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Preface: The Wright Myth

PART 1: PREFLIGHT

1. The Biographer—1942

2. The Letter—1948

3. The Murderer—1884

4. Steam Bugs—1896

5. Typhoid—1896

6. Inventors—1900

7. School of One—1900

8. The Pilgrim—1900

9. The Wright Sister—1900

10. Kill Devil Hills—October 18, 1900

11. The Mentor—1901

12. Dangerous Times—1901

13. Return to Kitty Hawk—1901

14. Wilbur Unleashed—1901

15. Tunnel Vision—1901

16. The Smithsonian—1902

17. The Movable Rudder—1902

18. United States Patent Office—1903

19. The Western Society of Engineers—1903

20. The Great Embarrassment—1903

21. Great Things—September 23, 1903

22. The Photograph—December 17, 1903

PART 3: LANDINGS

23. Fliers or Liars—1906

24. Death in the Sky—September 17, 1908

25. Return to Eden—1908

26. The Injunction—1910

27. Warped by the Desire for Great Wealth—1911

28. Final Flight—1912

29. The Great Flood—1914

30. To Fly Again—1914

31. Hammondsport, New York—1914

32. Middle of the Atlantic Ocean—1928

33. A Test of Wills—1930

34. The Lone Eagle—1934

35. The Battle of Britain—1940

36. The Authorized Biography—1943

37. Washington, DC—1943

38. Mabel Beck—1948

39. Wright Brothers, Wrong Story

Acknowledgments