Author: Gary Mccarthy
Publisher:
Published: 2018-10-24
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781728984896
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the lobby of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum hangs the legendary VIN FIZ which made the first transcontinental flight across America in 1911 piloted by Galbraith Perry Rodgers. This SCRIPT STORY is based on that amazing story. It was a hot summer afternoon in Washington D.C. when I entered the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and first witnessed the famous VIN FIZ, hanging from the ceiling and looking small and frail inside the massive entry hall. It was a Wright Brothers
Author: Patrick O'Brien
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2003-07-01
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 0802788807
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes seventeen twentieth-century historic flights and their pilots, from the Wright brothers to those of the space shuttles.
Author: Pete Fusco
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-01-02
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1510728201
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An adventure-filled romp through one of aviation’s most notable, dangerous and entertaining pursuits: airshows! In the early days of aviation, all flights were airshows. Spectators gathered whenever a new flying machine attempted to leave the ground—the trick was to get them to pay. Takeoffs and landings did not sell tickets but people lined up, money in hand, to watch a “dip of death,” in which an aviator would dive from as high as he or she dared and pull up at the last second. Risk always sells and flying was man’s riskiest endeavor yet. From the start the “exhibition pilots” stood out. Everything about an aerobatic routine requires a degree of skill and a commitment to practice inconceivable to even most pilots, presenting innumerable risks to life and limb. And with risk, often, comes tragedy. The Crowd Pleasers is a sweeping history of air show accidents beginning in 1910 with the death of Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce, and ending in the present day. It brings to light some of the most notable air show accidents of all time and explores the aviators behind them. Their stories, their motivations. In so doing, it illuminates the role played by choice, social circumstance and fate in these often devastating accidents, and the lives attached to them. A must-read for all aviation buffs.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 1510
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 1716
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
Author: Elspeth Leacock
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 0618311149
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Americans have always been a people on the move. Journeys in Time maps twenty journeys that have shaped our national past. These are stories of change -- of pilgrims and pioneers, soldiers and children, explorers and adventurers building new lives and finding new worlds. From a cabin boy who sailed with Columbus to a Union soldier and a young migrant farm worker, these journeys changed the lives of those who took them.
Author: Eileen F. Lebow
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
Published: 1989-10-17
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of Cal Rogers who in 1911 became the first person to fly across the United States alone.