Conquistadors of the Sky - A History of Aviation in Latin America

Informationen zum Autor Dan Hagedorn , senior curator with the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field in Seattle and former adjunct curator for Latin American Aviation for the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institution, is the author of fourteen previous books including Air Arsenal North America . Klappentext Coinciding with the opening of a new permanent exhibit, America by Air, at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, "Conquistadors of the Sky" celebrates the aviation achievements of twenty-one Latin American nations over the last 100 years--making this chronicle of heroic ventures and epic flights the best reference available on the subject. This volume was published in cooperation with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Zusammenfassung Heralded by Brazilians as the 'Father of Flight'! Alberto Santos-Dumont made the first of several spectacular flights in his lighter-than-air dirigible in France in 1901! two years before the Wright brothers' first fixed-wing flight in North Carolina. This illustrated book tells their story.

Product details

• Authors: Dan Hagedorn
• Publisher: University Press Of Florida
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.05.2010
• EAN: 9780813035093
• ISBN: 978-0-8130-3509-3
• No. of pages: 616
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Aircraft, space travel; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Aviation and space engineering; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous