104 years ago this week, Wilbur and Orville Wright managed to coax their spruce biplane off the North Carolina sand for twelve seconds, and those twelve seconds started a revolution in flight. We examine the human desire to fly, and how getting flight... changed us.
This piece features the voices of:
Tom Crouch, director of the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum
Walter Boyne, former director of the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, author of Dawn over Kitty Hawk
Dr. Jani Pallis, aeronautical engineer and leader of Wright Again project
Amanda Wright-Lane, great grand-niece of Wilbur and Orville
John Aliviti, senior curator at the Franklin Institute
Special thanks to Ben Adair at the Savvy Traveler, Morty Savada at Records Revisited & WNYC archivist Andy Lanset.
The Franklin Institute
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
David Radolph of "Music for the Connoisseur"
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