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To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for FlightI received this audiobook as a gift for Christmas and it took me a little while before I screwed up the desire to listen to it. I have a lot of podcasts and other audiobooks vying for my attention and don’t want to spend time with things that aren’t really interesting to me.I was pleasantly surprised. Like most Americans I was pretty ignorant of many of the details surrounding not only the Wright brother’s landmark powered flight, but also around their attempts to market the idea in their own country. The infamous Kittyhawk flight is at about the middle of the book. I had rather assumed that it was a fait a complete, that once they had proven their technology the rest was as easy as pie. But nothing could be further from the truth. A very worthwhile read / listen if you have any interest at all in the social politics behind one of the greatest accomplishments of the 20th century. |