{"id":78491,"date":"2019-11-25T07:30:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T12:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=78491"},"modified":"2019-11-26T09:13:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T14:13:44","slug":"ge-features-wright-state-special-collections-and-archives-in-latest-aviation-blogpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/11\/25\/ge-features-wright-state-special-collections-and-archives-in-latest-aviation-blogpost\/","title":{"rendered":"GE features Wright State Special Collections and Archives in latest aviation blog post"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Aviation Page-Turners: The Top 10 Aviation Books of All Time (Probably)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

On\u00a0National Read A Book Day in September, we asked our Instagram\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter\u00a0followers to name their favorite aviation-related page-turners. As you can imagine, the response was strong. To distill the list, we asked GE Aviation employees to rate the top 20 books on a five-star scale. The Aviation must-reads you see here were ranked based on the total number of stars each book received.<\/p>\n

Far be it from us to claim that this list is definitive. (How could it be?!) But as far as #avgeek literature goes, it comes pretty darn close. If you don\u2019t see your favorite aviation book on here, we want to know! Leave a comment so that the rest of us can check it out.<\/p>\n

1. “The Wright Brothers”<\/strong>\u00a0by David McCullough<\/p>\n

Having tackled a parade of epochal events in American history\u2014from the Johnstown Flood and Manifest Destiny to deeply researched bios of Harry Truman and John Adams\u2014it seems only natural that two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner David McCullough would train his sights on Orville and Wilbur Wright. “The Wright Brothers” explores the courage and curiosity of the seemingly ordinary bicycle-manufacturing brothers from Dayton, Ohio, who went on to \u201cinvent the future of flight\u201d for all humankind. McCullough\u2019s gifts as a biographer and storyteller are in full effect, especially when writing about the brothers\u2019 unwavering support for one another during times of both success and misfortune. As McCullough makes clear, Orville and Wilbur exemplified resilience in the face of adversity. It\u2019s no wonder GE Aviation employees gave the book top marks!<\/p>\n

Bonus: Call it luck, coincidence or divine providence, but just up the road from GE Aviation\u2019s Evendale, Ohio, headquarters sits Wright State University\u2019s Special Collections and Archives, home to the\u00a0Wright Brothers Collection<\/a>. We tracked down Dawne Dewey, who oversees the archives and has spent 30 years becoming an expert on all things Wright, to find out what it took to aid McCullough in his research for the book.<\/p>\n

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Call it luck, coincidence or divine providence, but just up the road from GE Aviation\u2019s Evendale, Ohio, headquarters sits Wright State University\u2019s Special Collections and Archives, home to the\u00a0Wright Brothers Collection. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":36196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,725,2114,715,2118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-home-news-sidebar","category-libraries","category-news","category-special-collections-and-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78491"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78531,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78491\/revisions\/78531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}