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Publish Date
1928
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English
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Aeronautics, Airplanes in art, Flights, History, Pictorial worksShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Flights: unforgettable exploits of the air
1928, Published privately by the Wright Aeronautical Corporation for [blank]
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Table of Contents
The Wright brothers' "Strange Contraption" rises at Kitty Hawk, 1903
Louis Blʹeriot passes the White Cliffs of Dover in May, 1909
Lieut-Commander Albert C. Read nears the Azores in a Navy plane, 1919
Crossing the States in the span of the same sun, Lieutenants Macready & Kelly, 1923
With one beat of his wing, Charles Lindbergh goes to Paris! 1927
To Australia by air: Kingsford-Smith and his companions over Suva, 1928
The conqueror of one pole attempts the other: Commander Byrd, the Antarctic, 1929.
Edition Notes
Brightly colored reproductions of watercolor[?] illustrations (each about 31 x 29 cm.), with captions.
Title from label mounted on front of art-paper portfolio.
Each plate dated: Copyright 1928.
LC Copy 1 in library binding; plates interleaved.
LC Copy 2 has plates laid loose in original portfolio.
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