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First to Fly

2010-08 Juvenile Nonfiction
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Release : 2010-08
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 524/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis First to Fly by : Peter Busby

Download or read book First to Fly written by Peter Busby. This book was released on 2010-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an inspiring text, original paintings, period photographs, and detailed diagrams, the story of Orville and Wilbur Wright is recreated, from their earliest challenges to their final triumph in 1903--building the plane that would change the world.

First to Fly

2015-06-02 History
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Release : 2015-06-02
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 38X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis First to Fly by : Charles Bracelen Flood

Download or read book First to Fly written by Charles Bracelen Flood. This book was released on 2015-06-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The compelling story of the squadron of adventurous young American pilots who were among the first to engage in air combat.” —Tampa Bay Times In First to Fly, lauded historian Charles Bracelen Flood draws on rarely seen primary sources to tell the story of the daredevil Americans of the Lafayette Escadrille, who flew in French planes, wore French uniforms, and showed the world an American brand of heroism before the United States entered the Great War. As citizens of a neutral nation from 1914 to early 1917, Americans were prohibited from serving in a foreign army, but many brave young souls soon made their way into European battle zones. It was partly from the ranks of the French Foreign Legion, and with the sponsorship of an expat American surgeon and a Vanderbilt, that the Lafayette Escadrille was formed in 1916 as the first and only all-American squadron in the French Air Service. Flying rudimentary planes, against one-in-three odds of being killed, these fearless young men gathered reconnaissance and shot down enemy aircraft, participated in the Battle of Verdun and faced off with the Red Baron, dueling across the war-torn skies like modern knights on horseback. “First to Fly shows us that there was something noble and honorable about the Escadrille, men who did not turn against their own country but put their lives up to fight for a cause, not because they had to but because it was the right thing to do.” —The Wall Street Journal

To Fly

2002 Juvenile Nonfiction
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Release : 2002
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 475/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis To Fly by : Wendie C. Old

Download or read book To Fly written by Wendie C. Old. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the work that the two Wright brothers did together to develop the first machine-powered aircraft.

The Wright Brothers

2015-05-05 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2015-05-05
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 763/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Wright Brothers by : David McCullough

Download or read book The Wright Brothers written by David McCullough. This book was released on 2015-05-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that the age of flight had begun, with the first powered machine carrying a pilot. Orville and Wilbur Wright were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity. When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education and little money never stopped them in their mission to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off, they risked being killed. In this “enjoyable, fast-paced tale” (The Economist), master historian David McCullough “shows as never before how two Ohio boys from a remarkable family taught the world to fly” (The Washington Post) and “captures the marvel of what the Wrights accomplished” (The Wall Street Journal). He draws on the extensive Wright family papers to profile not only the brothers but their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them. Essential reading, this is “a story of timeless importance, told with uncommon empathy and fluency…about what might be the most astonishing feat mankind has ever accomplished…The Wright Brothers soars” (The New York Times Book Review).

Wings of Madness

2003 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2003
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 680/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Wings of Madness by : Paul Hoffman

Download or read book Wings of Madness written by Paul Hoffman. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By the turn of the century, Santos-Dumont had moved to Paris. Soon, the dashing and impeccably dressed aeronaut was barhopping around the city in a one-man dirigible he invented, circling above crowds and crashing into rooftops. Eventually, he would join the world-wide competition to build the first true airplane. Once he succeeded, the press hailed him as the man who had conquered the air. (Because the Wright brothers worked in near secrecy, word of their first flights had not widely reached Europe when Santos-Dumon took to the skies.) His picture appeared on cigar boxes and dinner plates and he dined regularly with the Cartiers, the Rothschilds, and the Roosevelts, hosting "aerial dinners" in which his guests ate at an elevated table so they could imagine how it felt to be above the world." "But all would change after Santos-Dumont witnessed the destructive capacity of flying machines in World War I."--BOOK JACKET.

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