Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374708622
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This is the fascinating story of the dream of a completely new aircraft, a hybrid of the plane and the rigid airship - huge, wingless, moving slowly through the lower sky. John McPhee chronicles the perhaps unfathomable perseverance of the aircraft's sucessive progenitors