About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 73. Chapters: Aviation writers, Flight instructors, Wright brothers, Antoine de Saint-Exup ry, Jimmy Doolittle, Richard Douglas Husband, C. W. A. Scott, Albert Scott Crossfield, Les Crane, B. H. DeLay, Bruce Barrymore Halpenny, Peter Masak, Derek Piggott, Charles P. Cabell, Clyde Edward Pangborn, Richard A. Searfoss, Michael Coats, Hilda Hewlett, Richard F. Gordon, Jr., Pug Southerland, Percy MacKenzie, Matthias Dolderer, Ingo Renner, Barry Schiff, Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Rod Clarke, S ndor Katona, King Schools, Inc., Ann Welch, Harold E. Thompson, Francis John Blatherwick, Cecilia R. Aragon, Reg Turnill, Max Trescott, Safety pilot, Philip Wills, Thomas Knauff, Ralph Barker, Bevo Howard, Hendrik Tennekes, Christopher Orlebar, Vsevolod Abramovich, Norman Ralston, Helmut Reichmann, Helen Richey, Andrew Brookes, Yuri Garnaev, Macarthur Job, Wolfgang Langewiesche, Charles Grey, Doris Grove, Rafael Ivanovich Kapreliants, Amelia Reid, Steve Birdsall, Richard L. Collins, Rod Machado, B r ny chair, Leighton Collins, Andr Bosman. 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. Although not the first to build and fly experimental aircraft, the Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible. The brothers' fundamental breakthrough was their invention of three-axis control, which enabled the pilot to steer the aircraft effectively and to maintain its equilibrium. This method became standard and re...
