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72 pages :

colour illustrations.
On cover: New edition with wall chart.
Summary: Learn all about flying machines and the history of flight in this guide to the history and science of humanity's most incredible feat - flying! Features aircraft from Leonardo da Vinci's wing machines to jet airliners, as well as helicopters, gliders, zeppelins, monoplanes, biplanes, and even triplanes. Learn how technology made flight possible, which tools pilots use, and how taking to the skies has shaped human history.

Eyewitness.