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The Epic of Flight
The Aeronauts
Chronicles the history of ballooning from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, describing the principles of balloon flight and looking at the uses of balloons for travel, warfare, and recreation
176 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1980
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April 17, 2012
Once again reading through the Time/Life books I bought as an aviation obsessed kid but mostly skimmed/read the sidebars. This one I shunned as a kid because, hey, balloons, not warplanes. But reading it now it was one of the more interesting entries in the series, especially having seen some of the "weather balloons" that UFO sightings were blamed on-they're actually pretty funky looking, probably are responsible for many of them. The varied eras covered make this one of the more interesting "Epic of Flight" books.
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