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Wilbur Wright's Flights in France
Leon Bollee's Photographic Record, 1908-1909
by Stanley W. Kandebo
ISBN: 0071427392
ISBN-13: 9780071427395
Format: Hardcover
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published date: 2003
Size: 14 x 11.75 inches
Weight: 2.3 pounds
Pages: 88
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