Whirlybirds: A History of the U.S. Helicopter Pioneers

by Jay Spenser

Book Overview

Study of the lives and work of four Americans--Igor Sikorsky, Frank Piasecki, Arthur Young, and Stanley Hiller, Jr.--who, working independently but concurrently, developed the helicopter in the 1940s.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295976993
• ISBN13: 9780295976990
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 508 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.4" x 10.3"