Smith Graham: Taking to the Skies: The Story of British Aviation 1903-1939
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Amazingly, the first manned, powered flight in the world took place only a hundred years ago. The event itself went almost unrecorded. But the cork had left the bottle and, with rapid momentum, the race was on for faster and longer ranged aeroplanes, buoyed up by huge public enthusiasm for the pioneer aviators such as A.V.Roe, Charles Rolls, Geoffrey de Havilland, and Thomas Sopwith. They were…