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Dawn Over Kitty Hawk: The Novel of the Wright Brothers
Dawn Over Kitty Hawk The Novel of the Wright Brothers Author:Walter J. Boyne, Walter Boyne Commemorating 100 years of powered flight, a novel of the two brothers who risked everything to win the race to the skies e know who invented the airplane: Wilbur and Orville Wright. Lost in history are the names of those who, in the closing years of the nineteenth century and the first years of the twentieth, shared that same passion: to develo... more »p the first powered aircraft. Some spent fortunes chasing that dream. Some spent their lives. Men like embittered Augustus Herring, who flew a heavier-than-air machine for several seconds in 1898, and who was not above sabotaging those who mocked him. And the pompous Samuel Langly of the Smith-sonian Institute; backed by the US War Depart-ment, he was believed to be the man most likely to achieve a viable flying machine. Even the legendary American scientist, Alexander Graham Bell, took up the chase. A man of solid practicality and a bishop of the United Brethren Church, Milton Wright did not want his two sons to die in a fool-headed flying machine. The Wright Brothers had a thriving bicycle shop business right there in Dayton, Ohio. He saw no reason for his sons to risk everything on an isolated, North Carolina beach, called Kitty Hawk. But it was in the tiny town of Kitty Hawk where the race to achieve the heavier-than-air flying machine would be won . . . or lost.« less