The Early History of the Airplane

'The Early History of the Airplane' is a fantastic book about aviation developments in the late 19th to early 20th century, written by the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright. They were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane. They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer, south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, at what is now known as Kill Devil Hills. The brothers were also the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible.