Glenn Curtiss and Augustus Post trace Curtiss’s road from a boyhood in upstate New York through motor-building and motorcycle racing to the Aerial Experiment Association and the June Bug flights of 1908. Chapters by Captain Paul Beck, Lieutenant Theodore Ellyson of the Navy and Hugh Robinson cover military and naval flying as it stood in 1912.
A first-hand record of American aviation’s earliest years by one of its chief builders, valuable to anyone curious about how flight began. Download the free EPUB.