It is a good picture. Very interesting guys. When Wilbur went to France to selling a license to their airplane technology, the French didn’t understand him at all. He neither drank booze nor mingled with women.
But when Wilbur proved his plane could fly, the French people treated him like a hero. Amazing story.
McCullough’s book is interesting. About a third of the way through the audio program, Orville had made his famous first flight at Kitty Hawk. So most of the book is about what happened after that event.
David McCullough has no peer in the genre.
Never thought a book about the Johnston Flood could be that compelling a read......but McC’s genius manages to do it.
Have got to read the Wright Brothers book.
McCullough is a genius. What stuck with me most from it was the Wright’s tenacity, but also when someone asked their father how much money was enough (they became affluent but not amazingly rich) he said “Enough that you are not a burden on anyone else”... Every American should have that as their goal.