The question this episode answers
Why did two modest Midwestern bike mechanics succeed in achieving powered flight when the heavily funded, government-backed scientific elite of the time failed so spectacularly?
How two brothers who fixed bicycles became the first people to fly a plane and changed travel forever.
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