Airships. From Leonardo da Vinci's Projects to the Airplanes of the Future

From the books of the series "Super Technology and Super Transport" - with stunning unfolding illustrations and interesting informative text - you will learn a lot about the most modern, powerful, fast, and useful machines, as well as be able... to examine them in detail in huge realistic pictures.
This book is simply a small encyclopedia of flying vehicles, a kind of guide to the history of aviation. A man has dreamed of soaring into the sky since ancient times; for us, this dream has become a reality, but the path to its embodiment was long and thorny. How many discoveries and experiments had to be made to take to the air! What machines roamed the skies before the modern liners and fighters? Who were the first passengers of the hot air balloon? What is an ornithopter and a rotorcraft? You will learn all this from our book.