See Also:
Beginning of a FAMOUS Hero: The Henry Ford Story.
Life Lesson #78 – Focus.
Wilbur was 12-years-old, and Orville was only 7 when their father brought home the strangest toy they had ever seen. Their dad showed them how to spin this odd looking gadget and make it fly!! They made that toy fly over and over again. The brothers began to take a real interest in how things fly. They dreamed of someday building a man-sized machine that could fly using its own power.
Wilbur and Orville spent a lot of time studying in school and learning also about all kinds of machines. They learned how machines worked and how to fix them when they would break. They built their own printing press, and they started a newspaper. They started a shop where they built and repaired bicycles. But the two brothers had not forgotten their dream of building a man-sized flying machine. They studied birds to learn what makes them fly. They built wind tunnels to test different wing designs. They built and tested a lot of gliders.
And then at a place called Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17th, 1903 as his brother watched, Orville Wright actually flew the world’s first real airplane! An airplane that he and Wilbur had designed and built. They called it the Wright Flyer. Yes, because of the hard work and dedication of these two brothers, today, we have airplanes, and the Wright Brothers became HEROES!
– Jim Lord