AircraftPresents the history of flying machines from the simple attempts at the end of the nineteenth century to the supersonic transport and military aircraft of today. |
Contents
The Flying Machines | 6 |
World War I | 21 |
Between the Wars | 30 |
Copyright | |
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ailerons AIR FORCE airbus airplane airships Airways Avro Lancaster balloon Battle of Britain bigger biplane Blériot Boeing British built carry a load Cayley Convair 880 craft crashed cruising speed designed Do-X Douglas DC-3 Douglas DC-7 Douglas World Cruisers drag feet 57 fighter planes fire flew Flight recorders fly faster Flyer flying boats Fokker four engines France Fuel tanks fuselage German giant gines glider Gloster Harrier Gr Hawker heavy bomber Helicopters hour hydrogen jet airliner jet fighters kite land lift Lindbergh Lockheed TriStar machine guns Messerschmitt Messerschmitt Me 109 Messerschmitt Me 262 miles 650 km monoplanes One-Eleven passengers pilot pioneer pounds powered flight propellers push Retractable Right rudder runway Russia's Sabre Santos-Dumont seats speed of sound Spitfire SR-71 Blackbird straight supersonic swing-wing test flight thrust tons of bombs top speed Trident trip turboprop underside United Vickers Vimy warplane World World War II Wright brothers Zeppelin