Title: Aviation century: wings of change /
Authors: Dick, Ron, 1931-; Patterson, Dan, 1953-
Publisher: Boston Mills Press ; Distributed in the United States by Firefly Books,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Aeronautics History; Aéronautique Histoire.
Abstract: Comprehensive resource to aeronautical developments in the 20th century, including: commercial aviation, private flying, sailplanes, lighter-than-air flight (balloons, dirigibles), rotary wings (helicopters), research and development, and test pilots.
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Foreword by Fred Smith -- Foreword by Michael Oakey -- Photographer's preface by Dan Patterson -- Introduction by Air Vice-Marshal Ron Dick -- ch. 1. The safest way to travel -- ch. 2. Personal and private -- ch. 3. Lighter than air -- ch. 4. The wings rotate -- ch. 5. At the frontier -- Bibliography -- Index.