Wilbur Wright's Flights In France

Description

A photo album presented to Orville Wright in 1920, by the widow of French industrialist Leon Bollee. It includes photos taken during Wilbur Wright's visit to France in 1908-1909. It is useful for aviation and history buffs and anyone else who appreciates vintage memorabilia.

Author description

Stanley W. Kandebo is Assistant Managing Editor for Technology at McGraw-Hill's Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine. He has spent nearly twenty years as a reporter covering aerospace and defense issues. Educated as an engineer at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and the University of Pennsylvania, he spent his early career as a design engineer in the aerospace industry, working on a number of weapons projects, including the Harpoon and Tomahawk cruise missile programs. He is an avid admirer of the Wrights and a serious collector of aerospace autograph and manuscript material. Dawne Dewey is Head of Special Collections and Archives for the Wright State University Libraries in Dayton, Ohio, and principal curator of the Wright Brothers Collection and other aviation history collections housed there. Ms. Dewey has served as consultant on a number of Wright Brothers projects, exhibitions, and movies, and was the editor of the Bishop Milton Wright Diaries published in 2000. She holds a master's degree in Public History from Wright State University, where she also teaches archival theory and practice in the graduate program.

Table of contents

Not applicable. This is a book of photographs.