On Miniature Wings - Model Aircraft of the National Air And Space Museum - Softcover
- PublisherAirlife Publishing Limited
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 1853107360
- ISBN 13 9781853107368
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages304
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ON MINIATURE WINGS : Model Aircraft of the National Air And Space Museum
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Airlife Publishing Limited, Shrewsbury
(1995)
ISBN 10: 1853107360
ISBN 13: 9781853107368
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. This new unread copy is bound in illustrated card covers as issued. The text block is tight white, bright and square. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Providing a brief introduction to the world of model aeroplanes, Thomas J. Dietz then goes on to present a selection of model aircraft from the National Air and Space Museum, at the Smithsonian Institute. Fourteen years before the Wright brothers' famous 1903 flight, Samuel P. Langley, then Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, acquired a model of John Stringfellow's triplane and began the museum's model aircraft collection. Since then the museum's curators and modellers worked to develop what has become one of the finest collections of model aircraft and spacecraft in the world, exhibited today in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. Most of the 3000 models are hidden away in the museum's research and storage areas but this book will take you on a guided tour of some of the collection's highlights, from the simple wooden flying toys of the nineteenth century to a recent ten foot model of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise which took its modeller more than a decade to complete. Containing over 150 full colour photographs the book offers a fact-filled introduction to the miniature world of aeromodelling. Ref PPP 1. Seller Inventory # 029152
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