Название: Cross-Channel Aviation Pioneers: Blanchard and Bleriot, Vikings and Viscounts
Автор: Bruce Hales-Dutton
Издательство: Air World
ISBN: 152677559X
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 240
Размер: 2,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

On 25 July 1909, a dapper, mustachioed Frenchman flying a flimsy, diaphanous airplane changed the status of a great nation. "England is no longer an island," declared the Daily Mail. Lord Northcliffe, the newspaper’s proprietor, had put up the £1,000 prize for the first flight of the English Channel by the pilot of an airplane.