Airplanes : the life story of a technology /
Kinney, Jeremy R.,author.
National Air and Space Museum.
The development of safe and efficient air travel required solving multiple engineering riddles about aerodynamics, control, propulsion, and structures. This book shows how the solutions to these riddles have helped spur dramatic changes in the world's social and cultural life.
Originally published: Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-149) and index.
The development of safe and efficient air travel required solving multiple engineering riddles about aerodynamics, control, propulsion, and structures. This book shows how the solutions to these riddles have helped spur dramatic changes in the world's social and cultural life.
Airplanes
Aeronautics and civilization.
Aeronautics and civilization.
Airplanes.