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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Spenser, Jay P.     Subjects     Airplanes -- Design and construction -- History.     Aeronautics -- Research -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Spenser, Jay P.       by title:      The airplane : how i...         MARC Display

The airplane : how ideas gave us wings / Jay Spenser. by Spenser, Jay P. New York : Smithsonian Books/Collins, c2008. Subjects Airplanes -- Design and construction -- History.   Aeronautics -- Research -- History. ISBN:  9780061259197 : 0061259195 : Description:  x, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Edition:  1st ed. Contents:  Conception: the thinker and the dreamer -- Birth: Wilbur, Orville, and the world -- Configuration: shapes and ideas -- Fuselage: of drums and dragonflies -- Wings, part I : from box kites to bridges -- Wings, part II : cloud-cutting cantilevers -- Empennage: whale flukes and arrow feathers -- Flight controls: the chariot's reins -- Flight deck: cockpits for aerial ships -- Aero propulsion: prometheus is pushing -- Landing gear: shoes, canoes, and carriage wheels -- Passenger cabin: voyaging aloft -- Systems integration: making flying safer -- Today's state of the art: the Boeing 787 Dreamliner -- Postscript: tomorrow's wings: future air travel technologies. Requests:  0 Summary:  The inside story of how people invented and refined the airplane.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 629.13334 Sp Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waikiki-Kapahulu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 629.13334 Sp Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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