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| Introduction: DeLand of the Free: Wingsuits for Whuffos | |
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| The Fall of Man from Towers, Cliffs, and Hills: The Legacy of Icarus | |
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| One Small Step for Man = One Giant Step for Man | |
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| The Plummet Continues | |
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| Bat-wings from Airplanes: The Legacy of Clem Sohn | |
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| The Sohn Also Falls: Clem Sohn | |
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| Mocking Birds Don't Sing: Floyd Davis and Others | |
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| Garden State Bird: William Picune | |
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| High Planes Drifter: Roland Kumzak | |
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| New Falls from Sioux Falls: Manus "Mickey" Morgan | |
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| Mamas, If You Don't Want Your Babies to Grow to Be Bird-Boys: Tommy Boyd | |
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| When Erks Turn Loony: Harry Ward | |
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| They Fell for It: Robert X. Leeds | |
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| International Playbird: Roy W. Grant | |
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| When a Finn Is a Wing: Viktor Andro | |
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| The Bat-wing Revival: The Legacy of Leo Valentin | |
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| L'homme-oiseau: Leo Valentin | |
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| Mocking Birds Still Don't Sing: Louis Faure and Others | |
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| Shiver of Death: Rudolf R. Boehlen | |
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| Michigan Shenanigans: Charlie Laurin and Art Lussier | |
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| Spy vs. Sky: Lyle Cameron | |
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| Flights of Fancy: Cliff Winters, Jim Poulson, Bob Hannigan | |
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| Band of Gypsies: Garth Taggart | |
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| Thy Words Have Upholden Him That Was Falling: Bill Cole | |
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| Daring Young Man on a Flying Trapeze: Tom Sitton | |
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| Paying the Toll: John Carta | |
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| The Growing Flock: The Legacy of Patrick de Gayardon | |
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| Solo Flight: Patrick de Gayardon | |
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| Over the Volcano: Chuck Priest | |
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| Slope Opera: Loic Jean-Albert | |
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| Birdmen and Birdbirds: Leo Dickinson | |
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| Beyond the Wingsuit | |
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| It's Skyray or the Highway: Christoph Aarns and Alban Geissler | |
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| Crossing Over: Felix Baumgartner | |
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| The Shape of Things to Come: Roberto Stickel | |
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| Turn On the Warm Jets: Yves Rossy | |
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| The Final Frontier: Earth | |
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| Appendix | |
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| "Darius Green and His Flying Machine" | |
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| "A Ballad of the Friar of Tungland" | |
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| Untitled Elegy on the death of Clem Sohn | |
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| Notes and Sources | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |