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Paperback Realizing the Dream of Flight: Biographical Essays in Honor of the Centennial of Flight, 1903-2003 Book

ISBN: 149357650X

ISBN13: 9781493576500

Realizing the Dream of Flight: Biographical Essays in Honor of the Centennial of Flight, 1903-2003

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While growing up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Milton Wright, the Wright Brothers' father, liked to purchase toys for his sons that he hoped would stimulate their imagination. One of the most memorable gifts was a toy helicopter that was designed by the French aeronautical experimenter Alphonse P naud. Milton gave his sons this gift in 1878, and, though it was a simple device with a stick bound to a four-blade rotor set in a spindle, it had the intended...

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