Explorer's Air Yacht: The Sikorsky S-38 Flying Boat
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (689 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0929521978 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 82 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Capelotti of Penn State University is author or editor of more than a dozen non-fiction histories, including By Airship to the North Pole: an archaeology of human exploration (1999), Sea Drift: Rafting Adventures in the Wake of Kon-Tiki (2001), Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol (2005), The Whaling Expedition of the Ulysses (2010), and Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Arctic expeditions of England's forgotten explorer, Benjamin Leigh Smith (forthcoming in 2013). His theory of archaeological research in space: The Human Archaeology of Space, was published in 2010 by McFarland. A volume of essays and poetry, Gods Meadow: a summer of poems on the edge of Oslo fjord, was published in 2005, and his first novel, Nautilus: a modern sequel to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, has been described by Clive Cussler as "an amazing tale filled with enigmas filled with riddles and dark mysteries. About th
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a fascinating history of an aircraft's development I've been reading and re-reading this book numerous time since I first got hold of a copy. It tells the story of how Igor Sikorsky, America's great golden age aircraft designer developed the S-38 amphibian after a long series of "One-of" aircraft. This was during the 1920s, and the S-38 was the first to enter series production. Numerous air
Historical archaeologist P.J. Truly a fascinating read." . Capelotti of Penn State University is author or editor of more than a dozen non-fiction histories, including By Airship to the North Pole: an archaeology of human exploration (1999), Sea Drift: Rafting Adventures in the Wake of Kon-Tiki (2001), Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol (2005), The Whaling Expedition of the Ulysses<