Название: Balloons and Airships: A Tale of Lighter Than Air Aviation
Автор: Anthony Burton
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526719495
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 210
Размер: 39,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book tells the often dramatic and always fascinating story of flight in lighter than air machines. For centuries man had dreamed of flying, but all attempts failed, until in 1782 the Montgolfier brothers constructed the world's first hot air balloon The following year saw the first ascent with aeronauts – not human beings but a sheep, a duck and a cockerel.