The Wright Brothers (Epic Fails, Book 1) cover art

The Wright Brothers (Epic Fails, Book 1)

Nose-Diving into History

Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

The Wright Brothers (Epic Fails, Book 1)

By: Ben Thompson, Erik Slader
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £7.99

Buy Now for £7.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

A hilarious nonfiction look at two of history's most epic "failures": the Wright brothers, whose countless crashes ultimately led to groundbreaking success.

Although Orville and Wilbur Wright are celebrated today as heroes for their revolutionary contributions to science and engineering - they are acknowledged as the first men to successfully achieve powered, piloted flight - their success was hard-earned. (Spoiler alert: there were a lot of nosedives involved.) In fact, it took the self-taught engineers years of work and dozens of crashes before they managed a single 12-second flight!

In this first installment of the brand new Epic Fails series, Ben Thompson and Erik Slader take listeners through the Wright brothers' many mishaps and misadventures as they paved the way for modern aviation.

The Epic Fails series takes a humorous and unexpected view of history, exploring the surprising stories behind a variety of groundbreaking discoveries, voyages, experiments, and innovations, illustrating how many of mankind's biggest successes are in fact the result of some pretty epic failures.

©2018 Erik Slader and Ben Thompson (P)2018 Recorded Books
Biographies History North America Science & Technology Vehicles & Transportation Nonfiction Aviation Misadventure Witty Funny Success US Air Force Air Force

Listeners also enjoyed...

Nikola Tesla: A Life from Beginning to End cover art
The Blenheim Bomber Story cover art
Sonic Wind cover art
Race to Hawaii cover art
Chasing the Demon cover art
Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink (Lost #1) cover art
Pan Am at War cover art
Project 9: The Birth of the Air Commandos in World War II cover art
Charles Rolls of Rolls-Royce cover art
Against All Odds: The Guinea Pig Story cover art
The Flight cover art
Come Up and Get Me cover art
Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men cover art
In the Shadow of the Moon cover art
Mission cover art
Rise of the Rocket Girls cover art
No reviews yet