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Rocket Man - David Darling

Rocket Man

And Other Extraordinary Characters in the History of Flight

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
216 Seiten
2013
Oneworld Publications (Verlag)
978-1-78074-297-7 (ISBN)
CHF 27,90 inkl. MwSt
“Accessible and entertaining.” 
The wonder of flight has long captured the human imagination. In this beguiling history – ranging from the first aircraft to astronauts and beyond – David Darling tells the stories of the true life adventurers whose wonder has translated into bizarre contraptions, magnificent achievements and, sometimes, startling folly.



Discover outrageous attempts to fly like a bird and fall from the edge of space. Meet Napoleonic ballooniste Sophie Blanchard and her daredevil husband; the real “X-Men” who flew the supersonic experimental “X-planes” for the US Air Force; stuntman Lincoln Beachey, looping-the-loop in a pinstripe suit; and, of course, The Rocket Man himself: Yves Rossy, who in 2006 was the first person to cross the English Channel using a jet-pack.



Eccentric and reckless, Darling’s daring cast of dreamers is guaranteed to entertain and inspire.

David Darling is a science writer and astronomer. He is the author of many books, including the bestselling Equations of Eternity, and the popular online resource The Worlds of David Darling. With Dirk Schulze-Makuch he wrote Megacatastrophes!: Nine Strange Ways the World Could End. He lives in Dundee, Scotland.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.10.2013
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Natur / Technik Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe Luftfahrt / Raumfahrt
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-78074-297-5 / 1780742975
ISBN-13 978-1-78074-297-7 / 9781780742977
Zustand Neuware
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