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Greatest Flying Stories Ever Told - Nineteen Amazing Tales From The Sky (Paperback, 2nd Edition)
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Greatest Flying Stories Ever Told - Nineteen Amazing Tales From The Sky (Paperback, 2nd Edition)
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At 10: 35 on the morning of Thursday, December 17, 1903, man got
his wings. On the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville
Wright flew the motorized aircraft he and his brother Wilbur had
constructed to a distance shorter than the length of the wingspan
of today's 747 jet. They made three other flights the same day, the
final lasting 59 seconds for a distance of 852 feet over the
ground. The world would never be the same after that day. Mankind
was finally off the ground in powered flight. And our experiences
in the air would forevermore join the literature of human
endeavors, to be shared by kindred spirits as well as the curious
sorts who have wanted to know, "What was it like up there?"
In The Greatest Flying Stories Ever Told, editor Lamar Underwood
has collected some of the finest writings, both fact and realistic
fiction, to lay bare the drama of human beings coping with the
skills needed to direct their machines through the vastness of the
skies.
With contributions from: Charles Lindbergh, Ernest K. Gann, General
Chuck Yeager, Leo Janos, Tom Wolfe, Mary Lovell, Richard Bach,
Rinker Buck, Diane Ackerman, Derek Robinson, and more.
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