On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright soared into history
during a twelve-second flight on a secluded North Carolina beach.
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first flight, these
essays chart the central role that aviation played in
twentieth-century history and capture the spirit of innovation and
adventure that has characterized the history of flight.
The contributors, all leading aerospace historians, consider
four broad themes relating to the development of flight technology:
innovation and the technology of flight, civil aeronautics and
government policy, aerial warfare, and aviation in the American
imagination. Through their attention to the political, economic,
military, and cultural history of flight, the authors establish
that the Wrights' invention--and all that followed in both air and
space--was one of the most significant technologies of the
twentieth century, fundamentally reshaping our world.
Supported by the First Flight Centenial Commission
The contributors are Janet R. Daly Bednarek, Tami Davis Biddle,
Roger E. Bilstein, Hans-Joachim Braun, David T. Courtright, Anne
Collins Goodyear, Roger D. Launius, William M. Leary, David D. Lee,
W. David Lewis, John H. Morrow, Dominick A. Pisano, and A. Timothy
Warneck.
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