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Title: Quest for Flight: John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West

Author : Craig S. Harwood

Pages : pages

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Language : en-US

ISBN-10 : 0806142642

ISBN-13 : 9780806142647

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Quest for Flight: John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West BY Craig S. Harwood

Read Online and Download Quest for Flight: John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West. The Wright brothers have long received the lion?s share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wright?s powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery, a prolific inventor who piloted the glider he designed in 1883 in the first controlled flights of a heavier-than-air craft in the Western Hemisphere.Re-examining the history of American aviation, Craig?S. Harwood and Gary?B. Fogel present the story of human efforts to take to the skies. They show that history?s nearly exclusive focus on two brothers resulted from a lengthy public campaign the Wrights waged to profit from their aeroplane patent and create a monopoly in aviation. Countering the aspersions cast on Montgomery and his work, Harwood and Fogel build a solidly documented case for Montgomery?s pioneering role in aeronautical innovation.As a scientist researching the laws of flight, .

Quest for Flight: John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West by Craig S. Harwood

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