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Guinness Book of Flying Blunders (Series in Robotics and Intelligent Systems)
Guinness Book of Flying Blunders - Series in Robotics and Intelligent Systems Author:Geoffrey Regan "The Guinness Book of Flying" takes a fascinating and highly informative look at some of the less glorious moments in the history aerial warfare. While the principal focus of the book is post-1914, the Guinness Book of Flying Blunders also examines the early abortive attempts at manned flight in the Renaissance period as wel... more »l as the first faltering attempts to harness balloons to military purposes in the 18th and 19th centuries.
From the grimly funny tales of the misdesign of the British BE9, a First World War plane whose gunner risked decapitation every time he swung round to fire at the enemy, to the tragedy of the Anglo-American invasion of Sicily in 1943, "The Guinness Book of Flying Blunders" offers a wealth of absorbing narrative and anecdote that is always thought-provoking and often entertaining.« less