Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910

Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910

Williams, Julie Hedgepeth

Paperback

Aviation Instruction20th Century United States History

Publisher Price: $20.95

ISBN10: 1588381684
ISBN13: 9781588381682
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Published: Apr 1 2010
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

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.

Also in

Aviation Instruction

View All