Harry Combs (1913–2003)
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- Birthdate
- 1913-01-27
- Date of death
- 2003-12-23
- Gender
- male
- Birthplace
- Denver, Colorado, USA
- Place of death
- Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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- 16
Examines the aeronautical problems the Wrights perceived and solved including diagrams of the problems/solutions so the reader can visualize them
For example, in explaining one of the crashes the Wrights’ experienced…”What they did not know is that, because the center of gravity of an aircraft and its center of pressure must coincide within certain limits, the sudden aft movement of the center of pressure put so much lift behind the center of gravity that the machine was forced by its own energy to nose-dive into the ground.” (page 98).… (more)