The Wonder Book of the Air (Introduction By Bernt Balchen, Admiral Byrd's Chief Pilot on His Flight to the South Pole)
Chicago; (1936): John C. Winston Company. First Edition. Large Octavo. Frontispiece, 340 pp. illustrated showing various devises used to attempt flight throughout time. Over 400 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci studied the flight of birds and drew a design for a flying machine much like those of today, but without..... More