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O'Brien, Patrick , O'Brien, Patrick

Fantastic Flights: One Hundred Years of Flying on the Edge

40 pp. | Walker | July, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-8027-8880-7 $$17.95 | Library ISBN 0-8027-8881-5 $$18.85
(3) K-3 This informative, easy-to-read book covers aviation history from Otto Lilienthal's human-powered gliders in the 1890s to the first nonstop flight around the world in 1986 to the 1997 Mars Pathfinder expedition. The brief, clear, and accurate text is accompanied by full-page paintings of the aircraft involved in these landmark twentieth-century flights and sidebars illustrating physical features and statistics. Bib.
Reviewer: Jack Forman

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