Wings of Madness

Released on by Paul Hoffman
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  • Wings of Madness Book Detail

  • Author : Paul Hoffman
  • Release Date : 2003
  • Publisher : HarperCollins UK
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 385
  • ISBN 13 : 1841153680
  • File Size : 33,33 MB
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Wings of Madness by Paul Hoffman PDF Summary

Book Description: "By the turn of the century, Santos-Dumont had moved to Paris. Soon, the dashing and impeccably dressed aeronaut was barhopping around the city in a one-man dirigible he invented, circling above crowds and crashing into rooftops. Eventually, he would join the world-wide competition to build the first true airplane. Once he succeeded, the press hailed him as the man who had conquered the air. (Because the Wright brothers worked in near secrecy, word of their first flights had not widely reached Europe when Santos-Dumon took to the skies.) His picture appeared on cigar boxes and dinner plates and he dined regularly with the Cartiers, the Rothschilds, and the Roosevelts, hosting "aerial dinners" in which his guests ate at an elevated table so they could imagine how it felt to be above the world." "But all would change after Santos-Dumont witnessed the destructive capacity of flying machines in World War I."--BOOK JACKET.

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