An Epic Story of Intrigue, Treachery and Passion amidst Wealth and Power.
Introducing the third book in the trilogy of the Wrights by Oakwood historian, Jane Healy. Oakwood was the home of the Wright Brothers. He was an immortal in his lifetime, Orville Wright. He was the first to fly at Kitty Hawk in 1903. In 1909 when the brothers founded The Wright Company, their exhibition manager met a beautiful girl and brought her into the Company, And that is how they met. Belle who was to become his helpmate, whom he leaned on and trusted throughout the decades of adversity and his fight with the United States Government. When he shipped the first airplane to England for safekeeping in 1928, Belle was there. She sewed all the fabric on the wings. When the many famous people came to Dayton to visit him, she was by his side; she met Lindbergh at that time. She was at his right hand side at the dedication of the Kitty Hawk Monument in 1932 and the dedication of the Dayton Monument the next decade.
She was the one person he depended on for support. Belle had a deep understanding of aviation and spoke his "aviation language". Together for thirty seven years, she was at his death bed in 1948. An amazing, unknown love story.
With nearly one hundred color photographs and prints, mostly unseen, this book is a solid account of this brilliant mans life as he viewed the quantum leap of aviation throughout the first half of the Twentieth Century.
