as well as such luminaries as: Sir George Cayley, the first inventor of the airplane William Bollay, the "quiet rocket research man" Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, the nation's leading aircraft designer Plane...