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The Wright Brothers
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
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.
Voices Featured
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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