Phantoms of the Skies: The Lost History of Aviation from Antiquity to the Wright Brothers

by Chuck Davis and J. Allan Danelek

It has been traditional to teach school children that Christopher Columbus discovered America, that Charles Lindbergh was the first man to fly across the Atlantic, and that the Wright Brother's invented the airplane. Time has since taught us that the first Europeans to touch foot on the continent of North America were the Vikings and that Lindbergh was the 85th man to cross the Atlantic by air. Would it be any more remarkable to learn, then, that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935487388
• ISBN13: 9781935487388
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 10.9"