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Cromwell Dixon's Sky-Cycle

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By John Nez
Publisher Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Cromwell Dixon's Sky-Cycle
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In the years and decades following the Wright Brothers famous first flight, an obsession with aviation gripped the nation. Thousands caught the bug. In an era of innovation and invention, scores of people pursued their own personal dreams of building a flying machine, and many did so right in their own backyards. Few stories, though, are as remarkable as that of Cromwell Dixon, a fourteenyearold boy who successfully designed, built and flew what he dubbed his SkyCycle literally a flying bicycle, that he could fully steer, and that he flew thousands of feet in the air.

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1156 words1,156 words
32 pages32 pages
Lexile AD780LLexile AD780L
Grade K to 3Grade K to 3
Age 5-8Age 5-8
Published 2009Published 2009

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Hear it inflate Hear it rudder Hear it precious Hear it propeller Hear it altitude Hear it valve Hear it spruce Hear it vacant Hear it descend Hear it loss Hear it gumption Hear it mechanical Hear it airtight Hear it checklist Hear it understatement Hear it rebuilt Hear it fabric Hear it skyward Hear it rowboat Hear it creaking Hear it pathway Hear it perfection Hear it astonishment Hear it sewing Hear it lad

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Hear it inflate Hear it rudder Hear it varnish Hear it aeronaut Hear it propeller Hear it valve Hear it contraption Hear it spruce Hear it vacant Hear it descend Hear it ballast Hear it gumption Hear it mechanical Hear it doubtless Hear it airtight Hear it checklist Hear it understatement Hear it rebuilt Hear it skyward Hear it rowboat Hear it pathway Hear it perfection Hear it aloft Hear it astonishment
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Book ISBN:

9780399250415

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