This playful history looks back at the story of flight since the first
patient-to-be jumped from a castle parapet to the joy that is flying
with a hen night to Prague.
It features all the important aircraft, pilots and defining moments that
have echoed down the century and a bit since that first flight on a
famous date in 1903. The book will answer all those questions that dog
proper aeronautical historians: Was Keith Harris's Orville really named
after the first ever flyer? What exactly is a 'Spitfire'? Why did
Richard Branson try to cross the Atlantic in a balloon when he owned an
airline?
Featuring all the great pioneers of flight, the Montgolfier Brothers,
the Wright Brothers, Louis Bleriot, Charles Lindbergh, and more, there's
plenty to absorb here for any aviation buff.