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Join Barnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall as they welcome Craig Harwood for a discussion, audience Q&A, and book signing. Craig Harwood is the author of Quest for Flight: John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West, a book that explores the life and work of the California scientist who succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wright Brothers' powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. While the Wright Brothers are credited for their work in inventing the airplane, the prolific inventor John J. Montgomery actually piloted the glider the he designed in 1883 in the first controlled flights of a heavier-than-air craft in the Western Hemisphere.
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