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French Aeroplanes Before the Great War
Contributor(s): Opdycke, Leonard E. (Author)
ISBN: 0764307525     ISBN-13: 9780764307522
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
OUR PRICE:   $53.96  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: February 1999
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BISAC Categories:
- Transportation | Aviation - General
Dewey: 629.133
LCCN: 98087946
Series: Schiffer Military History
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 8.82" W x 11.29" (3.78 lbs) 288 pages
 
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French Aeroplanes Before the Great War is a catalog of the aeroplanes of the nearly 700 French builders who worked before the onset of World War I. Most of these aeroplanes flew - some did not - some were never even finished - but all of them reflect the extraordinary vitality and sense of optimism that powered the aeronautical world before the future of the aeroplane began to become clearer in wartime. If the Wrights had not flown in 1903, one of the early French builders would very quickly have won the laurels for the first flight. Some of the machines appear in these pages probably for the first time in print; others are rarely seen. This collection serves as a kind of super Exposition Internationale de Locomotion A rienne; readers are invited to enter the Grand Palais, as they might have in 1908 or 1909, to enjoy these marvelous aircraft.