[ad491] ^Full% @Download# Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955: Volume 1: Military Flying Services in Arab Countries, 1909-1918 - David C Nicolle !PDF~ Online

At a time when multiple wars are raging across much of the Middle East, it is almost forgotten that it was Abu al-Qasim Abbas ibn Firnas ibn Wirdas at-Takurni - an Andalusian inventor, physician and engineer - who was the first person to undertake experiments in flying with any degree of success. That was back in the 9th Century A.D. Nigh on a thousand years later the Arab