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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Kill Devil Hill - a great book about the Wright brothers,
By R McTaggart (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Kill Devil Hill: Discovering the Secret of the Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
If you have any interest in flying, or about the process of innovation, then this book is for you. Very readable and hard to put down. The popular myth about the Wright brothers seems to be that they tinkered around and sort of stumbled into discovering how to fly. Harry Combs clearly shows how this is not the case. It's not only amazing how the Wright brothers dedicated themselves to this task, it is inspiring. A fascinating book, and a must read for anybody interested in the subject of the discovery of human flight.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Good technical detail,
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This review is from: Kill Devil Hill: Discovering the Secret of the Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
Most accounts of the Wrights skip over the good parts. This book gives you the nitty gritty details of the technical problems that cropped up along the way and how the boys solved those problems. I've never read a better account for people who are interested in aviation as well as the "human interest" part of the story.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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A fascinating story - not just for flying enthusiasts,
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This review is from: Kill Devil Hill: Discovering the Secret of the Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
Centennial plans: (...)For several years after their first successful flights in North Carolina, the Wright Brothers developed their planes and flew them outside of Dayton, Ohio. People would tell the folks at the newspaper about all this- "You really ought to do a story"- but evidently the newspaper people never even investigated this preposterous rumor... It wasn't until 6 years later, when the Wright Brothers made headlines all over Europe- for flying circles around everyone else in a flying competition- that they became famous in the United States. Take that as a parable, if you think that you can learn from the news media everything / anything that's worth knowing.
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