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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 118. Chapters: Wright brothers, Howard Hughes, George Cayley, Hezarfen Ahmed Celebi, Sergei Korolev, Lagari Hasan Celebi, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Burt Rutan, Gustave Whitehead, Igor Sikorsky, Jim Bede, Sherman Fairchild, Enea Bossi, Sr., Alexander P. de Seversky, David Schwarz, Richard Pearse, List of aviation pioneers, Otto Lilienthal, Donald Beatty, Henri Coand, William Samuel Henson, Octave Chanute, Hugo Junkers, Traian Vuia, John Joseph Montgomery, George de Bothezat, Raul Pateras Pescara, Gerhard Neumann, Arthur M. Young, Percy Pilcher, Michael Stroukoff, Barry Hill Palmer, Charles Kaman, Albert Francis Zahm, Jan Wn k, Frederick Marriott, E. Lilian Todd, Domina Jalbert, Friedrich Hermann Wolfert, Hugh DeHaven, Preston Watson, Augustus Moore Herring, Ry ichi Yazu, Frank Piasecki, Solomon Andrews, Rostislav Alexeyev, Albrecht Berblinger, Aurel Vlaicu, Paul Moller, Glenn Odekirk, Francis Herbert Wenham, Woodrow Wilson Skirvin, Ognjeslav Kostovi Stepanovi, Stanko Bloudek, Alexander Mozhaysky, Lyman Gilmore, John Stringfellow, Lewis Archer Boswell, Willard Ray Custer, Rodrig Goliescu, Wilhelm Kress, W adys aw Zalewski, Pavel Bene, Miroslav Hajn, Anatoly Georgievich Ufimtsev, Jan Lavezzari, Carl Friedrich Meerwein, Lawrence Sperry, Paul Fitts, Louis Pierre Mouillard, Victor Tatin, Birger Honningstad, Vladimir Barmin, Anastase Dragomir, Ted R. Smith, Rex Buren Beisel. Excerpt: The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 - January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 - May 30, 1912), were two Americans credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903. In the two years afterward, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft. Altho...
