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Chasing Icarus : the seventeen days in 1910 that forever changed American aviation
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Chasing Icarus : the seventeen days in 1910 that forever changed American aviation

Author: Gavin Mortimer
Publisher: New York : Walker & Co, 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st U.S. edView all editions and formats
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By 1910, America and the world had been transfixed by the danger and challenge of mastering the air. "Chasing Icarus" captures both a pivotal moment in the history of aviation and the end of a gilded era that would soon be devastated by World War I. 24 b&w photographs.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gavin Mortimer
ISBN: 080271711X 9780802717115
OCLC Number: 259266814
Description: 305 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., plan ; 25 cm.
Contents: It's Europe or bust --
Let's stick by the ship --
A sort of bleeding to death --
Will launch lifeboats and trust to you --
We are in bad country and grave danger --
Progress slow and exhausting --
Wait until Orville comes --
An epoch-making event --
Tears started to our eyes --
A death trap --
Here are two men in a boat --Are you these gentlemen? --
There's always a chimney for a man to hang on to --
I'll be able to give the Wrights a good race --
I'm not hurt much but I want a long rest --
It isn't true, it can't be true! --
My disgust at this betrayal.
Responsibility: Gavin Mortimer.

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By 1910, America and the world had been transfixed by the danger and challenge of mastering the air. "Chasing Icarus" captures both a pivotal moment in the history of aviation and the end of a gilded era that would soon be devastated by World War I. 24 b&w photographs.

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