Deluxe hardcover,full-color,centennial edition for 2008; lavishly- illustrated with antique posters and postcards; recounts a critical piece of history unfamiliar to many Americans : how France provided Wilbur Wright with the receptive and knowledgeable audience of aviators and general public without which he would not have been able to launch world aviation there in 1908 with the first public demonstration of his biplane FLYER III.