October 2009
Beginner
208 pages
3h 13m
English
“TO EVERY PERSON THERE COMES THAT SPECIAL MOMENT WHEN HE IS TAPPED ON THE SHOULDER TO DO A VERY SPECIAL THING UNIQUE TO HIM. WHAT A TRAGEDY IF THAT MOMENT FINDS HIM UNPREPARED FOR THE WORK THAT WOULD BE HIS FINEST HOUR.”
—WINSTON CHURCHILL, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER
In 1903, the Wright brothers made history in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with the first successful airplane flight. With Orville at the controls, the plane flew 120 feet (37 meters) and was in the air twelve seconds. The brothers made three more flights that day. The longest, by Wilbur, was 852 feet (260 meters) in fifty-nine seconds. Just imagine what was going through their minds as they attempted to fly a machine. Every flight that day ...