Orville and Wilbur Wright are best known for their historic flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Their achievement inspired Americans of all ages, but it also brought forth a host of competitors, and the Wright brothers had to struggle to get the credit they deserved. The airplane, however, was just one of a long list of the brothers' accomplishments. Biographer Wendie C. Old details the Wright brothers' impact on history as they set out to prove what others had thought impossible, that human beings could fly.
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