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The Wright brothers and the conquest of flight

May 5, 2015

Excerpt 鈥淭hey had this passion, this mission; they were obsessed to succeed,鈥� said historian David McCullough. But though their plane is proudly displayed at the Smithsonian鈥檚 Air and Space Museum in Washington, historian David McCullough still believes the Wright Brothers 鈥�

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Search unearths story of Wright factory seamstress

September 4, 2014

Excerpt An effort to gather the stories of Wright Company factory workers has uncovered information about one of the first women in the world to work in the aircraft industry. Ida Holdgreve, born in Delphos, Ohio in 1881, worked as 鈥�

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