About this title: If you really wish to learn wrote Wilbur Wright, you must mount a machine and become acquainted with its tricks by actual trial. And even before the Wright Flyer took off on its history-making first flight, intrepid researchers had been testing many different flying machines: the hapless tower jumpers of the Dark Ages; the balloonist of the ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Edition Unstated
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Smithsonian Institute Press, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780874745498ISBN:0874745497
Description: Very Good- As issued No Jacket. Spine lean, corner bumps, long scratches on both covers, some indents/scratches to the front cover, edgewear tot he covers, and other light shopwear. This edition updated to include Challenger and Voyager. read more
Edition: reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Co, Garden City
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780385154697ISBN:0385154690
Description: Good/Good, water staining to rear of just jacket, rear cover and top on last 100 pages. xii, 348 p., photos, sources, biblio, index, 8vo; read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780874745498ISBN:0874745497
Description: Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Co., Garden City
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780385154697ISBN:0385154690
Description: Very Good in Good dust jacket. 0385154690. 347 pages, 32 plates, cloth, dj, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. 1st edition. Includes Samuel Langley, the Wrights, Glenn Curtiss, Geoffrey de Havilland, Charles Lindbergh, Jimmy Doolittle, Erich Warsitz, Chuck Yeager and Neil Armstrong. read more
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY
Date Published: 1981
Description: Fair to good, fair to good. 347, illus., sources, bibliography, index, yellow highlighting on several pages, DJ soiled: small tears, small chips missing. read more
Description: Very Good. HALLION, RICHARD P. Test Pilots: The Frontiersmen of Flight. Doubleday 1981, 347 pp. 1st ed.w. repaired d.j., former owner's bkplte, OP. read more
Description: Good. Excellent customer service. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
Description: Updated to included Challenger and Voyager; Smithsonian Press; Softbound/light edge wear; otherwise in very good condition with clean text, tight binding; read more
Description: New. New Book. Excellent customer service. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
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