Aircraft / / David Pascoe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910145257803321
• Autore: Pascoe David <1965->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Reaktion, 2003
• ISBN: 1-282-27124-5; 9786612271243; 1-86189-468-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Collana: Objekt
• Disciplina: 387.7309
• Soggetti: Airplanes - History; Airplanes - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Aircraft Cover page; Imprint page; Contents; Preface; 1 Flight Engineering; 2 Conquests of the Air; 3 Silver Bullets; 4 Model Planes; References; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photographic Acknowledgements; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In Aircraft, David Pascoe offers a startling new account of the form of the airplane, an object that, in the course of a hundred years, has developed from a flimsy contraption of wood, wire and canvas into a machine compounded of exotic materials whose wings can touch the edges of space.