book (92 of 1409)

• 144 pages, coloured, hardcover
• Size: 19 x 25 cm
• Blurb:
  »Flying remained an unattainable goal for many hundreds of years, but once it became a practical possibility it made up for lost time with bewildering rapidity; few other forms of transport can have progressed so far so quickly. The Wrights were well content with speeds of 40 m.p.h. In their stick-and-string biplanes: today...«