The hangar
Essays on aircraft and engineering: a dove-shaped monoplane, the jet engine, a square window and the box that records what happened.
- The box that records
A chemist in Melbourne thought that an aircraft should keep a record of what happened, and in the end almost every country agreed.
- Two men and one idea
Frank Whittle in England and Hans von Ohain in Germany developed the jet engine at the same time, without knowing about each other.
- The Comet and its windows
The first jet airliner was fast and beautiful, and in 1954 two of them broke up in the air. The cause was metal fatigue.
- The Etrich Taube
A monoplane with wings shaped like a seed was designed in Austria before the First World War, and it was copied all over Europe.