Race through the skies : the week the world learned to fly
"From National Book Award winner Martin W. Sandler, a fascinating look at the week that brought aviation fever to the world. In 1903, the Wright brothers made three brief flights, and no one was there to watch them ars later, Wilbur Wright traveled to Europe to evangelicize about aviation and raise money for patents--and the world got aviation fever. That summer, a group of champagne companies organized the first ever international air meet in R...