The Leading Edge

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Briefly, on December 17, 1903, Orville Wright skipped the bounds of earth in on airplane made of wood and fabric, a plane we would later call the Kitty Hawk Flyer. In the few brief seconds he was airborne the world was changed, and the change continues today.
Over the more than eighty years since, aviation has treated the world to a never-ending stream of new ideas and new inventions. In The Leading Edge Walter J. Boyne—Director of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution—presents a fascinating retrospective of the leading edges in aviation technology. He tells the story of the pivotal developments in materials and design that have pushed the reality of flight beyond our wildest expectations.
His story is also one of the inventors, who shore with avant-garde artists o total dedication to their work and a complete rejection of the naysayers. it is the story of Louis Blihot's historic flight across the English Channel, of Howard Hughes's dreams of... Tovább

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Briefly, on December 17, 1903, Orville Wright skipped the bounds of earth in on airplane made of wood and fabric, a plane we would later call the Kitty Hawk Flyer. In the few brief seconds he was airborne the world was changed, and the change continues today.
Over the more than eighty years since, aviation has treated the world to a never-ending stream of new ideas and new inventions. In The Leading Edge Walter J. Boyne—Director of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution—presents a fascinating retrospective of the leading edges in aviation technology. He tells the story of the pivotal developments in materials and design that have pushed the reality of flight beyond our wildest expectations.
His story is also one of the inventors, who shore with avant-garde artists o total dedication to their work and a complete rejection of the naysayers. it is the story of Louis Blihot's historic flight across the English Channel, of Howard Hughes's dreams of winning the Thompson Trophy, of Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier in Glamorous Glennis, of the hundreds of nameless engineers working in England and France to bring the Concorde to life. And whether examining World War I Junkers or the effects of computer-aided drafting systems of modern jet design, Boyne makes clear that each advance has a beauty of its own, an inherent logic that qualifies it not only as an invention of genius but also as a work of/art.
An unfolding drama of success and failure, of the excitement of inventors at work on their creations, of the lure and lust for faster, lighter, stronger airplanes, The Leading Edge is a truly remarkable history of the new ideas in aviation technology and the gains we have realized because of them.
Illustrated throughout with striking and evocative photographs—most in full colour and many never before published—by some of the country's leading photographers and from collections across the globe. Vissza