Quest for Flight: John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West

by Gary B. Fogel and Craig S. Harwood

Book Overview

The Wright brothers have long received the lion's share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wright's powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery, a prolific inventor who piloted the glider he designed in 1883 in the first controlled flights of a heavier-than-air craft in the Western Hemisphere.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806142642
• ISBN13: 9780806142647
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.4"