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| Prologue: Decoration Day, 1899 | 1 | |
| Chapter 1 | "The Edge of Wonder" | 7 |
| Chapter 2 | "A Slight Possibility" | 36 |
| Chapter 3 | "Some Practical Experiments" | 57 |
| Chapter 4 | "Truth and Error Intimately Mixed" | 88 |
| Chapter 5 | "The Possibility of Exactness" | 115 |
| Chapter 6 | "A Thousand Glides" | 132 |
| Chapter 7 | "Our Turn to Throw" | 169 |
| Interlude | 193 | |
| Chapter 8 | "What Hath God Wrought?" | 204 |
| Chapter 9 | "The Clean Air of the Heavens" | 221 |
| Chapter 10 | "A Flying Machine at Anchor" | 246 |
| Chapter 11 | "A World of Trouble" | 274 |
| Chapter 12 | "The Light on Glory's Plume" | 300 |
| Chapter 13 | "The Greatest Courage and Achievements" | 327 |
| Epilogue | 358 | |
| Acknowledgments | 367 | |
| Notes | 371 | |
| A Note on Sources | 409 | |
| Index | 415 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
| WonderClub |
Daniel Thornton
reviewed To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight on March 30, 2013
To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
My husband and I listened to this on a recent road trip. I'm pretty sure he would give it more stars, as he is a glider pilot and found the technical aspects fascinating.
I didn't object to the book in a serious way, but it got a bit dry and hard to follow and occasionally the hard to follow when I couldn't flip back a page or two to double check what year or event was being covered.
However, there were moments - as Wilbur's 1909 flight around the Statue of Liberty, or,earlier, a 12-year-old boy eagerly riding on a Wright Brothers glider - when one can feel the excitement of what it must have been like to be witness to a new era . there are also, of course, the requisite quotes from doubters who say that aeronautics is a fad that will never catch on.
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