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Title: Unlocking The Sky : Glenn Hammond Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane by Seth Shulman ISBN: 0-06-019633-5 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.39 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a great tale of adventure
Comment: This is a fun, exciting and entertaining book--one of the best nonfiction stories I've read. Glenn Curtiss had an amazing life and overcame an astounding set of obstacles to make a major contribution to the modern airplane. Best of all, Shulman is able to bring the story alive--deepening and broadening our understanding of how the airplane came to be and how technologies evolve. You don't have to be an aviation buff or even a history lover to thoroughly enjoy this page-turning tale. I highly recommend it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great read and it helps take you into the social settings
Comment: I was actually reading this book while visiting Kitty Hawk, NC. I'm amazed how bitter and close minded people still are.
The Wright Brothers did some amazing things. After they solved the basic problems they then went and hid for a few years to lock up patents and hold a monopoly on air travel. The French are passionate about their version of who invented flight. I think a lot of people were solving the same problem once light gas engines were put into the equation. I personally think the Wright brothers had a very clever control system but the wing warping and how it was tied into the rudder was pretty dangerous. Glen Curtis put wheels and pontoons on an airplane. He also flew the first flight AND won at the Rheim fly in beat three other Wright flyers which came in last. The fight over aviation reminds me some of the fight with computers. Thankfully in aviation no one owned a monopoly so traveling by plane is safer than any other mode of transportation statistically. Hopefully my computer will not crash on me before I finish this review. :-)
Rating: 1
Summary: Unwaiveringly BIASED and UNBALANCED
Comment: Throughout this book Mr. Shulman denigrates the contribution of the Wright Brothers. His bias is so prevalent throughout the book that I found myself shaking my head as I read blatantly contradictory statements within 5 lines of each other. The author's opinions and accusations are either based on his limited research or his intentional omission of fact. If you're even considering buying this book, I would direct you to the author's own words following a completely inane paragraph of conjecture about Orville Wright............"Or perhaps not." That about sums up this biased inaccurate ploy concealed in the history section.
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Title: To Conquer the Air : The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight by James Tobin ISBN: 0684856883 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Glenn Curtiss, Pioneer of Flight by Cecil R. Roseberry ISBN: 0815602642 Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Trade) Pub. Date: August, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: How We Invented the Airplane : An Illustrated History by Orville Wright ISBN: 0486256626 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1988 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight by Paul Hoffman ISBN: 0786866594 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 11 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age by Peter L Jakab, Tom D Crouch ISBN: 0792269853 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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