The American Flying Boat: An Illustrated HistoryNaval Institute Press, 1979 - 262 pagine First published in 1979, this fully illustrated study includes complete data on all of the Navy's flying boats since 1912. |
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... Hammondsport , New York , at the southern end of Lake Keuka , he was left fatherless at the age of seven . By the time he reached fifteen , he had decided that education was a callous luxury for a capable boy with a widowed mother and a ...
... Hammondsport , New York , at the southern end of Lake Keuka , he was left fatherless at the age of seven . By the time he reached fifteen , he had decided that education was a callous luxury for a capable boy with a widowed mother and a ...
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... Hammondsport , New York , was someone to be reckoned with . Meanwhile , a French marine engineer named Henri Fabre had begun to experiment with the idea of flight from the surface of the water . His first sea- plane , powered by three ...
... Hammondsport , New York , was someone to be reckoned with . Meanwhile , a French marine engineer named Henri Fabre had begun to experiment with the idea of flight from the surface of the water . His first sea- plane , powered by three ...
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... Hammondsport , and he had split his original company into two new organizations , The Curtiss Aeroplane Company and The Curtiss Motor Company . The Navy's ... HAMMONDSPORT 9 ΙΟ THE AMERICAN FLYING BOAT Upon returning to Hammondsport from.
... Hammondsport , and he had split his original company into two new organizations , The Curtiss Aeroplane Company and The Curtiss Motor Company . The Navy's ... HAMMONDSPORT 9 ΙΟ THE AMERICAN FLYING BOAT Upon returning to Hammondsport from.
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CHAPTER THREE The Nancy Boats | 39 |
CHAPTER FOUR The Roaring Twenties | 59 |
CHAPTER EIGHT The Warboats | 141 |
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