First to Fly

North Carolina and the Beginnings of Aviation

Thomas C. Parramore (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

388 Seiten

2002 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-2676-8 (ISBN)

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A remarkable story filled with dreamers, inventors, scoundrels and pioneering pilots, "First to Fly" recounts North Carolina's significant role in the early history of aviation. Beginning well before the Wright brothers' first powered flight in Devil Hill in 1903, North Carolinians laboured at the cutting edge of aviation technology from the late 1800s through World War I. North Carolina was a launching ground for real and imaginary ballooning adventures as early as 1789. Powered experiments, including what seems to have been America's first airplane, gained momentum in the late-19th century. Tar Heel mechanics and inventors also built a dirigible and, arguably, the world's first successful helicopter. Tom Parramore's account of the Wright brothers' experiments and turn-of-the-century Dare County provides new information on the crucial role of Outer Bankers in ensuring Wrights' success. Without their aid, he argues, it is unlikely that the miracle of flight would have been first achieved in 1903 - or in America. After 1903, growth in the new avaition industry, spurred by World War I, outpaced North Carolina's ability to play a major role.
But the state produced some of the most notable airmen and women of the era, furnishing hundreds of pilots to the war effort.

THOMAS C. PARRAMORE is professor of history emeritus at Meredith College in Raleigh and author, most recently, of Norfolk: The First Four Centuries.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.2002
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Luftfahrt / Raumfahrt
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
	Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
ISBN-10	0-8078-2676-6 / 0807826766
ISBN-13	978-0-8078-2676-8 / 9780807826768
Zustand	Neuware