Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910 - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:NewSouth BooksISBN-13:9781588381682ISBN-10:1588381684UPC:9781588381682Book Category:Transportation, HistoryBook Subcategory:Aviation, United StatesBook Topic:Piloting & Flight Instruction, 20th CenturySize:8.80 x 5.80 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5Product ID:SCG36TVPHC
From author Julie Hedgepeth Williams, winner of the 2021 Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History
In 1910, Orville and Wilbur Wright opened the first US civilian flight school in Montgomery, Alabama. The Wright Brothers hoped to find a climate warmer and more hospitable to flying than their company base of snowy Dayton, Ohio, even as forward-thinking Montgomerians heralded the school as a way to rise above the shadow of the Civil War. Author Julie Hedgepeth Williams chronicles the short life of this flight school as seen mainly through the eyes of the Alabama press, whose reporting and sometimes misreporting "reflected the misconceptions, hopes, dreams, and fears about aviation in 1910, painting a picture of a time when flight was untested, unsteady, and unavailable to most people."Languages:EnglishPublisher:NewSouth BooksISBN-13:9781588381682ISBN-10:1588381684UPC:9781588381682Book Category:Transportation, HistoryBook Subcategory:Aviation, United StatesBook Topic:Piloting & Flight Instruction, 20th CenturySize:8.80 x 5.80 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5Product ID:SCG36TVPHC
JULIE HEDGEPETH WILLIAMS is an adjunct communication and media professor at Samford University. She is also the recipient of the 2021 Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History. Williams is the author or coauthor of eleven books, including Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama.
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