100th Anniv. of Kitty Hawk - Part I
You've heard of Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, but how about Glenn Curtiss or Albert Santos-Dumont? In this hour -- the first part of our series on the 100th anniversary of the flight at Kitty Hawk -- we'll take a look at what was happening in aviation leading up to the Wright Brothers' famous flight.
Guests:
Paul Hoffman
* Former Editor-in-Chief, Discover Magazine
* Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Author, Wings of Madness: Albert Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight, (Hyperion Books, 2003)
Woodstock, New York
Jack Carpenter
Author, Pendulum: the Story of America's Three Aviation Pioneers -- Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, and Glenn Curtiss, the Henry Ford of Aviation (ABC Books/ Jack Carpenter)
San Juan Capistrano, California
Michael Lavelle
* Museum of Flight Consultant
* Aviation Maintenance Manager, F/A-22 Maintenance Operation System, The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington

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