- 1986 first edition. 231 pages.
- Published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang Inc. New York
- Hardcover with dust jacket. Blue boards.
- Good plus condition. Some wear & tear to dust jacket. Signed by author with inscription, dated 18/4/86.
Illustrated and Indexed. Walter J. Boyne - Director of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution.
Briefly on December 17, 1903, Orville Wright skipped the bounds of earth in an airplane made of wood and fabric, a plan we would later call the Kitty Hawk Flyer. In the few brief secons he was airborne the world was changed, and the change continues today.
In The Leading Edge the author presents a fascinating retrospective of the leading edges in aviation technology. He tells the story of the pivotal developments in materials and design that have pushed the reality of flight beyond our wildest expectations.
His story is also one of the inventors, of ouis Bleriot's historic flight across the English Channel, of Howard Hughes's dreams of wining the Thompson Trophy, of Chuck Yeager beraking the sound barrier, of the Concorde and so much more.
An unfolding drama of success and failure, of the excitement of inventors sat work on their creations, of the lure and lust for faster, lighter, stronger airplanes, The Leading Edge is a truly remarkable history of the new ideas in aviation technology and the gains we have realised because of them.
Illustrated throughout with striking asnd evocative photographs - most in full colour and many nevery before published.
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