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Shulman, Seth Unlocking the Sky: Glenn Hammond Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane
New York Harpercollins 2002 0060196335 / 9780060196332 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Good dust jacket
[12], 258 pages, plates, cloth, DJ, very good. Stated first edition. From Booklist (Gilbert Taylor) : Shulman presents the story of Glenn Curtiss, a leader during the fledgling decade of aviation, which saw the airplane extend its flying range from 100-foot hops in 1903 to 100-mile cruises by 1914. Iconic to aviation acolytes but without the Wright brothers' wider fame, Curtiss was in the forefront of aviation design. To lend the story vibrancy, Shulman relates it in the present tense, enhancing the sense that although air flight was an inevitable technological development in the abstract, in actuality it was the outcome of much trial and error by several experimenters. There's no gainsaying the Wrights' first achievement of flight, but Shulman dramatizes how Curtiss rapidly outdistanced them technologically. The Wrights' innovations were obsolete by Wilbur's death in 1912, whereas many of Curtiss' inventions, such as ailerons and retractable landing gear, became lasting elements in aircraft design. With the Kitty Hawk centenary approaching, Shulman's lively work provides balance to the celebration.
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