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| Author | : Paul E. Eden |
| Publisher | : Gareth Stevens |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2006-12-30 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780836869064 |
Introduces a variety of experimental aircraft, including those with round wings, moveable wings, or no wings at all.
| Author | : Michael Taylor |
| Publisher | : Metro Publishing, Limited |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2001-04 |
| Genre | : Aeronautics |
| ISBN | : 9781586632120 |
Man has challenged the rules of gravity, engineering, and design ever since he first set his sights on the sky. From the brilliantly strange to the strangely brilliant, this collection of flying machines represents some of the most unusual and unconventional vehicles ever to take to the air.
| Author | : Eric Brown |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781902109169 |
Eric 'Winkle' Brown, the former Chief Naval Test Pilot and Commanding Officer of the renowned Aerodynamics Flight at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having flown more types of aircraft than any other pilot in the world. The ground rules for this assessment were that only pilot-in-command flights should count, and that marks or variants of a basic type of aircraft were not included. This remarkable record is reflected in the fact that Captain Brown is both the most decorated Fleet Air Arm and British test pilot. The variety of aircraft he has flown is incredible, and though his test and naval flying writings are already internationally known, he now has opened up pages of his flying log books to reveal some of the more unusual types in his unique experience, and to relate their virtues or vices. From the infamous Mitsubishi Zero-Sen and U.S. Navy's piston-engine Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat to the post-war swept-wing de Havilland Swallow. From the North American Savage designed to take off from an aircraft carrier with a nuclear bomb to the Supermarine Attacker, Eric 'Winkle' Brown has tested their qualities and takes the reader into the cockpits of those exciting aircraft to thrill to the joys and hazards of flying both weird and wonderful aircraft with one of the greatest of all pilots.
| Author | : Graeme Cook |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 46 |
| Release | : 1975 |
| Genre | : Airplanes |
| ISBN | : 9780890090329 |
| Author | : International Masters Publishers, Incorporated |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 1996-12-01 |
| Genre | : Aeronautics |
| ISBN | : 9781886614161 |
Photographs and information about all aircraft.
| Author | : Eric Brown |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Aerospace engineering |
| ISBN | : 9781902109152 |
"During the first chaotic months after the fall of the Third Reich, the RAE sent test pilots throughout the British Zone of Occupation to collect examples of the Luftwaffe's standard aircraft and then ferry them to Farnborough. Captain Eric Brown was a pilot in this ferrying operation. Here Brown delivers a detailed assessment of the characteristics of these principal German aircraft: Fw200C; Heinkel He162; Junkers Ju87; Dornier Do217; Messerschmitt Me262, Bf109G, Bf110, Me163, and several others."--Publisher's description.
| Author | : James Hamilton-Paterson |
| Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2010-10-07 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0571271731 |
In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a fighter. The Hawker Hunter, the most beautiful fighter-jet ever built and the Lightning, which could zoom ten miles above the clouds in a couple of minutes and whose pilots rated flying it as better than sex. How did Britain so lose the plot that today there is not a single aircraft manufacturer of any significance in the country? What became of the great industry of de Havilland or Handley Page? And what was it like to be alive in that marvellous post-war moment when innovative new British aircraft made their debut, and pilots were the rock stars of the age? James Hamilton-Paterson captures that season of glory in a compelling book that fuses his own memories of being a schoolboy plane spotter with a ruefully realistic history of British decline - its loss of self confidence and power. It is the story of great and charismatic machines and the men who flew them: heroes such as Bill Waterton, Neville Duke, John Derry and Bill Beaumont who took inconceivable risks, so that we could fly without a second thought.
| Author | : Andrew Glass |
| Publisher | : StarWalk Kids Media |
| Total Pages | : 35 |
| Release | : 2014-06-30 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1630833819 |
Inspired by a model helicopter and encouraged by their parents and sister, young Orville and Wilbur Wright attempt to build a life-size helicopter from scrap.
| Author | : Robert Forsyth |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 91 |
| Release | : 2017-06-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472819969 |
In late 1944, the German Air Ministry organised what it called an 'Emergency Fighter Competition' intended to produce designs for quick-to-build yet technically and tactically effective jet fighter aircraft capable of tackling the anticipated arrival of the B-29 Superfortress over Europe, as well as the British Mosquito and US P-38 Lightning which were appearing in ever greater numbers. Thus was born a cutting-edge, highly sophisticated series of aircraft including the futuristic and elegant Focke-Wulf Ta 183; the extraordinary Blohm und Voss P.212, and the state-of-the-art Messerschmitt P.1101 series. Armed with heavy cannon and the latest air-to-air rockets and missiles, these were designed to inflict carnage on American bomber formations at high speed. Using stunning three-view illustrations of each prototype along with full colour artwork, aviation expert Robert Forsyth traces the history of the extraordinary aircraft of the 'Emergency Fighter Competition', Hitler's last throw of the dice in the air war against the Allies.
| Author | : Milo Rossi |
| Publisher | : Wellfleet Press |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2023-10-03 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 0760380015 |
The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful features explanations of some of the most intriguing and entertaining facts from prehistory, ancient Egypt, the Industrial Revolution, and beyond. Discover a plethora of intriguing and entertaining facts from archaeology and history—brought to life with the author’s signature wit and levity. In The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful, TikTok educator and Youtuber Milo Rossi presents an assortment of funny and detailed anecdotes of some of the more quotidian mysteries of life, such as: Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a mother in the Mesolithic period as the climate shifted, the seas rose, and wild game migrated? Or what types of dogs paced the wide and narrow forest patches of North America as their masters constructed some of the largest earthen works in the world? Or what meals were eaten under the trees of the old- growth forests of ancient Europe, how China accidentally invented standardized testing by refining their government, or what fashion trends shook the mining camps during the California gold rush? Coupled with engaging illustrations, The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful takes the saying “you learn something new every day” to a new extreme!
