First to Fly: How Wilbur & Orville Wright Invented the Airplane
- ISBN-10
- 0439589177
- ISBN-13
- 9780439589178
- Series
- First to Fly
- Category
- Aeronautics
- Pages
- 36
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Author
- Peter Busby
Description
A look at the lives of the Wright brothers, from their childhood interest in flight, through their study of successful gliders and other flying machines, to their triumphs at Kitty Hawk and beyond.
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- 2016-06-14
- 288 pages
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- 2015-06-02
- 269 pages
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