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The Nation's Hangar: Aircraft Treasures of the Smithsonian

By van der Linden , F. Robert

Book information

Publisher
Smithsonian;Random House Publisher Services
Year
2012
ISBN
9781588343161, 9781588343888, 1588343162
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
66 MB (69242968 bytes)
Pages
347 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

The Nation's Hangar: Aircraft Treasures of the Smithsonian offers a fascinating textual and visual history of civilian, military, and commercial aviation from the earliest balloon flights to today's most advanced aircraft. The Nation's Hangar charts the awe-inspiring history of flight around the world. F. Robert Van Der Linden, a Smithsonian curator and leading expert on aviation history, explains the fascinating stories behind aviation's great technological advances and provides historic and social context that highlights the many ways in which these innovations have changed the course of hu.

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