French Aeroplanes Before the Great War (Schiffer Military History) - Hardcover

Opdycke, Leonard E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0764307525 ISBN 13: 9780764307522

Publisher: Schiffer Military History, 1999

Synopsis

French Aeroplanes Before the Great War is 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Schiffer Military History
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0764307525
• ISBN 13: 9780764307522
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288