"In Super Simple Aircraft Projects young readers will learn about the science and history of flight. Then they can do the science-based aircraft projects like a straw rocket or a hovercraft. This book has a timeline, easy-to follow steps, how-to pictures, and, best of all, it's written for kids!" --

Animated biography of the Wright brothers, two men who ignored all those who said it couldn't be done and became the first to manage powered flight.

"The feud between this nation's great air pioneers, the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, was a collision of unyielding and profoundly American personalities. On one side, a pair of tenacious siblings who together had solved the centuries-old riddle of powered, heavier-than-air flight. On the other, an audacious motorcycle racer whose innovative aircraft became synonymous in the public mind with death-defying stunts. For more than a decade, they...

Examines the lives of the Wright brothers and discusses their experiments and triumphs in the field of flight.

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...

Traces the work that the two Wright brothers did together to develop the first machine-powered aircraft.

A look at the lives of the Wright brothers, from their childhood interest in flight, through their study of successful gliders and other flying machines, to their triumphs at Kitty Hawk and beyond.

In 1903, a group of children on the beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, dream of flying and witness the first flight of the Wright brothers. Includes a chronology of milestones in the history of flight.