Ebook: Chasing Icarus: the seventeen days in 1910 that forever changed American aviation

It's Europe or bust -- Let's stick by the ship -- A sort of bleeding to death -- Will launch lifeboats and trust to you -- We are in bad country and grave danger -- Progress slow and exhausting -- Wait until Orville comes -- An epoch-making event -- Tears started to our eyes -- A death trap -- Here are two men in a boat --Are you these gentlemen? -- There's always a chimney for a man to hang on to -- I'll be able to give the Wrights a good race -- I'm not hurt much but I want a long rest -- It isn't true, it can't be true! -- My disgust at this betrayal.;By 1910, America and the world had been transfixed by the danger and challenge of mastering the air. "Chasing Icarus" captures both a pivotal moment in the history of aviation and the end of a gilded era that would soon be devastated by World War I. 24 b & w photographs.