1 00:00:24,870 --> 00:00:26,655 2 00:00:39,624 --> 00:00:41,365 [INDISTINCT TALKING] 3 00:00:43,324 --> 00:00:46,370 ORVILLE: Then you will lose me 4 00:00:46,501 --> 00:00:48,329 5 00:00:48,459 --> 00:00:50,679 6 00:00:50,809 --> 00:00:53,247 - -AGNES: I'm Your Own 7 00:00:53,377 --> 00:00:55,597 BOTH: 8 00:00:55,727 --> 00:00:59,731 Hello, my honey 9 00:00:59,862 --> 00:01:03,257 10 00:01:03,387 --> 00:01:06,825 11 00:01:06,956 --> 00:01:08,218 Where's Wilbur? 12 00:01:08,349 --> 00:01:09,741 He's still back at the shop. 13 00:01:09,872 --> 00:01:11,569 He's always at the bicycle shop. 14 00:01:12,353 --> 00:01:14,181 I... I'll go find him. 15 00:01:14,311 --> 00:01:17,227 Hmm. Thank you, Katherine. 16 00:01:17,358 --> 00:01:18,620 -You know Casey? -Yeah. 17 00:01:18,750 --> 00:01:20,012 Okay. 18 00:01:20,143 --> 00:01:21,579 19 00:01:21,710 --> 00:01:23,320 20 00:01:23,451 --> 00:01:27,411 21 00:01:27,542 --> 00:01:30,501 22 00:01:30,632 --> 00:01:32,764 [ALL CHEERING AND WHISTLING] 23 00:01:45,951 --> 00:01:47,214 ORVILLE: "For some years, my brother Will 24 00:01:47,344 --> 00:01:48,606 "has been afflicted with the belief that 25 00:01:48,737 --> 00:01:51,261 "flight is possible to man. 26 00:01:51,392 --> 00:01:53,176 "His obsession has increased in severity 27 00:01:53,307 --> 00:01:55,396 "and I feel that it may cost him his life. 28 00:01:56,658 --> 00:01:58,486 "In 1895, 29 00:01:58,616 --> 00:02:01,053 "we read of the experiments of Otto Lilienthal 30 00:02:01,184 --> 00:02:04,274 "who was making glider flights in Germany. 31 00:02:04,405 --> 00:02:07,234 "In 1896, he was killed in a gliding accident 32 00:02:07,364 --> 00:02:09,801 "while risking his life to learn by doing." 33 00:02:39,353 --> 00:02:40,310 KATE: Wilbur? 34 00:02:43,008 --> 00:02:43,879 Wilbur? 35 00:02:46,055 --> 00:02:47,012 Wilbur Wright. 36 00:02:52,583 --> 00:02:53,932 What are you doing here? 37 00:02:54,281 --> 00:02:56,195 Why? 38 00:02:56,326 --> 00:02:58,763 Well, I suppose you've forgotten all about the picnic. 39 00:02:59,503 --> 00:03:01,549 Oh, yes, I did. 40 00:03:01,679 --> 00:03:03,899 And about Elizabeth Mayfield. 41 00:03:04,029 --> 00:03:05,683 You promised you'd spend the day with her. 42 00:03:05,814 --> 00:03:07,511 Wilbur, you are being rude. 43 00:03:08,338 --> 00:03:09,470 Did Elizabeth say that? 44 00:03:13,125 --> 00:03:14,301 Never mind who said it. 45 00:03:15,389 --> 00:03:16,825 Come on. 46 00:03:23,135 --> 00:03:24,659 47 00:03:45,419 --> 00:03:46,637 [CHEERING] 48 00:03:52,904 --> 00:03:54,471 I'm sorry to keep you waiting. 49 00:03:55,690 --> 00:03:57,953 Oh, that's all right, Will. 50 00:03:58,083 --> 00:03:59,650 Everybody knows how busy you are. 51 00:04:07,354 --> 00:04:08,833 I appreciate your patience. 52 00:04:10,705 --> 00:04:12,010 Will, I've been thinking. 53 00:04:14,186 --> 00:04:16,145 If there were some way that I could help you in your work... 54 00:04:19,801 --> 00:04:20,932 Until you succeed. 55 00:04:25,372 --> 00:04:27,156 The only thing that worries me is that you'll get hurt. 56 00:04:28,723 --> 00:04:29,854 Don't worry about that. 57 00:04:32,030 --> 00:04:33,510 Do you really think you can do it? 58 00:04:35,469 --> 00:04:36,600 Fly? 59 00:04:43,564 --> 00:04:44,956 See that skyrocket? 60 00:04:48,264 --> 00:04:50,005 Someday we'll be riding on them. 61 00:05:00,450 --> 00:05:02,060 62 00:05:09,546 --> 00:05:11,635 HARLAN: I just don't know. 63 00:05:11,766 --> 00:05:13,420 Well, it looks impressive. 64 00:05:14,986 --> 00:05:16,684 Where the hell is Kitty Hawk? 65 00:05:18,773 --> 00:05:21,253 The coast of North Carolina, Mr. Mumford. 66 00:05:21,384 --> 00:05:22,167 How far is that? 67 00:05:23,299 --> 00:05:26,128 About 500 miles. 68 00:05:26,258 --> 00:05:29,000 Good Lord, that's 1,000 miles round trip. Why go that far? 69 00:05:30,175 --> 00:05:31,655 When I wrote to the weather bureau 70 00:05:31,786 --> 00:05:32,656 and told them my requirements, 71 00:05:32,787 --> 00:05:34,092 they recommended Kitty Hawk. 72 00:05:35,180 --> 00:05:36,094 Requirements? 73 00:05:38,445 --> 00:05:39,576 Yeah. 74 00:05:40,142 --> 00:05:41,143 Wind. 75 00:05:42,057 --> 00:05:44,102 Reasonably steady and consistent. 76 00:05:45,016 --> 00:05:46,453 And miles and miles of sand dunes. 77 00:05:47,541 --> 00:05:48,933 Sand? 78 00:05:49,064 --> 00:05:50,500 What do you need sand for? 79 00:05:51,588 --> 00:05:52,850 Well, it's not the sand, 80 00:05:53,721 --> 00:05:54,809 it's the open spaces, 81 00:05:54,939 --> 00:05:56,680 the lack of trees. 82 00:05:56,811 --> 00:05:58,334 Well, if it isn't the sand... 83 00:05:58,465 --> 00:06:00,510 Well, there's plenty of open pasture land around here. 84 00:06:00,641 --> 00:06:03,208 I don't see why you have to go all the way to Kitty Hawk. 85 00:06:03,339 --> 00:06:06,298 Mr. Mumford, I'm going to Kitty Hawk. 86 00:06:06,429 --> 00:06:07,604 That's all there is to it. 87 00:06:07,735 --> 00:06:10,085 No, that is not all there is to it. 88 00:06:10,215 --> 00:06:11,956 You know bank regulations prohibit 89 00:06:12,087 --> 00:06:13,958 the early withdrawal of funds without good cause. 90 00:06:17,092 --> 00:06:18,833 Will you release the funds or won't you? 91 00:06:26,057 --> 00:06:28,930 Well, what does Orville say about this? 92 00:06:29,060 --> 00:06:30,366 Does he also want to withdraw this money? 93 00:06:30,497 --> 00:06:32,107 Yes, sir. 94 00:06:32,237 --> 00:06:35,066 What's bothering you, Mr. Mumford? 95 00:06:35,197 --> 00:06:37,678 [SIGHING] Will, a man could get killed 96 00:06:37,808 --> 00:06:40,289 flying around on a thing like this. 97 00:06:40,419 --> 00:06:42,726 But if I get this into the air with me on it, 98 00:06:42,857 --> 00:06:43,858 I'll be making history. 99 00:06:49,167 --> 00:06:50,952 That's worth a few risks, isn't it? 100 00:06:51,082 --> 00:06:52,301 [LAUGHING] 101 00:06:54,608 --> 00:06:57,654 All right, Will, I'll make the withdrawal. 