Airborne

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This is the inspiring photobiography of Wilbur and Orville Wright, whose determination and curiosity led them to create the first working airplane. The newest edition adds common core-aligned critical thinking activities for even further learning in the classroom or at home. Packed with intriguing photos of Wilbur and Orville Wright, their family, and their many experiments, this photobiography reveals the personalities and lives of these extraordinary young men who resolved those problems of flight that stumped the experts and built the first airplane that really could fly!

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Horn Book Review

The brothers' processes of hypothesizing ways to overcome problems, building models, testing those models, correcting their mistakes, and finally producing a successful powered airplane take center stage in this account. Both the journalistic narrative and the archival photos blend relevant biographical information with technical explanations. A chronology and a list of print and nonprint sources are included. Ind. (c) Copyright 2016. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.