FRENCH AEROPLANES BEFORE THE GREAT WAR by Leonard E. Opdycke 1999

FRENCH AEROPLANES BEFORE THE GREAT WAR

by Leonard E. Opdycke

DESCRIPTION
ISBN: 9780764307522
Format: large hardcover with dust jacket (heavy)
Published: Schiffer Miltary History 1999
Size (mm): 225 w x 290 h x 30 d
Pages: 288
SKU: A4M/2505/0613/B926

ABOUT
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 Aérienne; readers are invited to enter the Grand Palais, as they might have in 1908 or 1909, to enjoy these marvelous aircraft.

Illustrated throughout with monochrome images, decorated end papers.

CONDITION
Immaculate with only light wear on covers.

REMARKS
Scarce