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O’Brien,
Patrick.
FANTASTIC FLIGHTS : ONE HUNDRED
YEARS OF FLYING ON THE EDGE
New York : Walker Publishing
Company, 2003
IL 3-6, RL 6.2
ISBN 0802788807
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Fantastic
Flights, by Patrick O’Brien, traces aviation history from Lilienthal’s
first gliders in the 1890’s, through the Wright brothers’ first historic
flight at Kitty Hawk, and on to the landing on Mars in 1997. His
easy to read and understand descriptions of the flights are only made clearer
by his fabulous full-page illustrations. He includes enough facts
and figures in the sidebars for those statistically inclined reader, while
describing each flight in very readable narrative. The blue-print
like drawings on the endpapers make the reader eager to get started. This
is a great book for both history and aviation enthusiasts. (Becky
Bridges, South Carolina Book
Awards, 2006) |
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SUBJECTS:
Aeronautics -- History.
Flight. |
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