Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
48
Language
English
Published
Feb 16, 2012
Publisher
Cinebook
ISBN-10
1849181004
ISBN-13
9781849181006
Description
This third volume recounts the Wright Brothers, who invented the modern aeroplane. The brothers made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight on 17 December 1903 and, in the two subsequent years, they developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft. Although not the first to build and fly experimental aircraft, the Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed wing flight possible