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John Nez, author of Cromwell Dixon's Sky Cycle, our guest blogger for the week of 5/18

Fri, 05/15/2009

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John Abbott Nez is our guest blogger during the week of May 18th. If you have any questions for John Abbott Nez, add a comment to any of his posts.

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Here is more information on Cromwell Dixon's Sky Cycle:

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 fourteen-year-old boy who successfully designed, built and flew what he dubbed his "Sky-Cycle"-literally a flying bicycle, that he could fully steer, and that he flew thousands of feet in the air.

More about John Abbott Nez:

John Abbott Nez has made more than fifty children's books of all sorts. He often wondered what it might be like to take off on a flying bicycle up into the clouds, but coming down to earth, he had fun making a picture book about flying airships instead. John Abbott Nez lives in Seattle with his wife and two children.

Cromwell Dixon's Sky Cycle
John Nez - Author