Race through the Skies: The Week the World Learned to Fly
By Martin W. Sandler
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By Martin W. Sandler
Hardcover edition
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Imprint Bloomsbury USA ISBN9781547603442
Race through the Skies: The Week the World Learned to Fly
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In 1903, the Wright brothers made three brief flights, and no one was there to watch them. Six years later, Wilbur Wright traveled to Europe to evangelicize about aviation and raise money for patents--and the world got aviation fever. That summer, a group of champagne companies organized the first ever international air meet. They knew they could throw a great party and sell a lot of champagne. They didn’t know that this single week would change the course of aviation history.
Through remarkable photographs, firsthand accounts, and lively narrative, Marty Sandler tells the story of this first international air meet, marking the public introduction of flight.
Through remarkable photographs, firsthand accounts, and lively narrative, Marty Sandler tells the story of this first international air meet, marking the public introduction of flight.
“Postscript: What Happened to the Heroes of Rheims?.” “For
Reading, Surfing, and Visiting.” Sources. Index. Full-color
photographs.
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