Publishing in its centennial year, this title looks at what Wilbur and Orville Wright achieved on December 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina when they made the first successful flight of an engine-powered plane and how they accomplished it. Aviation writer T.A. Heppenheimer puts their achievement in context of the other early attempts at building a viable airplane.
- ISBN10 0471401242
- ISBN13 9780471401247
- Publish Date 12 February 2003
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 8 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 394
- Language English