Wilbur Wright's flights in France

Stanley W. Kandebo, Dawne Dewey

84 pages, parution le 20/10/2003

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Fly to another time...

Imagine living in Le Mans, France in 1908. It has been just two short years since the great Santos-Dumont made his first tentative hops in a heavier-than-air flying machine, and aircraft can still barely travel a mile or fly in a closed circle. Yet a determined American has traveled by ship and train to your countryside, importing a construction of canvas and wood, powered by a 30-hp motor. That American, Wilbur Wright, has been telling newspapers for years that his aircraft can fly for miles, and that his ability to control his ship is far beyond those capabilities exhibited by French aviators. But Wright has never flown publicly, nor has he let anyone, outside of family and a few friends and acquaintances, see his ship.

If you lived anywhere near Le Mans in those summer and fall days of 1908, like most of your neighbors, you would have hopped on your bicycle or climbed into your horse-drawn wagon, or in rare cases, cranked up your automobile, and gone to see for yourself.

What you would have seen-and been one of the first in the world to see -- is the wonder of manned, controlled, sustained, powered flight, the marvel created by the Wright Brothers that shaped the Twentieth Century.

The thrill of that experience is what this book is all about.

Introduction
Photo album of Léon Bollée
Notes

L'auteur - Stanley W. Kandebo

Stanley W. Kandebo is Assistant Managing Editor for Technology at McGraw-Hill's Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine. He has spent nearly twenty years as a reporter covering aerospace and defense issues. Educated as an engineer at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and the University of Pennsylvania, he spent his early career as a design engineer in the aerospace industry, working on a number of weapons projects, including the Harpoon and Tomahawk cruise missile programs. He is an avid admirer of the Wrights and a serious collector of aerospace autograph and manuscript material.

L'auteur - Dawne Dewey

Dawne Dewey is Head of Special Collections and Archives for the Wright State University Libraries in Dayton, Ohio, and principal curator of the Wright Brothers Collection and other aviation history collections housed there. Ms. Dewey has served as consultant on a number of Wright Brothers projects, exhibitions, and movies, and was the editor of the Bishop Milton Wright Diaries published in 2000. She holds a master's degree in Public History from Wright State University, where she also teaches archival theory and practice in the graduate program.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Mc Graw Hill
Auteur(s)	Stanley W. Kandebo, Dawne Dewey
Parution	20/10/2003
Nb. de pages	84
Format	34,5 x 28,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1040g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780071427395
ISBN13	978-0-07-142739-5