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Wings - A History of Aviation from Kites to the Space Age (Paperback, New Ed Of)
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Wings - A History of Aviation from Kites to the Space Age (Paperback, New Ed Of)
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In a new era of global commerce, revolutionary technologies, and
world war, the sheer exhileration of flight captured the
imagination. Tom Crouch weaves the people, machines, and ideas of
the air age into a compelling narrative. Yet the documentation of
amateur enthusiasm in the face of practical reality and
consequences does not simply offer a narrative of unalloyed
progress. Moments of exhaltation are tempered by bitter
disappointment and stark terror. Blind alleys are the price of
technical progress. In the end, there is no more fascinating cast
of characters than those who wrote the history in the sky. Theirs
is an engaging story of realizing an extraordinary dream and riding
it. TOM CROUCH is the author of the "sensitive and intelligent"
(The Sunday Telegraph), "most readable, authoritative and balanced"
(New Scientist), The Bishop's Boys (Norton). "Tom Crouch tells [the
story] in huge detail and remarkably well" (The Guardian).
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