We Were There at the First Airplane Flight
Author:
Felix Sutton
Historical Consultant:
Grover Loening
Illustrator:
Laszlo Matulay
Publication:
1960 by Grosset & Dunlap
Genre:
Fiction, Historical Fiction
Series:
We Were There
Series Number: 28
Pages:
181
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An east wind was blowing in strong off the Atlantic on that Saturday morning in 1902 when Jimmie and Clara Blair first caught sight of the strange, gigantic kite that hung in the sky high over Kitty Hawk Peninsula.
"Come on, Clara!" Jimmie shouted, starting to run across the sand. "I've got to see what's going on!"
And that is how they met Wilbur and Orville Wright, a couple of young bicycle mechanics from Ohio who had a crazy dream that someday men would fly through the air.
All that summer Jimmie helped the Wright boys as they tested their odd-looking glider. He would never forget the day Orville tried out their first engine-powered model—and it stayed up!
From then on, there was no holding the Wright brothers. By the fall of 1905, they had made continuous flights of twenty miles or more. Jimmie Blair was in college by that time, preparing to become an engineer in the Wright Flying Machine Company.
Today, when Jimmie sees a jet liner hurtle across the sky, he must surely remember the day in May, 1905, when the first passenger plane flew—and he was there!
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Felix Sutton
1908 - 1977American
Felix Sutton's ancestors migrated to Virginia from England a generation before the Revolutionary War. The first of his family to be born in the colo... See more
Laszlo Matulay
1912 - 1999Austrian American
Laszlo Matulay was born in Vienna, Austria, of Hungarian parents. He attended Normal School and studied art in Vienna for five years at the Academy ... See more
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We Were There at the First Airplane Flight
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Reviewed by Edward Garboczi
Over the years, the more I have learned about Orville and Wilbur Wright and their 1903 invention of powered, controlled flight, the more impressed I have been by these men. They invented the wind tunnel and generated their own corrected data for wing-lift design, which made their airplane possible. This book tells their story for the child reader, who cannot help but be fascinated by these men and their world-changing accomplishment. Just think: by the 1910s there were World War I fighter planes and bombers, by the 1920s there was airmail transport and ocean crossing, by the 1930s there was commercial air travel, and by 1969—only 66 years after the Wright Brothers’ first famous flight—men landed on the moon. I have stood on the field at Kitty Hawk in the Wright Brothers National Memorial in North Carolina and pictured what it was like on that historic day in 1903. This book will help a child picture this event and hopefully be inspired to imitate their example of creativity, technical expertise, hard work, and perseverance against any odds.
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