Название: Speed in the Air
Автор: David W. Wragg
Издательство: Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc.
Год: 1974
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 200
Размер: 22,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

For airplanes speed is still the most important, perhaps the onlv, advantage that aircraft has over other methods of travel, and the well-known aviation writer David Wragg tells this fascinating story in all its picturesque aspects — aviation meetings, the Federation Auronautique Internationale, the Wright Brothers and Louis Bleriot, the rise of the monoplane, the 'unofficial' speeds of the two World Wars, the Schneider Trophy races and the dominance of the seaplane, the first airliners, the Messerschmitt and the Spitfire, pistons giving way to turbojets and then to rockets, the sound barrier, the supersonic era and the air-launched aircraft, Mach 6 and over.