Flying Pianos - Charles Spicer

From string-and-canvas deathtraps to sleek metal machines – relive the dawn of British aviation'Gripping, exuberant, racy and deeply researched, here is the amazing tale of the flying machines.' Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family HistoryIn the first few decades of the twentieth century British aviators went from gliding a handful of yards to crossing the Atlantic. Journeying from perilous ‘cotton-and-hope’ prototypes to the Spitfire, Flying Pianos surveys the transformation... Zobrazit více