From Wax Wings to Flying Drones
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Was Keith Harris’s Orville really named after the first-ever flyer?
What exactly is a ‘Spitfire’?
Why did Richard Branson try to cross the Atlantic in a balloon when he owned an airline?
These are the questions that fail to keep proper aeronautical historians awake – but no matter, From Wax Wings to Flying Drones is here to answer them. Chock-full of important stuff like planes, pilots and pioneers such as the Wright brothers, Amelia Earhart and that man off the telly who used to fly on Concorde, this is a book for everyone who’s ever watched a plane in the sky and thought, ‘I wonder what its registration is?’
Norman Ferguson has been interested in aviation all his life. Born into a family of plane-spotters, one grandfather was an anti-aircraft gunner, the other a Blitz ARP warden, and his father was an intercept radar operator in the RAF. Norman was in the ATC and reached the heady heights of champion in Aircraft Recognition in 1982 (Scottish and Northern Ireland area). He has previously written The Little Book of Aviation, 5 Minute History: First World War in the Air and Project Apollo: The Moon Odyssey Explained for The History Press. He lives in Edinburgh.