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Publication Date
2003-10-07
ISBN
9781400049127
Book Title
Flyers : in Search of Wilbur and Orville Wright
Item Length
8.5 in
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
Publication Year
2003
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
Noah Adams
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Transportation
Topic
Aviation / History, General, Science & Technology
Item Width
5.7 in
Item Weight
13.4 Oz
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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It takes only nineteen seconds to walk the distance of the first powered flight. But when I was there the wind was up and cold on my face, and I felt as if I'd entered the black-and-white photograph I'd been seeing all my life. The sand is light gray, there's a spill of surf in the distance. Wilbur, running at the right of the plane, and Orville, the pilot, are in dark suits. The propellers blur against the sky as the machine rises. . . ."So begins Noah Adams's adventure in search of Wilbur and Orville Wright, a journey that takes him across the country as he follows in the footsteps of the famous brothers in an attempt to know them more deeply, not just as inventors and pilots but as individuals as well.Adams, one of our most distinctive and talented storytellers, traveled thousands of miles and interviewed scores of experts and individuals to piece together his story. He finds a local boat captain to ferry him to Kitty Hawk, along the same route that Wilbur took in 1900, and spends several days talking with descendants of the families who first welcomed the Wright brothers a century ago and helped them conduct their gliding experiments. To experience first-hand the thrill of being in the air, Adams himself goes hang-gliding in the Outer Banks. To understand the aerodynamics of lift and drag and how the famous 1903 plane was constructed, he visits Ken Hyde, a Virginia pilot and vintage aircraft builder who is creating the world's most accurate reproduction of the 1903 Wright Flyer. Adams goes to the prop shop and handles the tools and materials that the Wrights used to build their gliders and planes, and later he visits the wind tunnel at Langley Air Force Base where Hyde's reproduction was tested for the first time.He also travels to France to visit the old racetrack at Le Mans where Wilbur startled the European aviation community with his demonstration flights in 1908, and he spends a few days at Wisconsin's Oshkosh Fly-in, where builders of experimental aircraft and owners of vintage planes gather every year to dazzle the crowds. Adams himself takes to the air in a restored Ford Tri-Motor, America's first airliner, which took its maiden flight seventy years ago.In Adams's book we encounter the Wright brothers in a way that no writer has introduced them before. Through the lens of his own experiences as well as original reporting, letters, diaries, and other primary source material, he helps us understand the talent and intensity of the brothers and their family, including the fascinating, deeply complex, and at times tragic bond between Orville and Katharine, his younger sister.The Flyers is a wonderfully rich narrative that brings an unprecedented spirit of immediacy to one of history's most dramatic stories.

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Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1400049121
ISBN-13
9781400049127
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features

Book Title
Flyers : in Search of Wilbur and Orville Wright
Author
Noah Adams
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Aviation / History, General, Science & Technology
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Transportation
Number of Pages
240 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Item Weight
13.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Tl540.W7a64 2003
Copyright Date
2003
Lccn
2003-015011
Dewey Decimal
629.13/0092/273 B
Dewey Edition
22

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