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Quest for Flight: John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West

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Quest for Flight: John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West - Harwood, Craig S, and Fogel, Gary B
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The Wright brothers have long received the lion's share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wright's powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery, a prolific inventor who piloted the glider he designed in 1883 in the first controlled flights of a heavier-than-air craft in the Western Hemisphere.

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Quest for Flight: John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West 2019, University of Oklahoma Press

ISBN-13: 9780806164755

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Quest for Flight: John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West 2012, University of Oklahoma Press

ISBN-13: 9780806142647

Hardcover