The Wright Brothers
Subtitle: A Biography of Aviation's Greatest Pioneers
Publisher: Little Brown Book Group Limited
Published: March 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780316861441
Subjects: Aircraft: general interest; Sports & Recreation; Transportation; Sports; Aviation - History; AERONAUTICS_BIOGRAPHY; AERONAUTICS_HISTORY; Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology; Transportation / Aviation / History; Motor Sports; Scientists - General
First sentence: When, as a young newspaper reporter, I indulged ten shillings a week of my 6 salary on the extravagance of flying lessons, my instructor, a veteran World War II pilot, used to delight in bewildering people by answering the phone as 'Wilbur Wright'.