Recommended by
- Brian Armstrong: "A worthwhile read for all builders." source ↗
Summary
David McCullough's account of how two bicycle mechanics from Dayton, with no college degrees and no corporate backing, invented powered flight through obsessive tinkering, testing, and self-funding.
For founders
Armstrong calls it 'a worthwhile read for all builders' — the story of a hard problem solved by systematic iteration, trial aircraft, and an unaided decades-long run against bigger, richer rivals.