102 00:06:58,699 --> 00:07:01,005 -How much did you say? -$600. 103 00:07:01,136 --> 00:07:03,617 $500. Took a long time to save that money, Will. 104 00:07:03,747 --> 00:07:05,009 [HARLAN CHUCKLING] 105 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:28,990 Well, I think Wilbur should do as he likes. 106 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:30,557 He's earned this opportunity. 107 00:07:30,687 --> 00:07:31,819 Earned, you say? 108 00:07:32,733 --> 00:07:34,648 That's exactly my point. 109 00:07:34,778 --> 00:07:36,563 He's using the savings and loan money. 110 00:07:36,693 --> 00:07:39,478 All over the world, men are building gliders trying to fly. 111 00:07:39,609 --> 00:07:40,741 And getting killed. 112 00:07:40,871 --> 00:07:42,351 But they are doing it now. 113 00:07:44,005 --> 00:07:46,355 What about now? And here? 114 00:07:48,357 --> 00:07:51,839 You boys are just beginning to make the bicycle shop pay a dividend. 115 00:07:51,969 --> 00:07:55,494 Father, I am now 33 years of age. 116 00:07:55,625 --> 00:07:58,846 In those years, I have managed to do one thing of significance 117 00:07:58,976 --> 00:08:00,717 and that is graduate from high school. 118 00:08:05,374 --> 00:08:08,638 Now, I am not an engineer like Chanute up in Chicago, 119 00:08:08,769 --> 00:08:12,250 nor do I have government backing like Langley in Washington, 120 00:08:12,381 --> 00:08:14,644 but I am convinced 121 00:08:14,775 --> 00:08:17,386 that with Orville's help, I can be the first into the air. 122 00:08:18,692 --> 00:08:19,736 Or Orville can. 123 00:08:23,958 --> 00:08:27,135 The fact is I don't give a hoot about the bicycle business. 124 00:08:27,570 --> 00:08:28,397 It's a living. 125 00:08:29,572 --> 00:08:30,965 But flying, 126 00:08:31,879 --> 00:08:33,271 conquering the air... 127 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:40,061 I think that's a reason for living. 128 00:08:43,325 --> 00:08:46,197 Well, it just doesn't seem right to me in the... 129 00:08:48,156 --> 00:08:49,810 In the natural scheme of things. 130 00:08:51,333 --> 00:08:52,247 Will? 131 00:08:53,465 --> 00:08:54,162 Do it. 132 00:09:03,867 --> 00:09:04,999 [WIND WHOOSHING] 133 00:09:09,438 --> 00:09:12,093 ORVILLE: Will went on to Kitty Hawk first. 134 00:09:12,223 --> 00:09:13,747 Rather than take the glider with him, 135 00:09:13,877 --> 00:09:16,401 he decided to build one there. 136 00:09:16,532 --> 00:09:17,968 Its wingspan will be determined by the length 137 00:09:18,099 --> 00:09:19,404 of the lumber he can obtain. 138 00:09:21,406 --> 00:09:22,625 Our sister, Kate, has reminded him 139 00:09:22,756 --> 00:09:24,583 not to take any dangerous chances. 140 00:09:24,714 --> 00:09:28,283 WILLIAM: Well, we're fishing folk, mainly, 141 00:09:30,154 --> 00:09:32,896 even though there ain't too much money in it. 142 00:09:33,027 --> 00:09:35,638 Still, we're comfortable enough. 143 00:09:35,769 --> 00:09:38,293 We don't need too much in the way of luxuries. 144 00:09:39,773 --> 00:09:40,904 I tell you what. 145 00:09:41,035 --> 00:09:42,819 When you want something special, 146 00:09:44,212 --> 00:09:46,170 you just come to me or my brother. 147 00:09:46,301 --> 00:09:48,172 We'll see what we can fix up for you. 148 00:09:49,913 --> 00:09:51,959 Halt. Halt. Halt. 149 00:09:54,396 --> 00:09:55,919 This is my wife and children. 150 00:09:57,442 --> 00:10:00,489 This is, uh, Mr. Wilbur Wright of Ohio. 151 00:10:01,882 --> 00:10:04,449 Pa, is he staying with us? 152 00:10:06,713 --> 00:10:07,975 WILLIAM: I think he is, Tom. 153 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:17,854 WILBUR: Two pounds of bacon... 154 00:10:20,335 --> 00:10:22,903 Two dozen eggs and a dozen tomatoes. 155 00:10:23,033 --> 00:10:25,427 I especially like tomatoes. 156 00:10:25,557 --> 00:10:28,386 TOM: The store don't carry that much for the whole island. 157 00:10:28,517 --> 00:10:29,997 WILBUR: Well, see what you can manage. 158 00:10:31,302 --> 00:10:33,130 Pa says you've come to fly kites. 159 00:10:33,957 --> 00:10:36,612 Oh? Well, one big kite. 160 00:10:36,743 --> 00:10:38,832 How big? 161 00:10:38,962 --> 00:10:40,529 Big enough to carry me up to the sky. 162 00:10:40,659 --> 00:10:41,791 Like a bird? 163 00:10:45,664 --> 00:10:47,275 Those are the wings. 164 00:10:47,405 --> 00:10:49,364 You're really gonna make something out of all that? 165 00:10:50,104 --> 00:10:51,801 I'm gonna fly in it. 166 00:10:51,932 --> 00:10:54,325 -Fly in it? -Or on it. 167 00:10:54,456 --> 00:10:56,066 Can I watch? 168 00:10:56,197 --> 00:10:57,415 You can help, Tom. 169 00:10:58,242 --> 00:11:00,331 You and your father. 170 00:11:00,462 --> 00:11:02,769 I'm gonna need all the help I can get. 171 00:11:02,899 --> 00:11:05,075 Oh, boy! I gotta tell Pa. 172 00:11:57,519 --> 00:11:58,868 Well, what do you think of her? 173 00:12:11,838 --> 00:12:14,144 She's the most beautiful creature I've ever seen, Will. 174 00:12:18,409 --> 00:12:19,497 I thought you'd be pleased. 175 00:12:23,545 --> 00:12:25,373 I'd like you to meet a friend of mine. 176 00:12:25,503 --> 00:12:26,765 Tom Tate. 177 00:12:26,896 --> 00:12:29,116 Tom, this is my brother Orville Wright. 178 00:12:30,030 --> 00:12:31,335 Glad to meet you, Tom. 179 00:12:33,076 --> 00:12:35,905 And that, I presume, is your moderately priced resort hotel. 180 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:38,212 It'll grow on you. 181 00:12:39,126 --> 00:12:40,518 [LAUGHING] 182 00:12:42,564 --> 00:12:45,741 [SIGHING] Well, what are we waiting for? 183 00:12:45,872 --> 00:12:47,874 We have some work to do if we're going to get her into the air. 184 00:12:48,004 --> 00:12:49,571 [WIND WHOOSHING] 185 00:12:56,056 --> 00:12:59,363 WILBUR: She'll fly a lot better with one of us aboard! 186 00:13:00,408 --> 00:13:03,019 Good Lord, Will, I don't know. 187 00:13:04,107 --> 00:13:05,456 Isn't she a beauty? 