![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() The 69-year-old Langley, an astronomer and inventor financed by. 9+) - Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. In late 1903, the Wright brothers and Langley, the Smithsonians director, were racing to be the first to fly a powered aircraft. Like Lincoln (Newbery Medal, 1988), this is familiar but retold in a manner so fresh and immediate that reading it is like discovering the material for the first time. The brothers' own excellent photos, reproduced in a generous size, make an outstanding contribution to both format and authenticity they're well supplemented with appropriate additional photos. ![]() In Freedman's deceptively relaxed narrative, the facts themselves are disarming: e.g., the local postmaster helped to haul the planes back uphill, and the fire brigade came regularly to stand by. It first flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903, with Orville at the controls. It’s a chilly, breezy day in December 1903. Though Freedman doesn't characterize Wilbur and Orville in depth, he does provide telling glimpses of the two unmarried brothers devoting themselves to working enthusiastically and amiably together (``They tinkered and fussed and muttered to themselves from dawn to dusk,'' reported one observer, ``.At no time did I ever hear either of them render a hasty or ill-considered answer.''). The Wright brothers didn’t just fly the first piloted engine-powered airplanethey created a whole new way for us to explore our world. Diagrams and lucid explanations of the principles of flying make the years of tinkering, experimenting, reasoning, and problem-solving even more fascinating. Flight became a major part of World War Two and made planes like the Spitfire famous. Sir - The caption of your Commentary picture (Nature 421, 15 2003) suggests that Orville Wright made the first powered flight in 1903. The development of powered balloons, however, did not lead. ![]() Using illuminating facts and incidents to place the story of this monumental achievement in the history of aeronautics and in the brothers' personal lives, Freedman focuses on the events that led to the first successful flight and on the Wrights' subsequent improvements on their invention. In 1782 the Montgolfier brothers invented a hot air balloon that floated over Paris for 25 minutes. ![]()
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