From author Julie Hedgepeth Williams, winner of the 2021 Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History
In 1910, Orville and Wilbur Wright opened the first US civilian flight school in Montgomery, Alabama. The Wright Brothers hoped to find a climate warmer and more hospitable to flying than their company base of snowy Dayton, Ohio, even as forward-thinking Montgomerians heralded the school as a way to rise above the shadow of the Civil War. Author Julie Hedgepeth Williams chronicles the short life of this flight school as seen mainly through the eyes of the Alabama press, whose reporting and sometimes misreporting “reflected the misconceptions, hopes, dreams, and fears about aviation in 1910, painting a picture of a time when flight was untested, unsteady, and unavailable to most people.”
Julie Hedgepeth Williams
Wings of Opportunity [EPUB ebook]
The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910
Wings of Opportunity [EPUB ebook]
The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 168 ● ISBN 9781603060936 ● File size 1.9 MB ● Publisher University of Georgia Press ● City Athens ● Country US ● Published 2010 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5932816 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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