188 00:13:07,371 --> 00:13:09,112 Are you serious, Will? 189 00:13:09,243 --> 00:13:11,636 Oh, I think she'll do, Orv. 190 00:13:11,767 --> 00:13:14,161 Absolutely! She'll kill both of us. 191 00:13:15,466 --> 00:13:17,686 Oh, no, she's got a lot of lift, Orv. 192 00:13:19,340 --> 00:13:21,516 Do you see the way she pulled herself back up? 193 00:13:48,935 --> 00:13:51,894 I ain't normally one to butt into other people's business, 194 00:13:52,025 --> 00:13:53,896 but you boys got me worried. 195 00:13:54,027 --> 00:13:55,985 WILLIAM: If you got a mind to jump on that thing, 196 00:13:56,116 --> 00:13:59,075 all I can say is there's cheaper ways to kill yourself. 197 00:14:00,772 --> 00:14:03,732 Thank you for your concern, Mr. Tate. We know the risks. 198 00:14:03,862 --> 00:14:07,344 Ain't no risk to it. It's a sure and certain thing. 199 00:14:07,475 --> 00:14:09,259 We're not rushing into anything, Mr. Tate. 200 00:14:09,390 --> 00:14:10,913 We've been studying the winds. 201 00:14:11,044 --> 00:14:13,046 WILLIAM: Orville, you can study them winds from now 202 00:14:13,176 --> 00:14:16,136 until hell ices over and you won't learn nothing useful. 203 00:14:16,266 --> 00:14:19,182 You may well be right, Mr. Tate, but we still have to try it. 204 00:14:19,313 --> 00:14:21,271 Eagles, hawks and buzzards, 205 00:14:21,402 --> 00:14:25,362 the only wings around can stand up to them winds. 206 00:14:25,493 --> 00:14:29,584 From those same winds, we'll learn velocity and mean direction. 207 00:14:29,714 --> 00:14:31,455 WILLIAM: Yeah, "mean" is right. 208 00:14:31,586 --> 00:14:33,980 They'll blow you and your glider clean into Georgia, 209 00:14:34,110 --> 00:14:36,373 they'll be picking you up in small baskets. 210 00:14:36,504 --> 00:14:39,724 Pa, we promised to help. 211 00:14:39,855 --> 00:14:43,293 I gave my word, boy, and I'll stand by her. 212 00:14:43,424 --> 00:14:45,252 But I don't hold with people killing themselves, 213 00:14:45,382 --> 00:14:47,123 and I want them to know it. 214 00:14:53,129 --> 00:14:54,391 I think it's secure now. 215 00:15:12,018 --> 00:15:14,411 [WIND WHOOSHING LOUDLY] 216 00:15:30,166 --> 00:15:31,254 WILBUR: Thanks, Tom. 217 00:15:32,603 --> 00:15:35,693 Right here. That'll be just fine. 218 00:15:45,181 --> 00:15:46,443 She looks awful pretty, Orv. 219 00:15:54,277 --> 00:15:55,713 You set? 220 00:15:55,844 --> 00:15:56,671 Easy, Will. 221 00:16:01,371 --> 00:16:02,590 All right? 222 00:16:21,913 --> 00:16:23,089 -WILBUR: Ready, Orv? -Mmm-hmm. 223 00:16:25,656 --> 00:16:27,571 TOM: Fly it, Mr. Wilbur! Fly it! 224 00:16:30,574 --> 00:16:31,532 There you go, Will! 225 00:16:33,969 --> 00:16:34,796 Easy! Easy! 226 00:16:45,154 --> 00:16:46,677 Will! Will! 227 00:16:50,159 --> 00:16:51,334 Will! 228 00:16:53,728 --> 00:16:55,730 Will! Will! 229 00:16:57,427 --> 00:16:59,908 Will! You all right, Will? 230 00:17:00,038 --> 00:17:01,170 You hurt? 231 00:17:02,737 --> 00:17:05,131 I thought you were gonna get killed. 232 00:17:05,261 --> 00:17:06,567 WILBUR: So did I, Tom. 233 00:17:12,094 --> 00:17:13,139 So did I. 234 00:17:19,449 --> 00:17:20,668 ORVILLE: Will! 235 00:17:21,234 --> 00:17:22,322 Will! 236 00:17:23,888 --> 00:17:24,933 WILBUR: Look at that buzzard, Orv. 237 00:17:30,373 --> 00:17:31,766 You see his wings? 238 00:17:35,552 --> 00:17:38,860 They're almost at the same angle as the wings on our glider, Orv. 239 00:17:38,990 --> 00:17:40,992 Look! 240 00:17:41,123 --> 00:17:44,170 Look how hard it is for the buzzard to maintain equilibrium. 241 00:17:48,870 --> 00:17:52,787 Professor Langley's about to fly his motorized glider. 242 00:17:52,917 --> 00:17:55,093 Hawks and eagles don't have that trouble, Orv, 243 00:17:55,224 --> 00:17:58,184 because they have the agility to respond to changes in the wind. 244 00:17:58,314 --> 00:17:59,924 Didn't you hear what I said? 245 00:18:00,055 --> 00:18:03,450 It's control! It's control, Orv. 246 00:18:03,580 --> 00:18:06,627 Just because Langley has the motor doesn't put him ahead of us. 247 00:18:06,757 --> 00:18:08,629 Fine. Fine. Then we won't worry about him. 248 00:18:12,372 --> 00:18:13,938 Langley's about to fly? 249 00:18:16,463 --> 00:18:18,378 250 00:18:34,916 --> 00:18:37,353 Model's all proved my theories, Dr. Bell. 251 00:18:37,484 --> 00:18:40,617 Now nothing can stop us from flying. 252 00:18:40,748 --> 00:18:43,620 BELL: How long will it take you to have a full-sized aerodrome 253 00:18:43,751 --> 00:18:46,188 built and operating? Would you say five years? 254 00:18:46,319 --> 00:18:47,885 We will fly in three years, Dr. Bell! 255 00:18:49,278 --> 00:18:50,453 Three years? 256 00:18:50,584 --> 00:18:53,064 It's all very exciting. 257 00:18:53,195 --> 00:18:55,937 Your invention will be for you what the telephone was for me. 258 00:18:56,067 --> 00:18:58,853 True, but in your case you were lucky. 259 00:18:58,983 --> 00:19:01,029 You managed to beat your nearest competitor 260 00:19:01,159 --> 00:19:03,858 to the patent office by a matter of hours. 261 00:19:03,988 --> 00:19:07,731 Now, I have no competition since Tom Edison gave up the chase. 262 00:19:08,166 --> 00:19:09,646 [MEN LAUGHING] 263 00:19:14,564 --> 00:19:16,392 [WIND WHOOSHING] 264 00:19:25,401 --> 00:19:26,707 It's a full gale! 265 00:19:29,362 --> 00:19:31,755 WILBUR: Did we tie it down securely enough? 266 00:19:31,886 --> 00:19:33,714 -The tent? -The glider! 267 00:19:39,546 --> 00:19:41,504 ORVILLE: It would take at least a week to fix it... 268 00:19:42,723 --> 00:19:44,290 if we had the material. 269 00:19:46,683 --> 00:19:49,120 TOM: Mr. Orville! Mr. Wilbur! 