The Wright Flyers 1899?1916 - The kites, gliders, and aircraft that launched the Air Age - Bok av Dr Richard P. Hallion - Häftad
An authoritative new history and analysis of the Wright Brothers'' pioneering aircraft, from their triumph in 1903, through their string of achievements in the next decade, to their eclipse in the 1910s.Orville and Wilbur Wright, two bicycle-making brothers from Dayton, Ohio, secured their place as the most famous names in aviation history when, on December 17, 1903, they made the first powered, controlled, and sustained heavier-than-air flight. But their success over the cold and windswept Carolina..