Aviation''s Most Wanted - The Top 10 Book of Winged Wonders, Lucky Landings, Other Aerial

Informationen zum Autor Steve A. Ruffin is an aviation writer and pilot with a lifelong interest in aviation history. He served for four years as Managing Editor of the World War I aviation journal 'Over the Front' and is an eight-time winner of the League of World War I Aviation Historians' Hooper Award for writing and editorial excellence.  Klappentext Ever since the caveman gazed longingly at the winged creatures above him, mankind has been enamored with the idea of flight-of just taking off and soaring away. Steven A. Ruffin celebrates that spirit, that sense of wonder, with Aviation's Most WantedTM: The Top 10 Book of Winged Wonders, Lucky Landings, and Other Aerial Oddities. With dozens of top-ten lists focusing on notable flights, memorable planes, famous and infamous aviators, aircraft combat, air travel-even space travel-and so much more, Ruffin provides a treasure trove of fun facts and amazing anecdotes celebrating the world's love affair with flight, plus the hurt that accompanies any deep love. Zusammenfassung Ever since the caveman gazed longingly at the winged creatures above him, mankind has been enamoured with the idea of flight—of just taking off and soaring away. Steven A. Ruffin celebrates that spirit, that sense of wonder, with “Aviation’s Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of Winged Wonders, Lucky Landings, and Other Aerial Oddities”.

Product details

• Authors: Steven A Ruffin, Steven A. Ruffin
• Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2005
• EAN: 9781574886740
• ISBN: 978-1-57488-674-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Most Wanted; Most Wanted (TM); Most Wanted (Potomac); Most Wanted (TM)
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Aircraft, space travel; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Aviation and space engineering