270 00:19:49,251 --> 00:19:50,557 Mail for ya! 271 00:19:51,253 --> 00:19:51,949 Thank you, Tom. 272 00:19:53,211 --> 00:19:55,431 Ah! Darn wind. 273 00:19:57,346 --> 00:19:59,653 "The lord giveth and the lord taketh away." 274 00:20:00,654 --> 00:20:02,003 Nice if he'd make up his mind. 275 00:20:03,309 --> 00:20:04,397 Note from Kate. 276 00:20:05,702 --> 00:20:07,095 Ha! 277 00:20:07,225 --> 00:20:09,532 WILBUR: That fabric is French sateen, Tom. 278 00:20:09,663 --> 00:20:11,404 Do you think your mother would like to have what's left? 279 00:20:11,534 --> 00:20:12,753 Might make a dress. 280 00:20:13,536 --> 00:20:14,537 It's yours. 281 00:20:14,668 --> 00:20:16,496 TOM: Are you gonna try again? 282 00:20:19,281 --> 00:20:20,543 I don't know, Tom. 283 00:20:23,198 --> 00:20:26,506 She says Professor Langley's being given more government funds. 284 00:20:28,725 --> 00:20:29,726 Fine! 285 00:20:30,771 --> 00:20:32,816 I'm sick of hearing about Langley. 286 00:20:38,344 --> 00:20:39,649 He's the competition. 287 00:20:44,088 --> 00:20:47,048 No, Orv, he isn't the competition, 288 00:20:47,178 --> 00:20:48,615 he's merely the gadfly. 289 00:20:56,927 --> 00:20:58,755 ORVILLE: Will decided, and I agreed, 290 00:20:58,886 --> 00:21:02,150 it's best to keep our experiments and work secret. 291 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:05,588 We need time alone to either succeed or fail. 292 00:21:05,719 --> 00:21:09,418 We need the opportunity to test the full possibilities of our ideas. 293 00:21:35,401 --> 00:21:36,532 Oh! 294 00:21:55,029 --> 00:21:57,074 ORVILLE: You're not holding that spar straight. 295 00:21:57,205 --> 00:21:59,076 WILBUR: It's hard when you're in this position, Orv. 296 00:22:01,252 --> 00:22:02,906 Do you expect me to hold this forever? 297 00:22:04,430 --> 00:22:06,475 ORVILLE: Let me do this my way. 298 00:22:06,606 --> 00:22:07,607 WILBUR: Then start hammering. 299 00:22:08,608 --> 00:22:10,436 [LIGHT HAMMERING] 300 00:22:13,003 --> 00:22:14,527 Good Lord. 301 00:22:14,657 --> 00:22:16,833 WILBUR: What? ORVILLE: I didn't say anything. 302 00:22:16,964 --> 00:22:18,487 WILBUR: Well, somebody said "good lord." 303 00:22:18,618 --> 00:22:20,228 BISHOP: I said good Lord. 304 00:22:21,664 --> 00:22:24,493 Father! I thought you were in Indiana. 305 00:22:24,624 --> 00:22:27,104 I got home this morning. We adjourned the senate. 306 00:22:28,889 --> 00:22:31,935 Oh! My, my, my. 307 00:22:33,110 --> 00:22:34,938 What in the world is this? 308 00:22:35,722 --> 00:22:37,027 Our new glider. 309 00:22:39,116 --> 00:22:41,510 This looks more like Mrs. Barton's laundry. 310 00:22:41,641 --> 00:22:43,381 It'll be bigger than last year's. 311 00:22:43,512 --> 00:22:46,210 -Well, will this model have a cabin? -No. 312 00:22:46,341 --> 00:22:47,908 You're going to lie out there on the wing again 313 00:22:48,038 --> 00:22:49,562 holding on by the skin of your teeth? 314 00:22:49,692 --> 00:22:51,215 That's right. 315 00:22:51,346 --> 00:22:53,391 Couldn't there be some kind of safety device? 316 00:22:53,522 --> 00:22:55,959 -Something that would... -It would restrict your movements. 317 00:22:56,090 --> 00:22:58,048 Well, that's exactly my point. 318 00:22:58,179 --> 00:23:02,139 It will restrict you from falling 60 feet from the air onto your heads. 319 00:23:02,270 --> 00:23:04,272 There's not much danger of falling out, Father. 320 00:23:04,402 --> 00:23:05,969 I'll be the judge of that, Wilbur. 321 00:23:11,366 --> 00:23:12,672 [GROANS] 322 00:23:14,064 --> 00:23:16,197 Well, Katherine sent me over here 323 00:23:16,327 --> 00:23:18,504 to find out when you'll be leaving for Kitty Hawk. 324 00:23:20,593 --> 00:23:21,550 In about a week. 325 00:23:33,867 --> 00:23:36,783 ACE: What the heck you got in there, Wilbur, the mad river bridge? 326 00:23:36,913 --> 00:23:39,525 Well, Mr. Hutchin, we'd rather not say what it is. 327 00:23:39,655 --> 00:23:41,831 Oh! Just a minute, Orville, you gotta declare what's in it. 328 00:23:41,962 --> 00:23:45,443 I mean, you can't ship on the BandO unless you say what's in that box. 329 00:23:45,574 --> 00:23:46,880 Ace, you put me in a terrible position. 330 00:23:47,010 --> 00:23:48,446 Well, I don't care, Orville. 331 00:23:48,577 --> 00:23:52,233 -Orv? -Well, all right, Ace. If you say. 332 00:23:52,363 --> 00:23:54,061 Well, I do. It's my wont and duty. 333 00:23:54,757 --> 00:23:55,889 All right, Ace. 334 00:23:58,413 --> 00:24:00,110 You see, Ace, our great-aunt Hepsiba 335 00:24:00,241 --> 00:24:03,636 got run over by a traction engine... Squashed her flat. 336 00:24:03,766 --> 00:24:06,769 The only thing we could do is pack her up for shipment back east. 337 00:24:10,033 --> 00:24:11,382 Oh, no. 338 00:24:11,513 --> 00:24:13,863 No, you ain't gonna ship no dead body on this line. 339 00:24:13,994 --> 00:24:17,432 -Ace, it's the glider. -It's the what? 340 00:24:17,563 --> 00:24:19,608 It's the glider I've been building over in my shop. 341 00:24:21,741 --> 00:24:24,570 Oh! You, Orville! 342 00:24:24,700 --> 00:24:26,876 Always making jokes. 343 00:24:28,617 --> 00:24:29,792 How much it gonna cost, Ace? 344 00:24:29,923 --> 00:24:34,841 -Um, $206.81. -One way? 345 00:24:34,971 --> 00:24:37,365 That's right, and that's only if I can figure out where to put it. 346 00:24:37,495 --> 00:24:40,020 I mean, we ain't got no room left in the baggage car. 347 00:24:40,150 --> 00:24:42,109 You mean this glider might not go on the train? 348 00:24:42,239 --> 00:24:43,980 That's what I mean for a fact. 349 00:24:45,852 --> 00:24:48,594 Ace, that glider's going or that train isn't going. 350 00:24:49,682 --> 00:24:51,727 I don't care how... 351 00:24:51,858 --> 00:24:54,774 If the engineer has to carry it on his back, that glider's going. 352 00:24:54,904 --> 00:24:56,123 All right, Will, if you say so. 353 00:25:00,823 --> 00:25:03,347 Would you mind telling me, what are you gonna do with the glider? 354 00:25:05,741 --> 00:25:06,916 I'm gonna fly in it. 355 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,138 Does he mean...in the air? 356 00:25:17,361 --> 00:25:19,059 'Fraid so, Ace. 357 00:25:19,189 --> 00:25:21,235 You see, Will's never been quite right in the head. 358 00:25:23,759 --> 00:25:25,326 Oh, I understand. 