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The Wright Brothers

1996
The story of the American inventors who were the first to attain power-driven, heavier-than-air flight.

The Wright brothers

1996
Uses animation to dramatize the Wright brothers' development of the airplane and to explain some basic concepts of aerodynamics.

Wilbur and Orville Wright, young fliers

1984
The boyhood of the brothers who flew the first airplane in 1903.

The value of patience

the story of the Wright brothers
1976
Describes the patient efforts of the Wright brothers to build a flying machine.

The Wright brothers

1972
An easy-to-read biography of the two brothers who built and flew the first powered airplane in 1903.

The Wright brothers

the birth of flight = Los hermanos Wright : el comienzo de la aviaci?on
2005
Presents a short biography of the Wright Brothers written in both English and Spanish, and chronicles their lives and work in the development of early aviation and heavier-than-air flight.

The Bishop's boys

a life of Wilbur and Orville Wright
1989
An account of how the two inventors were guided by their father, the years leading to the triumph of practical flight, and the death of Orville in 1948.

Race for the sky

the Kitty Hawk diaries of Johnny Moore
2003
Ordered to practice his writing skills in the blank book his mother gave him, fourteen-year-old Johnny would rather go fishing near his home on North Carolina's Outer Banks and cannot think of anything important to write until two "dingbatters" from Ohio arrive in 1900 and try to build a flying machine.

First to fly

how Wilbur & Orville Wright invented the airplane
2002
A look at the lives of the Wright brothers, from their childhood interest in flight, through their study of successful gliders and other flying machines, to their triumphs at Kitty Hawk and beyond.

The Wright brothers

first in flight
2007
A brief biography of Orville and Wilbur Wright that profiles their lives and work which includes their interest in powered flight and invention of the airplane.

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