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Unconditional Satisfaction GuaranteeNo Shipping Fees Above 302 Months to Decide. Returns Simplified.Catalog of the aeroplanes of the nearly 700 French builders who worked before the onset of WWI.
Most of these aeroplanes flewsome did notsome were never even finishedbut 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 Arienne; readers are invited to enter the Grand Palais, as they might have in 1908 or 1909, to enjoy these marvelous aircraft.[AuthorName]By Leonard E. Opdycke[/AuthorName][AuthorBio][/AuthorBio][NumIllustration]over 840 b/w photographs, line drawings[/NumIllustration][CoAuthor][/CoAuthor][SubTitle][/SubTitle][ColorPattern]over 840 b/w photographs, line drawings[/ColorPattern]
