Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

Download or read book Wilbur's Story written by Donald B. Holmes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2008 is the Centennial of Wilbur Wright's key flights in France - flights that gave birth to modern aviation. It is a story little known in the English-speaking world; this 180pp, budget, B&W version of the lavishly-illustrated, full-colour first edition tells the remarkable story behind the Le Mans celebrations of 2008, and the 2009 Pau centennial of the first pilot school in the world. Includes over 150 antique French postcards; also newspaper reports and posters of these and other events of the Belle Epoque period of flightin France.