359 00:25:25,456 --> 00:25:27,110 You have to humor him. 360 00:25:27,241 --> 00:25:29,417 Don't you worry. I'll get the box on the train. 361 00:25:29,547 --> 00:25:30,461 Appreciate it, Ace. 362 00:25:30,592 --> 00:25:31,898 [CHUCKLING] 363 00:25:38,165 --> 00:25:40,123 Thanks, Orv. Appreciated it. 364 00:26:00,056 --> 00:26:01,667 WILBUR: We built our new glider 365 00:26:01,797 --> 00:26:04,495 according to Lilienthal's known calculations. 366 00:26:04,626 --> 00:26:06,149 By shifting our weight in the hip cradle 367 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:07,934 like a bicycle rider, 368 00:26:08,064 --> 00:26:09,718 we can engage the wires and pulleys 369 00:26:09,849 --> 00:26:11,415 which warp the wings 370 00:26:11,546 --> 00:26:14,462 and, we hope, balance the glider in flight. 371 00:26:14,592 --> 00:26:17,508 -That's it! - We believe we can overcome the danger of crashing 372 00:26:17,639 --> 00:26:19,946 by adding a moveable front elevator, 373 00:26:20,076 --> 00:26:22,600 and at the same time control our lift, 374 00:26:22,731 --> 00:26:25,429 glide and landings in the crosswinds at Kill Devil Hill. 375 00:26:29,956 --> 00:26:32,523 WILBUR: Orv, remember, 376 00:26:32,654 --> 00:26:34,874 this is your first time! 377 00:26:35,004 --> 00:26:37,311 Nothing fancy, you hear? 378 00:26:37,441 --> 00:26:38,791 I hear. 379 00:26:40,618 --> 00:26:43,099 Okay, take it easy, Orv. Here we go. 380 00:26:48,452 --> 00:26:49,236 Up she goes. 381 00:26:52,761 --> 00:26:55,459 Orv? Orv! 382 00:27:02,118 --> 00:27:03,903 WILBUR: Keep the wings level! 383 00:27:04,817 --> 00:27:06,166 Straighten 'em out! 384 00:27:08,646 --> 00:27:09,778 Turn it back. 385 00:27:11,127 --> 00:27:12,868 Warp the wings, Orv! 386 00:27:16,219 --> 00:27:17,743 Straighten 'em out! 387 00:27:19,657 --> 00:27:21,137 Turn it back! 388 00:27:23,183 --> 00:27:24,793 Get the nose up! 389 00:27:30,756 --> 00:27:32,279 [GROANING] 390 00:27:35,891 --> 00:27:37,240 You all right, Orv? 391 00:27:42,115 --> 00:27:43,420 I told you not to take any risks. 392 00:27:44,639 --> 00:27:46,075 Risks? 393 00:27:46,206 --> 00:27:48,034 Lord, Will, I didn't even take a deep breath. 394 00:27:50,210 --> 00:27:51,907 It was like shaking hands with the wind. 395 00:27:58,348 --> 00:28:00,481 The wind started to turn me, Will. 396 00:28:00,611 --> 00:28:02,265 There was nothing I could do about it. 397 00:28:04,311 --> 00:28:06,617 When I came down, I realized I don't even know how to land. 398 00:28:06,748 --> 00:28:08,141 [WILLIAM SIGHS] 399 00:28:20,153 --> 00:28:21,502 WILBUR: That's right, Orv! 400 00:28:21,632 --> 00:28:22,938 Keep the wind level! 401 00:28:23,809 --> 00:28:25,114 Keep the nose up! 402 00:28:35,342 --> 00:28:37,344 Great job. That's it. 403 00:28:39,389 --> 00:28:40,521 Raise it up. 404 00:28:45,918 --> 00:28:47,397 ORVILLE: It's too strong! 405 00:28:48,442 --> 00:28:50,400 It'll give us the necessary speed. 406 00:28:51,314 --> 00:28:52,838 It'll break your neck! 407 00:28:53,751 --> 00:28:55,362 Orv, 408 00:28:55,492 --> 00:28:57,843 I never figured to live forever. 409 00:29:01,847 --> 00:29:02,630 Come on! 410 00:29:07,243 --> 00:29:08,462 ORVILLE: Easy, Will! 411 00:29:14,381 --> 00:29:16,383 You're pulling the nose up too far, Will! 412 00:29:24,217 --> 00:29:26,001 Will, bring the nose down! 413 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:29,439 Bring it down! 414 00:29:34,009 --> 00:29:35,445 Bring the nose down! 415 00:29:36,838 --> 00:29:38,100 Bring it down! 416 00:29:39,014 --> 00:29:40,407 You're gonna stall! 417 00:29:44,063 --> 00:29:45,194 Will! 418 00:29:45,978 --> 00:29:47,370 My Lord! Will! 419 00:29:52,810 --> 00:29:53,594 Will? 420 00:29:55,901 --> 00:29:57,424 Will? Oh! Will. 421 00:29:59,861 --> 00:30:01,167 Oh! [GROANING] 422 00:30:18,184 --> 00:30:20,186 Exactly how Lilienthal died. 423 00:30:23,929 --> 00:30:25,278 We need more lifting power. 424 00:30:25,408 --> 00:30:27,715 Oh! Yeah. Yeah, lifting power. 425 00:30:27,845 --> 00:30:29,673 What you need is your head examined. 426 00:30:30,848 --> 00:30:33,068 WILBUR: How's the glider? 427 00:30:33,199 --> 00:30:36,158 ORVILLE: I figure it'll take about three days to unbend. 428 00:30:36,289 --> 00:30:37,551 WILBUR: Well, we need a new one, 429 00:30:37,681 --> 00:30:38,944 a new design. 430 00:30:40,075 --> 00:30:42,208 We have to run our own tests. 431 00:30:42,338 --> 00:30:44,601 We can't trust Lilienthal's tables. 432 00:30:44,732 --> 00:30:46,647 You're gonna try to fly it again after that crash? 433 00:30:47,822 --> 00:30:48,954 Next year. 434 00:30:50,477 --> 00:30:52,218 Maybe I'll let Orv do it. 435 00:30:54,046 --> 00:30:54,698 Are we packing it in? 436 00:30:57,136 --> 00:30:58,528 Uh, you go on back home 437 00:30:59,138 --> 00:31:01,444 and set up shop. 438 00:31:01,575 --> 00:31:04,839 I'll stay back here awhile and... And pack up. 439 00:31:04,970 --> 00:31:06,493 Be back next year for sure? 440 00:31:07,102 --> 00:31:08,277 Well, I might not be. 441 00:31:08,408 --> 00:31:09,496 I'm too young to die. 442 00:31:14,457 --> 00:31:18,809 WILBUR: It's about time somebody told the world Lilienthal was wrong. 443 00:31:18,940 --> 00:31:21,595 If I get anything out of this backache, that's it. 444 00:31:21,725 --> 00:31:22,857 ORVILLE: Will, we need proof. 445 00:31:22,988 --> 00:31:24,554 446 00:31:43,921 --> 00:31:45,793 MAN: This isn't McKinley you're dealing with, Professor. 447 00:31:45,923 --> 00:31:48,404 Roosevelt wants results and he wants them soon. 448 00:31:48,535 --> 00:31:50,841 He's not interested in models. 449 00:31:50,972 --> 00:31:52,626 The weights will drop here, 450 00:31:52,756 --> 00:31:55,194 releasing the wire attached to the machine, 451 00:31:55,324 --> 00:31:58,284 thus catapulting the aerodrome clear of the deck 452 00:31:58,414 --> 00:32:01,287 and skyward across the Potomac. 