First Flight; The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [6], 394 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Minor DJ wear. Minor edge wear. Thomas A. Heppenheimer (Jan. 1, 1947- Sept. 9, 2015) was a major space advocate and researcher in planetary science, aerospace engineering, and celestial mechanics. His books recommended by the National Space Society. Thomas A. Heppenheimer held a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan, and was an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He held research fellowships in planetary science at California Institute of Technology and at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany. He had been a free-lance writer since 1978. He has written extensively on aerospace, and the history of technology. He was a frequent contributor to American Heritage and its affiliated publications, and to Air & Space. He had written 300 published articles for various publications. More