Unlocking the Sky Glenn Hammond Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane

Name: Unlocking the Sky Glenn Hammond Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane
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ISBN: 9780060196332

ISBN-10: 0060196335

ISBN-13: 9780060196332

Edition: 2002

Authors: Seth Shulman

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Unlocking the Sky tells the extraordinary tale of the race to design, refine, and manufacture a manned flying machine, a race that took place in the air, on the ground, and in the courtrooms of America. While the Wright brothers threw a veil of secrecy over their flying machine, Glenn Hammond Curtiss -- perhaps the greatest aviator and aeronautical inventor of all time -- freely exchanged information with engineers in America and abroad, resulting in his famous airplane, the June Bug, which made the first ever public flight in America. Fiercely jealous, the Wright brothers took to the courts to keep Curtiss and his airplane out of the sky and off the market. Ultimately, however, it was…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/3/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Prologue: Langley's Folly



Rewriting Aviation History



Intrigue at Hammondsport



Wrights and Wrongs



America or Bust



Reaching for the Sky



Captains of the Air



Sky Dancing



Flight of the June Bug



Sky King



Warped Wings



Grounded



Flight of a Hero



New Beginnings


Epilogue: All But the Legacy



A Partial List of Inventions by Glenn Curtiss


Sources


Acknowledgments


Index