Taking Flight Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War

Author of numerous award-winning books and formerly The U.S. Air Force Historian, Richard Hallion teaches widely at American and foreign universities and defense colleges, most recently at the U.S. Army War College and at the Smithsonian Institution as the Charles A. Lindbergh Visiting Professor of Aerospace History. He has also been a Distinguished Lecturer, and is a Life Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Hallion has gained flying experience as a mission observer in a wide range of civil and military aircraft, served as a NASA historian, and in 1974, joined the Smithsonian Institution as one of the founding curators of the National Air and Space MuseumHallion, Richard is the author of 'Taking Flight Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War', published 2003 under ISBN 9780195160352 and ISBN 0195160355.