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First Flight
Author: Tom D. Crouch
Publisher: National Park Service
ISBN: MINN:31951D02248641V
Category: Transportation
Page: 116
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Language: en
Pages: 116
Pages: 116
Describes the Wright brothers of Dayton, Ohio and the events that lead to the world's first successful flight of a man-carrying, power-driven, heavier-than-air machine. The Wright brothers' first flight occurred on Dec. 17, 1903 and lasted just 12 seconds at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Language: en
Pages: 112
Pages: 112
Provides full-color photographs that chronicle the life of a hummingbird, following the story of Honey, an adult female, and her two chicks, Ray and Zen, including building a nest, laying the eggs, hatching, and their first flight.
Language: en
Pages: 46
Pages: 46
Here, from historian Sherwood Harris, is the vivid story of how two shy, conservative brothers from Dayton, Ohio, Orville and Wilbur Wright, became the first people in the world to achieve powered flight. On December 17, they made four flights - of 120, 175, 180, and 852 feet - and
Language: en
Pages: 108
Pages: 108
An unhappy wife can't decide what to do about her boorish husband until an uneaten meal gives her a dark idea... Something is raising zombies in Tulsa, and Justina Grave is the only one who can stop it... When a fat farm promises to make Edyth thin again, her dream
Language: en
Pages: 66
Pages: 66
Emily Beale, sixteen years old, faces her first major flight as a student pilot. The dramatic moment of the “first solo” isn’t what defines a young pilot. It’s the four-hour, solo, “cross-country” challenge that determines who they can become. As Emily flies around Washington’s Olympic Mountains and along the Oregon
