Reach for the Skies: Ballooning, Birdmen, and Blasting into SpacePenguin, 28 Apr 2011 - 352 halaman One of the world's most famous business leaders (and a well-known avian fanatic) explores the pioneers of flight. Bestselling author and billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson has always been obsessed with the skies. To promote a new Virgin Airlines route, he became the first man to water ski behind a blimp. His Virgin Galactic venture will soon offer ordinary people the opportunity to experience spaceflight aboard the first commercial spaceliner, SpaceShipTwo. In Reach for the Skies, Branson examines the history of aviation over the last two hundred years, putting the spotlight on trailblazers such as: *Tony Jannus, who made the first ever commercial flight over Tampa Bay, Florida, in 1914. *Leo Valentin, the "bird man" who jumped from 9,000 feet wearing a pair of wooden wings in the 1950s. *Steve Fossett, who broke 130 world records in planes, balloons, and airships. The pioneers of flight-not just the world-famous Wright Brothers, but also lesser known visionaries and dreamers-made it possible for any of us with the desire and the commitment to reach for the skies ourselves. |
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... left behind? We may never know. The desert is riddled with inaccessible canyons. No one who knows the desert is prepared to estimate the number of other wrecks that may be out there. I suppose this is where the book you're holding was.
... left behind? We may never know. The desert is riddled with inaccessible canyons. No one who knows the desert is prepared to estimate the number of other wrecks that may be out there. I suppose this is where the book you're holding was.
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... Never mind the sterling performances and brilliant cast, headlined by James Stewart and Richard Attenborough; I think The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) is one of the most profound and important movies about aviation ever committed to ...
... Never mind the sterling performances and brilliant cast, headlined by James Stewart and Richard Attenborough; I think The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) is one of the most profound and important movies about aviation ever committed to ...
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... never discussed in public. It was unbelievably thin and light and strong. Given what he wanted to use it for, it would have to be: Per reckoned he could get us both across the Atlantic Ocean by balloon. He phoned me in 1986, mere days ...
... never discussed in public. It was unbelievably thin and light and strong. Given what he wanted to use it for, it would have to be: Per reckoned he could get us both across the Atlantic Ocean by balloon. He phoned me in 1986, mere days ...
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... never taking another bloody exam for as long as I lived. And now look where I was: marooned with a teacher! Being shouted at! Again! I learned ballooning the way I've learned everything else in life: by doing it. Robin Batchelor's ...
... never taking another bloody exam for as long as I lived. And now look where I was: marooned with a teacher! Being shouted at! Again! I learned ballooning the way I've learned everything else in life: by doing it. Robin Batchelor's ...
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... never short of a purple phrase or two—writes with genuine passion of the way the balloonist “obtains ... unerring tokens of his approach to the nether limits of the void and infinite gulf that lies beyond him; and I have no doubt, could ...
... never short of a purple phrase or two—writes with genuine passion of the way the balloonist “obtains ... unerring tokens of his approach to the nether limits of the void and infinite gulf that lies beyond him; and I have no doubt, could ...
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three To Fly Is Everything | |
four The Golden Years | |
five A Great River of Air | |
Part Two Up and Away | |
seven Fanning the Flames | |
eight Above the | |
nine Fast Glass | |
ten Back to the Future | |
Epilogue | |
Afterword | |
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