Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane

0/5 ( ratings)

First Flight

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. 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. 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.

Language: English

Pages: 116

Format: Paperback

Publisher: National Park Service

Release: December 27, 2002

ISBN: 0912627719

ISBN 13: 9780912627717

First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane

0/5 ( ratings)

First Flight

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. 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. 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.

Language: English

Pages: 116

Format: Paperback

Publisher: National Park Service

Release: December 27, 2002

ISBN: 0912627719

ISBN 13: 9780912627717

More books from John Glenn

John Glenn: A Memoir

Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight

4.1/5 ( ratings)

We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves

Apollo: an Eyewitness Account by Astronaut/Explorer Artist/Moonwalker Alan Bean

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: An Autobiography

4.1/5 ( ratings)

A Journey through Time: Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Die Kreuzritter

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Letters to John Glenn: P.S. I Listened To Your Heartbeat

Liftoff: A Photobiography of John Glenn

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Artifacts of Flight: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Into Orbit:

John Glenn Jr--Debriefed: First thoughts and debriefing from his historic Friendship 7 flight

Project Mercury: Results of the First United States Manned Orbital Space Flight, February 20,1962, Friendship 7 Mission of John Glenn (Mercury-Atlas 6, MA-6), Including Air-to-Ground Transcript

Rate this book!

Write a review?