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Take me out to the airfield! Tell me all about planes! Who invented them? How was it done? I want to know who flew the first one...
The answers to these—and most other—questions an inquisitive child reader might ask about man's miraculous entry into the age of flight are simply and clearly set forth in this innovative picture-book biography of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
How two young American brothers from Dayton, Ohio, accomplished a feat of investive genius that had long eluded the efforts of far better-educated men is a true-life tale more inspiring and suspenseful than any fiction.
From the moment their father presented them with a primitive flying toy in 1878 until they succeeded, at last, in launching their own heavier-than-air machine at Kitty Hawk in 1903, the Wright brothers dreamt only of the possibility of manned flight.
Their awesome achievement is here set forth in easily understood words and memorable illustrations by a gifted picture-book artist.
—from the dust jacket
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