First flight the Wright Brothers and the invention of the airplane Tom D. Crouch ; foreword by John Glenn.
Series Handbook (United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications) ; 159.Detalles de publicación: Washington, D.C. Produced by the Division of Publications, Harpers Ferry Center National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior 2002.Descripción: 116p. ill. (some col.) 21cmISBN:- 0912627719 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 629.13/0092/273 B 21
- TL540.W7 C78 2002
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First Flight nbsp; This compact National Parks Service Handbook describes the lives of America's first pilots, the Wright brothers, and their invention of the first successful heavier-than-air-machine--the airplane. In addition to their personal history, the book describes sites where the brothers conducted their experiments, such as Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.nbsp; It also describes their development of the first "practical" airplane-the 1905 Wright Flyer III, preserved today at the Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Huffman Prairie Flying Field in Dayton, Ohio.nbsp; Illustrations tracing the Wrights' progress, maps, and a fold-out chart depicting the 1903 Wright Flyer and the principles of flight make this publication an indispensable guide to the Wright brothers' story.nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; nbsp;
"Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Ohio, Wright Brothers National Memorial, North Carolina."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Foreword
- Introduction
- A World Transformed Aviation Chronology
- A Century of Flight Opening the Skies
- The Wright Family of Dayton Learning to Fly Perfecting the Airplane
- Related Sites
- Further Reading
- Index
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Tom D. Crouch is an aeronautics historian and curator. Crouch attended Ohio University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1966. He also attended Miami University and received a Master of Arts degree in history there in 1968. He later earned a Ph.D in history from the Ohio State University in 1976. In 2001 the Wright State University awarded him with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.Crouch is the author books and many articles, primarily on topics related to the history of flight technology. Crouch was awarded a 1989 Christopher Award for his book The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright. In 2005 he won the AIAA Gardner-Lasser Literature Prize for the book Wings: A History of Aviation From Kites to the Space Age.
(Bowker Author Biography)