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The history of powered flight in Alabama began in February 1910 with the arrival of Wilbur Wright in the capital city of Montgomery. In search of a suitable location to establish a training camp for student aviators, Wright selected Montgomery as the site of the nation's first civilian pilot training school because of the region's short winters, mild climate, and flat farmland. The establishment of the Wright flying school marked the beginning of a remarkable aviation heritage in Montgomery, a legacy further enhanced by the arrival of military flight
training at Taylor Field less than a decade later. The same factors that attracted the Wrights to Montgomery made the area an ideal location for the military flight training programs that would produce more than 100,000 aviation cadets at Maxwell and Gunter Fields during the Second World War. From the
Wright brothers to the Air University at Maxwell Field, Images of Aviation: Montgomery Aviation is the story of the first century of powered flight in Alabama's capital city.
About the author
Billy J. Singleton is chairman of the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame, vice president of the Wright Brothers-Maxwell Field Museum project, and a member of the board of directors of the Southern Museum of Flight.
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Manchmal genügt ein schräger Blick, und die alltäglichen Verrichtungen
und vertrauten Gesten werden plötzlich fremd. Mit fast beiläufiger Manier
verweigern Enrights Figuren die Konventionen und legen dadurch deren Verrücktheit
bloß. Die kurzen Erzählungen sind leicht und unterhaltsam, komisch, unerwartet
und beeindruckend. Der Witz und auch die Dringlichkeit ihres Erzählens
entfaltet sich aus der beschriebenen Situation, aus der Genauigkeit der
Beobachtung und deren sprachlicher Intensität.
