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"From National Book Award winner Martin W. Sandler, a fascinating look at the week that brought aviation fever to the world. In 1903, the Wright brothers made three brief flights, and no one was there to watch them ars later, Wilbur Wright traveled to Europe to evangelicize about aviation and raise money for patents--and the world got aviation fever. That summer, a group of champagne companies organized the first ever international air meet in Rheims,...
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Examines the lives and achievements of eight pioneers of aviation, including the Montgolfier brothers, inventors of the hot-air balloon; Bessie Coleman, the first African-American female piolet; and Beryl Markham, the first piolet to cross the Atlantic, east to west.
11) The airplane
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The Wright brothers' first twelve seconds of flight set into motion a discovery that would change the world forever. This book explores the factors that led to the development of flight.
12) Flight
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Provides an overview of the principal stages in the history of flight, from animal flight and the first attempts to develop human flight to the present, and describes the invention of the various systems on an airplane and notable aircraft.