To conquer the air the Wright Brothers and the great race for flight
"For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in severity and I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life." So wrote a quiet young Ohioan in 1900, one in an ancient line of men who had wanted to fly, me...
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Decoration Day, 1899
- "Edge of wonder"
- "Slight possibility"
- "Some practical experiments"
- "Truth and error intimately mixed"
- "Possibility of exactness"
- "Thousand glides"
- "Our turn to throw"
- Interlude
- "What hath God wrought?"
- "Clean air of the heavens"
- "Flying machine at anchor"
- "World of trouble"
- "Light on glory's plume"
- "Greatest courage and achievements"
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Note on sources
- Index.
