Pioneer Aviators of the World: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Pilots of 100 Countries

by Hart Matthews

Book Overview

Most people recognize Wilbur and Orville Wright as the first in flight, in 1903, on the blustery sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. But few know that the next aviator, a Brazilian, flew almost three years later and was nevertheless widely credited as being the first. Or that a world-famous escapologist, a Hungarian, made the first flights in Australia but afterwards never flew again. Or that in Spain the first public display of a flying...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786438800
• ISBN13: 9780786438808
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher