Pioneers of Flight A Documentary History Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: The Origins of the Practical Airplane	3
1	Daedalus and Icarus	15
2	The Short, Happy Flight of King Bladud	18
3	Oliver of Malmesbury, the Flying Monk	19
4	The Saracen of Constantinople	20
5	The Aerial Ship	21
6	The Flight of Birds	26
7	"Some Fire, My Dear Friend, Some Fire!"	29
8	The Flight of the Sycamore Seed	35
9	On Aerial Navigation	36
10	"Certain Improvements in Locomotive Apparatus and Machinery for Conveying Letters, Goods, and Passengers from Place to Place Through the Air, Part of Which Improvements Are Applicable to Locomotive and Other Machinery to Be Used on Water and on Land."	43
11	Proposal	45
12	"We Feel Very Sanguine as to the Results of Our Endeavour..."	48
13	"Memoir of the Late John Stringfellow"	50
14	The Artificial Bird of Captain Le Bris	56
15	"My Apparatus, No. 3, the Light, Imperfect One"	62
16	"My Late Brother Otto"	67
17	The Trials of the Eole	76
18	Progress in Flying Machines: Introduction	77
19	Progress in Flying Machines: Conclusion	79
20	"I Have Been Afflicted With the Belief That Flight Is Possible to Man"	85
21	The First Journey to Kitty Hawk	88
22	Life at Kitty Hawk, 1900	90
23	Life at Kitty Hawk, 1901	94
24	Life at Kitty Hawk, 1902	98
25	Mr. Chanute in Paris	100
26	Experiments With the Langley Aerodrome	104
27	Life at Kitty Hawk, 1903	117
28	"We Tossed a Coin to Decide..."	120
29	"Success Assured Keep Quiet"	122
30	"Mr. Daniels Took a Picture Just as It Left the Tracks"	123
31	"Success Four Flights Thursday Morning"	126
32	"Two Ohio Brothers Crowned With Success"	127
33	The Wright Boys Are Coming Home	131
34	Statement to the Associated Press	132
35	Fall Wrecks Airship	134
36	What Hath God Wrought?	135
37	"We Are Prepared to Furnish a Machine on Contract..."	137
38	"Like Everybody Else, I Cried: 'Bravo! Bravo!'"	143
39	Competition	146
40	Beginning to Fly	151
41	The June Bug	158
42	"We Would Be Glad to Take Up the Matter of a License..."	161
43	The Pioneers of Flight	165
44	Bleriot Tells of His Flight - Dropped Crutches to Do It	168
45	The First Air Meet	172
46	An Exchange Between Two Old Friends	175
47	"The Cheering Subsided to a Silent Prayer..."	181
48	Down the Hudson River	182
49	Finding His Wings	189
50	How a Woman Learns to Fly	195
51	"Canvas, Steel, and Wire"	207
52	The Sensation of Flying	209
53	Why I Looped the Loop	215
54	Johannisthal Days	217
55	"A Short Life, Full of Consequences"	227
56	The Credulous Farmer	228
	Index	229