Pigs Might Fly

[ian.whalley]

Pigs Might Fly - the stories of the early aviation pioneers (http://www.earlyaviationpioneers.com/pmfwelcome.htm)

Not sure if this series of books has been mentioned before.

I have bought Early French Aviators and Early British Aviators and read them. I found them to add some personality to these Pioneers of Aviation.

I would be interested to know of other opinions if you have read them.:)

[joy ride]

New to me, but very much my line of interest. A casual glance shows one area of omission: Ornithopters; this is not a criticism, just an observation! Long regarded as an impossibility and therefore not "aircraft", with modern materials and engineering they have at last flown so I feel their ancestors do have historical merit. Certainly London's Science Museum has a few bits of Frost's Ornithopter on display; slight bias on my part because we are related!

In my experience a lot of people seem to think that there were no working aircraft before the Wright Brothers, and I think the full history of flight is particularly interesting when you study the pioneering work before their time.

I feel a purchase is imminent!

[ian16th]

I feel put out.

I thought that this thread was about Valletta's and Varsity's.

[Stanwell]

The 'Pig' was our (Oz) nickname for the F-111 as well.

[eckhard]

Well 'aardvark' means 'earth pig' in Afrikaans.