Airplane: How Ideas Gave Us Wings
By Jay Spenser
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The Airplane by aerospace industry writer Jay Spencer, former assistant curator of the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum and the Museum of Flight in Seattle, is the definitive history of how we invented and refined the amazing flying machines that enabled humankind to defy gravity. A fascinating true account certain to enthrall and delight aviation and technology buffs, The Airplane is lavishly illustrated with more than 100 photographs and is the first book ever to explore the development of the jetliner through a fascinating piece-by-piece analysis of the machinery of flight.
Jay Spenser
Jay Spenser has spent a lifetime studying aviation as a museum curator at the National Air and Space Museum and the Museum of Flight, and as an aerospace industry writer. He is the co-author of 747 and lives in Seattle, Washington.
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Reviews for Airplane
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Was funny to read this book (not in a good way) the writer ignore a lot of the airplanes history from the planes made outside of the U.S.
He says the Wright Brothers was a controllable airplane and Santos Dumont wasn’t. The thing is, which one has a replica that really flies in front of the public nowadays?
For a writer who make funny of history this is not a serious book!