'If we knew what it was we would learn, it wouldn’t be research, would it?’ was the title of an ad for Scientific American’s project of an international paper airplane competition. The 20 winners are photographed in full page aeronautical glory followed by a tear-out pattern for imitations. No materials are needed other than the basic one referred to in the dedication — and scissors and infinite doodling type patience. As a school librarian with only two copies of this wildly popular book, I was finally reduced to tearing it up page by page for an eye level wall long display for group reading and a handy supply of tracing paper for pattern copiers. Our airborne climax was the North Hillsborough, California School Paper Airplane Olympics with appropriate contests and flyers, after which we were able to cross the school campus without shuffling ankle deep in aborted and/or terminated flight materials. The school custodian was one of the few associates not turned on by this librarian’s flight of fancy (or reason, depending on your bias).
[Carol Guyton Goodell, Whole Earth Catalog Spring 1969, p.114]

【コンテンツ】
Introduction
Brief Annotated History of Aeronautics
Prologue: In Tribute to Rufus Porter, the Inventor of the Aeroport
Chapter
Appendix 1: Letters
Special Added Chapter: A Fly It Yourself Compendium
Epilogue
etc...

出版年：1967年
言語：英語
ページ数：128ページ
サイズ：23cm×30cm×1cm

【コンディション】
表紙・背表紙・裏表紙に傷みや汚れがあります。内部は概ね良好です。