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9781589639928
Originally published in 1931, this is the story of the lighter-than-air ship. It is not generally known that the first passenger-carrying flight was made in 1783, more than a century before the Wright brothers - or that flying really began with lighter-than-air craft. Benjamin Franklin was one of the witnesses of these earliest flights and wrote home to friends in America about them.Allen, Hugh is the author of 'Story of the Airship', published 2002 under ISBN 9781589639928 and ISBN 1589639928.
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