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Birdmen the Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the battle to control the skies

"The feud between this nation's great air pioneers, the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, was a collision of unyielding and profoundly American personalities. On one side, a pair of tenacious siblings who together had solved the centuries-old riddle of powered, heavier-than-air flight. On the other...

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Main Author: Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ballantine Books, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Aeronautics > United States > History.
Wright, Wilbur, > 1867-1912.
Wright, Orville, > 1871-1948.
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, > 1878-1930.
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Table of Contents:
  • Fulcrum
  • Highway in the sky
  • Men in the dunes
  • To kitty hawk
  • Sophomore slump
  • Gas bag
  • Where no man had gone before
  • Patent pioneering
  • The vagaries of the marketplace
  • The inexorable progression of knowledge
  • The first brazilian aloft
  • Langley's legacy
  • Closing fast
  • Vindication
  • Orville and selfridge
  • The toast of France
  • Trading punches
  • Best-laid plans
  • Bowing to the inevitable
  • Team sports
  • Mavericks
  • Faster, steeper, higher
  • War birds
  • Owning the sky
  • The wages of righteousness
  • The romance of death
  • A reluctant steward
  • A wisp of victory
  • The grip of the spotlight
  • The death of innocence.

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