Wright Brothers

This book is the first deconstruction of the Wright brothers myth. They were not – as we have all come to believe–two halves of the same apple. Each had a distinctive role in creating the first "flying machine."

The book gives business leaders and managers constructive tips they can use to tackle their most difficult challenges and opportunities. A perfect combination of savvy management guidance and historical adventure story, The Wright Way shows readers how to make their business soar when others can't even get off the ground.

On December 17, 1903, in a fragile little plane which they had built at home for less than $1,000, Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first powered flights in the history of mankind—and opened the Air Age.

Aided by over 100 rarely seen photographs from the Wright brothers' personal collection, the authors tell the story of Wilbur and Orville Wright: how they went from operating a printing shop and bicycle store in Dayton, Ohio, to ushering in the Age of Flight; why Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, was chosen as the site of their initial experiments; and how Orville made the crucial discovery that led to man's first powered, sustained, controlled airplane flight on December 17, 1903. While many books on the Wright brothers end with the historic first flight, "Kitty Hawk and Beyond" goes much further, documenting in eloquent words and rare photographs the important events, post-1903, that frame the Wright Brothers legend.