453 00:32:01,417 --> 00:32:03,376 The October winds should be light... 454 00:32:03,506 --> 00:32:05,943 It's not the wind or the motor that worries us, it's the Wright brothers... 455 00:32:06,074 --> 00:32:08,294 Never mind the Wright brothers. 456 00:32:08,424 --> 00:32:10,165 They're a pair of bicycle salesmen. 457 00:32:10,296 --> 00:32:13,342 I personally saw Professor Langley's invention fly. 458 00:32:13,473 --> 00:32:15,475 No less an authority than Octave Chanute 459 00:32:15,605 --> 00:32:17,868 gave a speech on the Wright Brothers' work at the Chicago meeting. 460 00:32:17,999 --> 00:32:19,870 Never mind Chanute! 461 00:32:20,001 --> 00:32:21,872 But Chanute made quite a case for the Wrights. 462 00:32:22,003 --> 00:32:24,658 I was very impressed. You should read the Chanute speech. 463 00:32:24,788 --> 00:32:26,703 Chanute is getting old, gentlemen. 464 00:32:26,834 --> 00:32:30,446 Please, Professor Langley's proven experiences 465 00:32:30,577 --> 00:32:32,709 and downright genius make comparison 466 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:34,972 with these Ohio brothers ridiculous. 467 00:32:35,103 --> 00:32:37,975 To continue, my pilot will strap a compass 468 00:32:38,106 --> 00:32:39,934 to his leg to find the boat. 469 00:32:40,065 --> 00:32:43,068 Dr. Bell, we have studied and restudied what Chanute had to say. 470 00:32:43,198 --> 00:32:45,548 Now, apparently you don't think that's very important. 471 00:32:45,679 --> 00:32:48,986 Should the flight be of such duration and distance that he might be lost... 472 00:32:49,117 --> 00:32:53,861 Professor, the army would feel a great deal more comfortable 473 00:32:53,991 --> 00:32:55,906 if the test could be arranged privately, 474 00:32:56,559 --> 00:32:57,865 to be certain. 475 00:32:57,995 --> 00:32:59,910 Certainty is my business, gentlemen. 476 00:33:00,041 --> 00:33:02,087 A public flight in four weeks 477 00:33:02,217 --> 00:33:05,786 seems an unnecessary risk of Congress's money and our reputation. 478 00:33:05,916 --> 00:33:09,659 There is no need to remind you of his reputation, of course. 479 00:33:09,790 --> 00:33:13,533 Congress will not put one more cent into these flying experiments. 480 00:33:13,663 --> 00:33:15,361 Which is precisely why the age of flight 481 00:33:15,491 --> 00:33:17,406 will proceed as I have scheduled it. 482 00:33:17,537 --> 00:33:19,452 And you can tell that to the Wright Brothers. 483 00:33:19,582 --> 00:33:20,583 [MACHINERY WHIRRING] 484 00:33:39,820 --> 00:33:41,430 Built it myself. Even the motor. 485 00:33:52,441 --> 00:33:53,573 You did this by yourself? 486 00:34:00,232 --> 00:34:01,407 Without me? 487 00:34:05,367 --> 00:34:07,848 You said we have to run our own tests. 488 00:34:07,978 --> 00:34:09,589 If we can't trust Lilienthal's tables, 489 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,547 then we have to be able to trust our own. 490 00:34:18,380 --> 00:34:19,729 It's positively brilliant, Orv. 491 00:34:35,397 --> 00:34:36,746 Just brilliant. 492 00:34:40,663 --> 00:34:42,187 ORVILLE: October 6th. 493 00:34:42,317 --> 00:34:44,276 We will test the effects of wind velocity 494 00:34:44,406 --> 00:34:46,278 on camber and wing curvature 495 00:34:46,408 --> 00:34:48,584 using 150 sheet metal wings 496 00:34:48,715 --> 00:34:49,803 cut to scale. 497 00:34:50,934 --> 00:34:52,153 Two years ago, 498 00:34:52,284 --> 00:34:54,024 Will and I agreed our experiments 499 00:34:54,155 --> 00:34:55,591 should not infringe on the time and money needed 500 00:34:55,722 --> 00:34:58,072 for our bicycle business. 501 00:34:58,203 --> 00:35:00,509 I know now Will's obsession for our tests 502 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,685 will never allow him to keep his own agreement. 503 00:35:03,338 --> 00:35:05,297 October 13th. 504 00:35:05,427 --> 00:35:08,691 Langley's values on wind velocity are based on still air. 505 00:35:08,822 --> 00:35:10,171 Any increase in the average pressure 506 00:35:10,302 --> 00:35:12,869 due to fluctuations of the natural wind 507 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,655 would cause his anemometer to over record. 508 00:35:15,785 --> 00:35:17,831 Discussions of logic often now end 509 00:35:17,961 --> 00:35:20,094 in bad-tempered arguments between us. 510 00:35:20,225 --> 00:35:23,184 Yet a good scrap takes the edge off our tension. 511 00:35:23,315 --> 00:35:25,404 We discover arguing to be the one pleasure we have. 512 00:35:26,448 --> 00:35:28,058 November 10th. 513 00:35:28,189 --> 00:35:30,800 48 differing surfaces have been measured, 514 00:35:30,931 --> 00:35:33,760 each tested at 14 varying angles. 515 00:35:33,890 --> 00:35:36,023 We have lost all notion of time. 516 00:35:36,153 --> 00:35:38,025 Will pays little attention to eating 517 00:35:38,155 --> 00:35:40,462 and he's becoming increasingly fatigued and irritated 518 00:35:40,593 --> 00:35:41,724 with me and his work. 519 00:35:42,508 --> 00:35:44,118 December 11th. 520 00:35:44,249 --> 00:35:45,815 With an eight degree descent, 521 00:35:45,946 --> 00:35:49,645 Lilienthal's lift is double anything we find reasonable. 522 00:35:49,776 --> 00:35:53,040 Clearly, Lilienthal was in greater error than we thought. 523 00:35:53,170 --> 00:35:54,868 There are the specifications for flight. 524 00:35:57,044 --> 00:35:58,828 Now all we have to do is design and build it. 525 00:36:00,961 --> 00:36:03,137 July and August... 526 00:36:03,268 --> 00:36:05,879 That'll give Kate enough time to teach us how to sew. 527 00:36:06,009 --> 00:36:07,272 Sew? 528 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,971 300 square feet of fabric, 529 00:36:11,101 --> 00:36:13,278 every inch of it double stitched. 