This is the story of how an uneducated Oxford pastry cook became the first Englishman to fly, in a self-built balloon powered by primitive, and potentially lethal, hydrogen. Despite taking off in force 8 gales, crashing into hills and plopping into the Irish Sea, James Sadler became a rare pioneering aeronaut to survive such perilous ascents.
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Publisher
Signal Books LTD
ISBN-13
9781909930018
eBay Product ID (ePID)
179573832
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Man with His Head in the Clouds: James Sadler: the First Englishman to Fly