On December 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur (1867–1912) and Orville (1871–1948) Wright made the first controlled, sustained flights in a power-driven airplane. Relying on the facilities of a bicycle repair shop in Dayton, Ohio, they had constructed, alone, the world's first flying machines. Miracle at Kitty Hawk , an expert selection of 600 out of 10,000 existing letters, allows the reader to follow the excitement of discovery that kept the Wright brothers working on their incredible invention. With little formal education and the slight business background of selling and repairing bicycles, they overcame the problems that defeated the great scientific minds of the day, dealt with large corporations and governments on their own terms, and were recognized by their contemporaries as geniuses. Whether confronting adverse weather conditions, ensuring secrecy, trying to convince the U.S. government that they had actually flown, fighting patent infringements, or responding to public acclaim, these letters reveal the resourcefulness, good humor, and pluck of America's most famous brothers.

Miracle At Kitty Hawk: The Letters Of Wilbur And Orville Wright

Wright, Orville

Wright, Wilbur

History

Da Capo Press

The four survivors of a jetliner crash in Cambodia, an adolescent girl and boy, a Cambodian stewardess, and a former combat pilot, stumble on an abandoned airbase, a treasure, and two skeletons

Carter's Castle

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

St Martins Pr

The Early History of the Airplane

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Franklin Classics

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Second Library Copy. San Diego Air and Space Museum.

The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Ayer Co. Pub

CARTER"S CASTLE

Contemporary

Century

Aeronautics -- United States -- History -- Pictorial works. Wright, Wilbur, -- 1867-1912. Wright, Orville, -- 1871-1948.

Photographs by the Wright Brothers: Prints from the glass negatives in the Library of Congress : a micropublication commemorating the seventy-fifth ... by the Wright Brothers, December 17, 1903

Library of Congress; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.]

1993 Wright Books hardcover, Wilbur Wright (Carter's Castle).On Friday December 15th 1944, three men waited on a misty Bedfordshire Airfield for the C-64 Norseman single-engined plane which would take two of them to Paris. Flown by Flight Officer John Morgan, it came down through low cloud and driving rain, took on board band-leader Major Glenn Miller and a USAAF Staff Officer, lt. Col. Norman F Baessell. Minutes late, the tiny plane scudded down the rain-swept runway into the overcast and disappeared forever. This account was related by the third man, Band Officer Lt. Don Haynes. - www.biblio.com

Glenn Miller Burial File

Wright Books

Preserving The Wright Brothers' Legacy

Preserving The Wright Brothers' Legacy (1999 : Dayton, Ohio)

Bambikidis, Elli

Dayton And Montgomery County Public Library

Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library

The Papers Of Wilbur And Orville Wright, V1, 1899-1905: Including The Chanute-Wright Letters And Other Papers Of Octave Chanute

In Two Volumes. Volume 1, 1899-1905; Volume 2, 1906-1948.

Historical

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