num_pages: 192
description: This is the fascinating story of the dream of a completely new aircraft, a hybrid of the plane and the rigid airship - huge, wingless, moving slowly through the lower sky. John McPhee chronicles the perhaps unfathomable perseverance of the aircraft's sucessive progenitors.
language: English
title: The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
titlecomplete: The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
genres: Essays, Technology, Engineering, Science, Literature, Nonfiction, History, Aviation
ratings_count: 462
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux