Kamis, 29 Juni 2017

Aviation History Book Review: Flying Carpets, Flying Wings

Flying Carpets, Flying Wings: The Biography of Moye W. Stephens by Barbara H. Schultz, Little Buttes Publishing, Lancaster, Calif., 2012, $24.95. Moye Stephens was emblematic of aviation’s Golden Age, the astonishing technological transition from the powered kites of early flight to the powerful warbirds and long-distance aerial haulers of World War II. One of the …

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