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Leaders and Pioneers in Aviation    by peter dancey 
Price: $2.99 USD. 13720 words. Published on September 3, 2010. .

Whilst the Wright Bros were still striving to get the Wright Flyer in the air in America, the French pioneering aviators in Europe were already looking to improve their flimsy machines with a view to selling them to wealthy aristorcrats and the military for fighting Already the Founding Fathers were to the fore with their new designs and innovations until this was upsurped by the design teams.
The Dawn of the Airplane    by peter dancey 
Price: $1.99 USD. 15270 words. Published on March 23, 2011. .

Continuing the story of the Origins of flying and the airplane this book carries on to look at the early pioneers of the heavier-than-air machine in America and Europe initially most of the pioneering flying centred at Paris. Eventually Britain got interested and in the short period from 1903 to 1911 their were literally thousand of intrepid aviators and in 1911/12 the military were interested.