Fact-filled compendium covers virtually all "firsts" in the history of flight, from the first human being to fly and the first American president to fly to the first woman to command a space shuttle mission.
I manage the social media for the National Airline History Museum in downtown Kansas City, MO. At the NAHM we try to post relevant aviation related "on this day" facts daily. The information contained in this book reinforced some of the history we've found in our own research and provided a great deal more to supplement our own archive. I was able to polish off the entire book while in the air from KC to LA.