Firsts in Flight

Alexander Graham Bell and His Innovative Airplanes

Terrance MacDonald (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

96 Seiten

2018
Formac Publishing,Canada (Verlag)
978-1-4595-0478-3 (ISBN)

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Canada's little-known role in the early history of aviation

Alexander Graham Bell and his team of innovative young engineers created groundbreaking new technologies during three years of furious activity in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, in the early 1900s. The knowledge and skills of this group allowed them to innovate flight technologies which have continued to be fundamental to aircraft design. In this book, aviation author Terrance MacDonald puts together, for the first time, the full story of their achievements.Bell's unique group of engineers, a mechanical specialist and a military officer, built over twenty airplanes, which incorporated many new sophisticated technological developments. Bell's well-known Silver Dart was only one of a long line of his team's experimental airplanes.This book describes the aircraft, the people, and the communities who participated with Bell in his mission to construct a reliable and secure flying machine. Over the years the group started to lose members, and when the Canadian government refused to purchase aircraft based on Bell's experiments the reconfigured group folded. Meanwhile, one group member left to found a major aircraft manufacturing operation in the US.Bell's team carefully documented all their work, and as a consequence there are hundreds of compelling photos from this era. The book includes 60+ of these images, and offers links to early movies documenting these aircraft and their flights.

Terrance W. MacDonald is also the author ofThe Black Box: Dead Pilots Don't Talk. He is a retired airline pilot who has taken up writing for a second career. He lives in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Erscheinungsdatum	18.08.2017
Zusatzinfo	60+ b&w and colour images
Verlagsort	Halifax
Sprache	englisch
Maße	8 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Luftfahrt / Raumfahrt
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
ISBN-10	1-4595-0478-X / 145950478X
ISBN-13	978-1-4595-0478-3 / 9781459504783
Zustand	Neuware