Details relative to famous flights are presented year by year so as to give idea of progress made in airplane performance since Orville Wright's flight Dec. 17, 1903; Gordon Bennett race won by G. H. Curtiss in 1909; first London-Paris attempt in 1910; events are outlined up to speed record of D'Arcy Greig in Supermarine S-5 fitted with Napier Lion engine made on Nov. 4, 1928.
Twenty-five years of famous flights
Aviation
Aviation ; 25 , n 23
1928
14 pages
23 Figs.
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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