On The Wings Of A Sparrow
By Gregg Alven
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On The Wings Of A Sparrow, while being fiction, is based on the accomplishment of a real person. The year is 1912, the airplane and flight are being introduced to people all over the world. Air shows, speed races and daring distances covered by flight are ways to introduce this new wonder. Harriet Quimby, first licensed woman pilot in the United States, chooses to fly alone across the English Channel. In need of a plane she entrusts her training and preparation to Connell Wright, who has just lost one of his partners in an air accident. Adversaries in the beginning the two eventually warm to each other, fall in love and make plans to return to Washington state, Wright's home state, where they will marry and live out their lives together. Their dream is shattered by accident and death, events all too common in the early days of flying.
On The Wings Of A Sparrow is a story of Harriet Quimby's determination, preparation and accomplishment in the time when flight was in its infancy.
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