530 00:36:23,462 --> 00:36:25,420 ORVILLE: We are certain our wind tunnel experiments 531 00:36:25,551 --> 00:36:27,857 have solved the problem of lift. 532 00:36:27,988 --> 00:36:29,642 We've decided to add a tail to the new glider 533 00:36:29,772 --> 00:36:32,471 to help stabilize the craft. 534 00:36:32,601 --> 00:36:35,300 Kate has sensed the tension and furor of excitement 535 00:36:35,430 --> 00:36:37,780 that has begun to occupy all our waking hours. 536 00:36:41,697 --> 00:36:44,004 ORVILLE: Gently... Steer down gently. 537 00:36:53,143 --> 00:36:54,101 Shift your weight! 538 00:36:55,494 --> 00:36:56,843 A little more warp! 539 00:36:58,671 --> 00:37:00,455 Try turning it, Will! 540 00:37:04,894 --> 00:37:05,808 That's it! 541 00:37:06,896 --> 00:37:07,767 Ease her in! 542 00:37:08,158 --> 00:37:09,072 Will! 543 00:37:19,779 --> 00:37:21,868 18.5 and 48 feet further! 544 00:37:25,045 --> 00:37:28,570 Fine, but it's all straight ahead. 545 00:37:28,701 --> 00:37:30,920 If you can't turn, you're not much better than a cannonball. 546 00:37:33,183 --> 00:37:34,663 Next time, we try turning. 547 00:37:36,099 --> 00:37:37,536 Sure... 548 00:37:37,666 --> 00:37:38,841 As long as it's my turn. 549 00:37:48,460 --> 00:37:49,722 WILBUR: Turn it, Orv! 550 00:37:50,287 --> 00:37:51,506 Turn it! 551 00:37:59,558 --> 00:38:00,689 More! 552 00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,736 Turn it, Orv, turn it! 553 00:38:06,042 --> 00:38:06,782 Orv? 554 00:38:09,437 --> 00:38:11,047 Couldn't you turn it anymore? 555 00:38:12,875 --> 00:38:13,789 [GROANS] 556 00:38:19,186 --> 00:38:20,405 You all right, Orv? 557 00:38:24,713 --> 00:38:26,411 Just call me cannonball. 558 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,093 ORVILLE: Three years and we feel we're right back where we started. 559 00:38:58,965 --> 00:39:01,924 The wires from the hip cradle control the wing warping perfectly. 560 00:39:03,404 --> 00:39:06,494 We have a stabilizing tail. 561 00:39:06,625 --> 00:39:08,583 The front elevator is maintaining our angle of incidence. 562 00:39:08,714 --> 00:39:09,845 We don't stall anymore. 563 00:39:11,630 --> 00:39:14,067 But the wind is still controlling us. 564 00:39:14,197 --> 00:39:15,982 The wind turns us when it wants to. 565 00:39:17,810 --> 00:39:19,115 Even if I had an idea, 566 00:39:20,595 --> 00:39:22,554 Will is certain to say he has a better one. 567 00:39:43,879 --> 00:39:46,055 I thought it all out before I went to sleep. 568 00:39:48,275 --> 00:39:49,058 So did I. 569 00:39:52,540 --> 00:39:55,978 You're thinking of replacing the fixed tail with a moveable tail. 570 00:39:57,371 --> 00:39:59,547 Right? 571 00:39:59,678 --> 00:40:02,028 Running a set of wires from either side of the new tail to the wings? 572 00:40:04,247 --> 00:40:05,901 That's right. 573 00:40:06,032 --> 00:40:09,949 The rear rudder will be linked with the wing warping control, 574 00:40:10,079 --> 00:40:12,299 which will counteract warp drag 575 00:40:12,429 --> 00:40:15,737 and give us a single unit of lateral control. 576 00:40:15,868 --> 00:40:16,912 Couldn't have said it better myself. 577 00:40:17,043 --> 00:40:18,871 This is the key, Orv. 578 00:40:20,176 --> 00:40:22,875 One control over all three axes. 579 00:40:37,846 --> 00:40:39,326 ORVILLE: Take it slowly, Will. 580 00:40:41,763 --> 00:40:42,851 Take your time! 581 00:40:47,552 --> 00:40:48,683 Easy. 582 00:40:49,989 --> 00:40:52,339 Turn it, Will. Turn it! 583 00:40:56,735 --> 00:40:58,998 Turn it, Will! Turn it! 584 00:41:03,132 --> 00:41:05,047 -[ALL CHEERING] -You did it, boy! 585 00:41:08,268 --> 00:41:10,836 We were right! We were right, Will. We did it! 586 00:41:13,708 --> 00:41:17,059 -He did it, I tell you! He did it! -We did it, Will! 587 00:41:17,712 --> 00:41:20,149 Ahhh! We did it! 588 00:41:27,766 --> 00:41:29,071 589 00:41:46,175 --> 00:41:48,003 WILBUR: Thus the movement with wires 590 00:41:49,831 --> 00:41:51,398 between wings and tail rudder 591 00:41:52,704 --> 00:41:54,183 provide the flying machine 592 00:41:54,314 --> 00:41:57,926 with balanced equilibrium while in flight, 593 00:41:58,057 --> 00:42:01,190 which is the basis for the invention of improvements in flying machines. 594 00:42:09,590 --> 00:42:11,418 We're ready to file for our patent immediately. 595 00:42:19,034 --> 00:42:20,253 Mr. Toumlin, how long will it take? 596 00:42:22,211 --> 00:42:23,169 The patent. 597 00:42:24,344 --> 00:42:25,301 Mmm... 598 00:42:25,911 --> 00:42:26,999 A year. 599 00:42:28,957 --> 00:42:30,045 Maybe more. 600 00:42:31,394 --> 00:42:33,527 That's the least of your worries. 601 00:42:33,658 --> 00:42:35,137 [CLEARS THROAT] Worries? 602 00:42:40,055 --> 00:42:41,100 Mr. Wright, 603 00:42:42,841 --> 00:42:46,192 In patent law, unfortunately, there is a fine line 604 00:42:46,322 --> 00:42:47,889 between an invention and a discovery. 605 00:42:49,891 --> 00:42:52,024 You haven't designed a new mousetrap here or a can opener. 606 00:42:53,112 --> 00:42:54,679 You've come up with an idea, 607 00:42:55,723 --> 00:42:56,811 a concept... 608 00:42:58,117 --> 00:42:59,379 A historical one to be sure, 609 00:42:59,509 --> 00:43:01,381 one that asks for a pioneer patent. 610 00:43:03,339 --> 00:43:05,864 But ideas are very difficult to patent. 611 00:43:07,430 --> 00:43:09,215 And they're even more difficult to protect. 612 00:43:11,217 --> 00:43:12,174 That's what we're hiring you for. 613 00:43:15,003 --> 00:43:16,222 I shall do my best. 614 00:43:17,223 --> 00:43:19,181 Who knows? 615 00:43:19,312 --> 00:43:21,053 The world may even treat you fairly, 616 00:43:21,183 --> 00:43:22,794 hail your genius, 617 00:43:22,924 --> 00:43:25,361 pay you the license fees you want. 618 00:43:25,492 --> 00:43:28,147 More than likely, the world is going to try and steal you blind. 619 00:43:28,277 --> 00:43:29,931 Is there any place else in the world they're doing 620 00:43:30,062 --> 00:43:31,846 experimental work with gliders? 