Author: London, Joanne M. Gernstein.
Title: Fly now ! : a colorful story of flight from hot air balloon the 777 'Worldliner' : the poster collection of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
Description: Foreword by Herb Kelleher.Washington , D.C. : National Geographic, c2007. Paperback. 191 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - The posters-most of them never before published-feature barnstormers, gliders, and flying boats; the earliest passenger flights, the first luxury-liners, mail carriers, jets, and much more. Spanning a century and a half, they combine the popular art and the commerce of their eras, with both explored in the entertaining, informative text by a longstanding National Air and Space Museum curator. From 19th-century circus impresarios offering rides in gaudy hot-air balloons to the sleek 21st-century airliners, they offer a fascinating illustrated history of flight as it evolved from an exotic realm inhabited only by visionaries and daredevils into our modern world of speedy jets and frequent flyers-no longer extraordinary, perhaps, but still echoing with the exhilarating thrill and glamorous excitement captured here. ISBN 9781426202902.

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