From Wax Wings to Flying Drones

A Very Unreliable History of Aviation

Norman Ferguson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

2022
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7509-9973-1 (ISBN)

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An irreverent romp through time looking back over the history of aviation, from Icarus and his wax wings to everything that happened since

Was Keith Harris’s Orville really named after the first-ever flyer?

What exactly is a ‘Spitfire’?

Why did Richard Branson try to cross the Atlantic in a balloon when he owned an airline?

These are the questions that fail to keep proper aeronautical historians awake – but no matter, From Wax Wings to Flying Drones is here to answer them. Chock-full of important stuff like planes, pilots and pioneers such as the Wright brothers, Amelia Earhart and that man off the telly who used to fly on Concorde, this is a book for everyone who’s ever watched a plane in the sky and thought, ‘I wonder what its registration is?’

Norman Ferguson has been interested in aviation all his life. Born into a family of plane-spotters, one grandfather was an anti-aircraft gunner, the other a Blitz ARP warden, and his father was an intercept radar operator in the RAF. Norman was in the ATC and reached the heady heights of champion in Aircraft Recognition in 1982 (Scottish and Northern Ireland area). He has previously written The Little Book of Aviation, 5 Minute History: First World War in the Air and Project Apollo: The Moon Odyssey Explained for The History Press. He lives in Edinburgh.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.08.2022
Zusatzinfo	20 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Stroud
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Luftfahrt / Raumfahrt
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
ISBN-10	0-7509-9973-X / 075099973X
ISBN-13	978-0-7509-9973-1 / 9780750999731
Zustand	Neuware