The last words of the book are: "On July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, another American born and raised in southwestern Ohio, stepped onto the moon, he carried with him, in tribute to the
Wright brothers, a small swatch of the muslin from a wing of their 1903 Flyer" (262).
Author, historian and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, McCullough painstakingly researched the
Wright brothers including delving into a vast collection of private diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and more than one thousand letters from private family correspondence.
Nor was the success of the
Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk a result of pure tinkering.
The
Wright Brothers is merely this: a story, well told, about what might be the most astonishing feat mankind has ever accomplished." DANIEL OKRENT
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Malloy named a German immigrant Gustave Whitehead, who is said to have flown in Connecticut in 1901, two years, four months and three days before the
Wright Brothers' historical liftoff over Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in December of 1903, the New York Daily News reported.
In the first class session for this topic, I started with gathering the class and using the first 15 minutes reading aloud from a book about the
Wright Brothers. While I was not accustomed to extended read-aloud time with the students, I really enjoyed it, and the class listened with rapt attention.
"Wilbur tried to pump up the witnesses to get them to jump up and down and hoot and holler to encourage Orville," says Darrell Collins, the historian at
Wright Brothers National Memorial.
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In the first two decades of aviation following the 1903 flight by the
Wright brothers, it seemed that pursuit of powered flight belonged to this secretive, somewhat odd pair from Dayton, Ohio.
The
Wright Brothers' School of Aviation was very active in Ohio from 1910 to 1916, training 113 men who shared their love of flying.