A Very Unreliable History of Aviation
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Product details
- ISBN 9780750999731
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 11 Aug 2022
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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 aircraft for all his life. He was born into a family of planespotters: during World War Two one grandfather was an anti-aircraft gunner, the other an ARP warden during the Blitz. His father was an intercept radar operator in the RAF. He was in the Air Training Corps and reached the heady heights of becoming champion in Aircraft Recognition in 1982 (Scottish and Northern Ireland area). He has been able to draw on much of his knowledge gained over the years to find the interesting stories that will appeal to readers.
