The Heritage of Kitty HawkW.W. Norton, 1962 - 211 էջ The story of the early aviation pioneers and their accomplishments from the beginnings until World War 1. |
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... effort is noteworthy , because the latter had patented his " aeroplane , " and sought , with visible lack of suc- cess , to sell £ 2,000 worth of stock in the Aerial Steam Transit Com- pany , which was to build and operate his machines ...
... effort is noteworthy , because the latter had patented his " aeroplane , " and sought , with visible lack of suc- cess , to sell £ 2,000 worth of stock in the Aerial Steam Transit Com- pany , which was to build and operate his machines ...
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... effort had sapped his strength ; his physician counseled that a resumption of similarly concentrated thought and vigorous effort would shorten materially his life . Finally , the problems involved in scaling up to man - carrying size an ...
... effort had sapped his strength ; his physician counseled that a resumption of similarly concentrated thought and vigorous effort would shorten materially his life . Finally , the problems involved in scaling up to man - carrying size an ...
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... efforts of Wilbur and Orville Wright by more than four years , the manner in which it was undertaken and the location of the effort caused it to be de- scribed as the first public flight by an airplane in America . Rather than attempt ...
... efforts of Wilbur and Orville Wright by more than four years , the manner in which it was undertaken and the location of the effort caused it to be de- scribed as the first public flight by an airplane in America . Rather than attempt ...
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The Dreamers | 15 |
The Early Experimenters | 21 |
The Bird Men | 29 |
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