{"product_id":"the-book-of-aircraft-9781917259774","title":"The Book of Aircraft","description":"\u003cb\u003e“The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space on the infinite highway of the air.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilbur Wright\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe twentieth century was still in its infancy when the Wright Brothers famously changed the course of human history in late 1903 when they achieved the elusive first ever powered flight. Their “Wright Flyer” was airborne for just 12 seconds, but it was long enough to change everything.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This comprehensive volume celebrates the incredible and rapid evolution of the magnificent flying machines that have eagerly followed in the slipstream of the “Flyer” over the intervening century and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From the WWI era of the inimitable Sopwith Camel and feared Fokker D.VII to their WWII successors, the formidable Messerschmitt Bf 109 and iconic Spitfire, and into a new commercial age dominated by Lockheed, Boeing and Airbus, the incredible advance in aircraft technology since the 1900s has been inexorable. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Featuring incredible photography that captures the majesty and might of the world’s most revered planes, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Aircraft \u003c\/i\u003eis the ultimate tribute to our collective fascination with flight and ongoing obsession with the “infinite highway of the air”\n\n","brand":"Iain Spragg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48773514002683,"sku":"9781917259774","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_d420ac7d-59b5-459e-a281-74e4bfe7e1ab.jpg?v=1776874947","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-book-of-aircraft-9781917259774","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}