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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…mehr

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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 Planebuilders DonaldDouglas,William Allen, and Jack Northrop Inventors William Lear and Burt and Richard Rutan "A Brief History of Flight" reenacts the events that led to our greatest developments in commercial and military aviation. Witness the race between Europe, Japan, and the United States for flight supremacy. You'll learn how Wilbur and Orville Wright transferred their transportation savvy from bicycles to airplanes, and see the rise-and fall-of the zeppelin, one of the mostromantic inventions of the twentieth century. You'll be there at the Battle of Midway and the Battle of Britain, and in the skies over Germany. You'll watch the circumstances unfold that led to the tragic atomic bombing of Hiroshima.Selbst in unserer heutigen Vielfliegergesellschaft übt die Vorstellung vom Fliegen noch immer eine ganz besondere Faszination auf uns aus. T. A. Heppenheimer, anerkannter Luftfahrtexperte und -autor, beschreibt hier sehr spannend die Geschichte der Luftfahrt - von den ersten Flugversuchen bis hin zur den heutigen Flügen mit Überschallgeschwindigkeit. Er stellt eine Reihe schillernder Charaktere vor - angefangen bei so hervorragenden Designern und Erfindern wie Howard Hughes und Donald Douglas bis hin zum berühmt-berüchtigten "Roten Baron" Manfred von Richthofen. Zeppelin, die Gebrüder Wright, Lindbergh, Whittle und viele andere Berühmtheiten der Luftfahrt werden in diesem fesselnden Buch beschrieben. Jeder der voller Begeisterung einen Heißluftballon aufsteigen oder einen Jumbo abheben sieht, wird dieses Buch verschlingen: Es erzählt die wunderbare Geschichte des ewigen Traums der Menschen vom Fliegen und wie dieser Traum Wirklichkeit wurde.
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"Whether you're an aviation buff, a business reader, a technology watcher, or simply interested in flight, A Brief History of Flight will leave you wondering what the world of aviation can possibly do for an encore.Critical Praise for T. A. Heppenheimer"Countdown is by far the best history of space flight I have ever read. It is detailed, lucidly written for the layman, and full of fascinating stories." (ADRIAN BERRY, Daily Telegraph) "With the precision of a scientist, a good reporter's marshaling of disparate facts, and the vigor of a natural storyteller, Heppenheimer offers an absorbing narrative." (RICHARD SNOW, Editor, American Heritage)