| Author | Wallhauser, Henry T.
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| Title | Pioneers of flight / by Henry T. Wallhauser ; illustrations by Jack Woodson.
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| Published | [Maplewood, N.J.] : Hammond, c1969.
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| Description | 93 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cm
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| General Note | Includes index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: 1903, the pivotal year -- The beginnings -- The challengers -- The daredevils -- Growing pains -- Taste of battle -- Lafayette Escadrille -- America joins the fight -- Too little too late -- Across the Atlantic -- Record makers -- Brainstorming -- Airplane in the ascendancy -- Flight of flights -- Unlimited horizons.
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| Summary Note | Summary: Briefly traces the pioneering experiments that led to the first flight by the Wright brothers and describes subsequent landmarks in aviation history up to Lindbergh's crossing of the Atlantic in 1927.
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| Subjects | Aeronautics -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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| Other Authors | Woodson, Jack, illustrator.
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| LC Card Number | 72-83278 |
| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: TL 547 W199 1969
CA-1903692: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 77015] |
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