Ebook: Birdmen: the Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the battle to control the skies

Fulcrum -- Highway in the sky -- Men in the dunes -- To kitty hawk -- Sophomore slump -- Gas bag -- Where no man had gone before -- Patent pioneering -- The vagaries of the marketplace -- The inexorable progression of knowledge -- The first brazilian aloft -- Langley's legacy -- Closing fast -- Vindication -- Orville and selfridge -- The toast of France -- Trading punches -- Best-laid plans -- Bowing to the inevitable -- Team sports -- Mavericks -- Faster, steeper, higher -- War birds -- Owning the sky -- The wages of righteousness -- The romance of death -- A reluctant steward -- A wisp of victory -- The grip of the spotlight -- The death of innocence.