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Title: From Wax Wings to Flying Drones
Condition: New
Author: Norman Ferguson
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Subtitle: A Very Unreliable History of Aviation
EAN: 9780750999731
ISBN: 9780750999731
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 08/11/2022
Language: English
Item Height: 198mm
Genre: Humour & Joke Books
Topic: Technology & Engineering, Travel & Transport
Description:

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?’


Item Length: 129mm
Release Year: 2022

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