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For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in severity and I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life. So wrote a quiet young Ohioan in 1900, one in an ancient line of men who had wanted to fly -- men who wanted it passionately, fecklessly, hopelessly. But now, at the turn of the twentieth century, Wilbur Wright and a scattered handful of other adventurers...

Focuses on the childhood of the Wright Brothers and the inventiveness they displayed from their earliest days.

Simple text and photographs present the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright and their pioneering efforts in the development of the airplane.

Sketches the lives of the two men responsible for the first flight of a machine powered aircraft on December 17, 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Profiles two brothers whose childhood interest in flight led them to build a successful flying machine.

Traces the path of the Wright brothers as they pursued their dream of changing the world of transportation.

Traces the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they showed the world how to fly.