The Risk Takers: Racing Record-Setting Aircraft: A Unique Pictorial Record 1908-1972 (Osprey Aviation Pioneers 2)

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Synopsis: This book focuses upon two distinct but complementary - and in certain cases overlapping - aspects of aviation. At the Reims Air Show in 1909, the American Glenn Curtiss and Frenchman Louis Bleriot vied with each other for the speed record and Henry Farman won the distance prize. The first official air races were held in 1911. Why 'The Risk Takers'? There were a staggering 32 aviation fatalities in 1910; CS Rolls (co-founder of Rolls-Royce) was the first to perform a non-stop return crossing of the English Channel; but his Wright Flyer would break up in mid-air a month later. This book illustrates and analyses all such pioneering achievements in precise technical detail.

From the Publisher: Aviation Pioneers looks at the earliest days of flight, depicting early aircraft in rare archival black and white photography, and featuring portraits and biographies of the pioneers of flight themselves.

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Title: The Risk Takers: Racing Record-Setting ...
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new