Just bought it!
Yes, agree. McCullough’s The Wright Brothers is an outstanding book. I listened to it on audio CD.
It’s a very personal and in depth look at the lives and these self-made maniac-on-a-mission engineers, both of whom only graduated from high school.
Great time to be reading the book because it’s a chronicle of how much be achieved by a couple determined dreamers with almost no money.
All the aeronautical “wisdom” that existed at the time of their success was bogus. They essentially created aeronautical science through their patient building and testing of gliders and the first planes.
At one point they created a “wind tunnel” using hacksaw blades to simulate the wing designs being tested.
The path to Making American Great Again passes through the Outer Banks and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.