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26 August 2009, 02:28 PM
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Any good books about early flight?
Im searching for books about early flight and attempts that has plenty of illustrations and detail without it being tedious.
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26 August 2009, 02:41 PM
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27 August 2009, 01:29 AM
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29 August 2009, 08:07 PM
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I highly recommend "Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity to the First World War" by Richard Hallion. It does a great job at covering a pretty significant amount of history in a relatively compact package. It's a great starting point as everything technical is well cited. Also, the "Lore of Flight" does a pretty decent job, and has great illustrations of early engines and airframes.
In my book, nothing beats WW1 Aero when it comes to aviation history and information, but it'd be a pretty expensive to buy all 201 issues... 
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29 August 2009, 09:33 PM
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Early Flight books
Hey Willie,
See if you can get hold of "The Flying Omnibus" Edited by Paul Jensen and Published in 1953 by Cassell & Co Ltd. It has 30 short stories about aviation 11 of which are about early flight and is a good read. A mixture of fact and fiction but all great stories. 
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11 September 2009, 08:00 PM
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Some excellent accounts about early aviation can be found in the "Epic of Flight" series of books from Time-Life. Some of the books that may appeal are:
The Aeronauts - ISBN 0809432676They are very well written and edited, and the graphics and photographs are first rate. The books are laid out in such a way to allow for easy browsing, or for more in-depth enjoyment, if you care to read the narrative text. Though the books originally came out some thiry years ago, I think they stack up fairly well to anything that's been published since. Cheers, Paul Last edited by aerohydro; 11 September 2009 at 08:15 PM. |
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