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BL
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| Record Number
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986845
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b741215
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| Main Entry
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Pascoe, David,1965-
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| Title & Author
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Aircraft /\ David Pascoe.
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| Publication Statement
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London :: Reaktion,, 2003.
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| Series Statement
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Objekt
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (240 pages) :: illustrations (some color), portraits
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| ISBN
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1861894686
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: 9781861894687
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1861891636
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-234) and index.
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| Contents
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Aircraft Cover page; Imprint page; Contents; Preface; 1 Flight Engineering; 2 Conquests of the Air; 3 Silver Bullets; 4 Model Planes; References; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photographic Acknowledgements; Index.
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| Abstract
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In Aircraft, David Pascoe offers a startling new account of the form of the airplane, an object that, in the course of a hundred years, has developed from a flimsy contraption of wood, wire and canvas into a machine compounded of exotic materials whose wings can touch the edges of space.
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| Subject
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Airplanes-- History.
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Airplanes-- Social aspects.
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Avions-- Aspect social.
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Avions-- Histoire.
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Airplanes.
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING-- Aeronautics Astronautics.
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TRANSPORTATION-- Aviation-- Commercial.
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| Dewey Classification
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387.7309
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| LC Classification
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TL670.3.P37 2003eb
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