Josh Spoor (5 results)
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Seller: Naval and Military Press Ltd, Uckfield, United KingdomNaval and Military Press Ltd
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Condition: New. Hardback 229 pages +platesPublished Price £25 âThis well-researched book evocatively conjures the halcyon days of the swashbuckling amateurs who took to the skies in untested contraptions.â â" Sussex LifeShoreham Airport, established in 1910, is the oldest airport in the United Kingdom and the earliest purpose-b…uilt commercial aerodrome in the world. Yet Sussexâs engagement with flight predates it by more than a century: balloonists made landfall at Kingsfold near Horsham in 1785, and experimental military ballooning was under way by 1880.The Dawn of Aviation traces, with rigourous scholarship and lively prose, how successive generations of men and women made Sussex a formative locus in British aeronautical history. The narrative surveys the full spectrum of early flight â" from man-lifting kites and unmanned gliders to the advent of powered, controlled flight in 1908, when Alec Ogilvie piloted a Wright Brothers biplane along the Camber coast â" and situates these local achievements within broader technological and social currents. Copiously researched yet accessible, the book will reward aviation specialists and general readers alike with its careful documentation and engaging sense of place.
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