It'll Never Work: Planes And Helicopters

Have you ever wondered what made human beings think they could take to the skies? Starting with Icarus and his wax and feather wings and Leonardo Da Vinci's Flying Machine and primitive helicopter know as the Aerial Screw, It'll Never Work: Aeroplanes and Helicopters explores the history of flying machines, the successes and failures that have led to the comforts of modern passenger flight that we know today.

Each title in this wacky and exciting new series looks at different area of technology and engineering. Taking a chronological approach, each book reveals the pioneering ideas and scientific thinking that enabled their development as well as those that proved to be a dead end. Each double-page spread examines a particular example in depth, pointing out how people learnt from a mistake.