The Fullness of Wings
Gary Dorsey, Wright Dorsey. Penguin Books, $9.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-14-011485-0
Inspired by the classical legend of Daedalus and Icarus, a group of engineers spent a decade designing a 68-pound plane which, in 1988, made the longest human-powered flight in history from Crete to mainland Greece. ``This is the well-told tale of a dream and its realization,'' said PW. Photos. (Aug.)
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Reviewed on: 07/29/1991
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 350 pages - 978-0-670-82444-1