621 00:43:33,718 --> 00:43:36,242 In France and Germany. 622 00:43:36,372 --> 00:43:38,810 Well, we'll file abroad, too, Germany and France. 623 00:43:40,594 --> 00:43:42,596 Of course, 624 00:43:42,727 --> 00:43:44,990 none of this means much unless you manage to fly before Langley does. 625 00:43:47,470 --> 00:43:49,777 We're working on a four-cylinder motor. 626 00:43:49,908 --> 00:43:51,039 And designs for a propeller. 627 00:43:52,911 --> 00:43:53,999 Good. 628 00:43:55,304 --> 00:43:56,131 Good. 629 00:44:03,922 --> 00:44:06,185 Filing fee for patents is $15. 630 00:44:08,665 --> 00:44:10,319 ORVILLE: I have asked automobile manufacturers 631 00:44:10,450 --> 00:44:13,583 to build us a 12 to 16 horsepower engine. 632 00:44:13,714 --> 00:44:16,412 They lacked the knowledge and the interest, or both. 633 00:44:16,543 --> 00:44:18,937 So we will design our own engine. 634 00:44:19,067 --> 00:44:21,200 Once more, we must rely on our own instincts. 635 00:44:23,811 --> 00:44:27,032 I believe we are now in a race against ourselves as well as Langley, 636 00:44:27,162 --> 00:44:30,122 for our bicycle business now suffers greatly from our neglect. 637 00:44:31,645 --> 00:44:33,473 While the government supports Langley, 638 00:44:33,603 --> 00:44:37,869 there is no-one to help Will and I except Will and I. 639 00:44:37,999 --> 00:44:40,610 The strain of this is affecting Will more than he'll admit. 640 00:44:40,741 --> 00:44:43,396 I find our arguments are no longer a pleasure. 641 00:44:43,526 --> 00:44:46,051 Will seems pursued by a blind fate 642 00:44:46,181 --> 00:44:47,922 from which he is unable to escape. 643 00:44:49,532 --> 00:44:51,883 Will, I've got to have eight more revolutions! 644 00:44:56,844 --> 00:45:00,065 And I've got to have 90 pounds of thrust! 645 00:45:00,195 --> 00:45:03,503 -I gave you 90. -You gave me 87! 646 00:45:03,633 --> 00:45:05,635 Well, whatever I give you, you always want more! 647 00:45:05,766 --> 00:45:07,333 And I always will! 648 00:45:08,987 --> 00:45:10,292 Are you two arguing again? 649 00:45:21,390 --> 00:45:24,045 Whatever Orville gives you, you're always going to want more. 650 00:45:25,786 --> 00:45:28,180 And like your older brother, you'll never settle for less. 651 00:45:30,312 --> 00:45:31,270 What is happening between you two? 652 00:45:34,447 --> 00:45:37,058 I will not allow this machine 653 00:45:37,189 --> 00:45:39,800 to tear apart the bonds of this family. 654 00:45:39,931 --> 00:45:44,413 No propeller, motor, wings, struts, spars... 655 00:45:44,544 --> 00:45:49,331 No, not even flying can become so God Almighty important 656 00:45:49,462 --> 00:45:52,160 that it reduces you to the level of quarreling and dissent. 657 00:45:55,990 --> 00:45:57,122 Is that clear? 658 00:46:00,081 --> 00:46:01,169 Yes, Father. 659 00:46:03,345 --> 00:46:04,869 -Is it? -Yes, Father. 660 00:46:12,789 --> 00:46:14,008 Let that be an end to it. 661 00:46:40,861 --> 00:46:42,341 I gave you 90. 662 00:46:48,608 --> 00:46:51,045 ORVILLE: Our flying machine is to be a biplane 663 00:46:51,176 --> 00:46:53,874 with skids like sled runners for the undercarriage 664 00:46:54,005 --> 00:46:58,792 and flattened wings with a wingspan of 40'4". 665 00:46:58,923 --> 00:47:02,578 It will employ entirely new principles of control. 666 00:47:02,709 --> 00:47:04,363 We have named it after one of our bicycles. 667 00:47:05,233 --> 00:47:06,495 The Wright Flyer. 668 00:47:24,992 --> 00:47:26,167 Easy, Will. 669 00:47:46,492 --> 00:47:47,536 Go! 670 00:48:07,034 --> 00:48:08,122 How was it? 671 00:48:13,780 --> 00:48:14,476 10 seconds. 672 00:48:19,655 --> 00:48:20,787 It's got to be faster. 673 00:48:23,398 --> 00:48:24,399 Let's try it again. 674 00:48:28,316 --> 00:48:31,145 If we're gonna do much more of this, Will, we could use some help. 675 00:48:31,276 --> 00:48:35,062 WILLIAM: I can get you the coast guard boys from the lifesaving station. 676 00:48:35,193 --> 00:48:38,587 WILBUR: Fine! But they mustn't tell anyone what we're up to! 677 00:49:11,664 --> 00:49:12,447 [MOTOR GRINDING] 678 00:49:14,319 --> 00:49:15,668 [RUMBLING] 679 00:49:17,974 --> 00:49:19,541 The propeller shafts... 680 00:49:20,368 --> 00:49:21,543 They're not holding! 681 00:49:27,854 --> 00:49:28,681 Blast it, Orv! 682 00:49:30,378 --> 00:49:33,207 The alignment of those shafts was your responsibility. 683 00:49:33,338 --> 00:49:36,167 How come everything that breaks suddenly becomes my responsibility? 684 00:49:36,297 --> 00:49:38,865 I guess you'd have to chalk it up to cause and effect. 685 00:49:38,995 --> 00:49:41,607 Why don't you try turning the new shafts yourself? 686 00:49:41,737 --> 00:49:43,826 That way you'll know they'll be perfect. Like you are! 687 00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:50,181 WILBUR: Come back here, Orv! 688 00:49:58,667 --> 00:49:59,668 [RUMBLING] 689 00:50:01,279 --> 00:50:02,584 -Kate! -[HORSE WHINNIES] 690 00:50:03,368 --> 00:50:06,501 [EXCLAIMING] 691 00:50:07,720 --> 00:50:09,896 Oh, my, Orville. 692 00:50:10,026 --> 00:50:11,898 What was all that shouting about in there? 693 00:50:12,028 --> 00:50:13,900 There wasn't any shouting. What are you doing here? 694 00:50:14,030 --> 00:50:16,250 Well, I have come to tell you that you are both in trouble 695 00:50:16,381 --> 00:50:17,904 with your lady friends. 696 00:50:18,034 --> 00:50:19,862 Lady friends? 697 00:50:19,993 --> 00:50:22,778 Agnes Osborne is about to get engaged to Blaine Massey. 698 00:50:22,909 --> 00:50:24,737 And Elizabeth Mayfield is seriously thinking 699 00:50:24,867 --> 00:50:27,566 of joining an order of Episcopal nuns. 700 00:50:27,696 --> 00:50:29,437 You came 400 miles to tell us that? 701 00:50:29,568 --> 00:50:31,700 Well, yes, that and about Professor Langley. 702 00:50:31,831 --> 00:50:34,486 -What about him? -He failed. 703 00:50:34,616 --> 00:50:37,053 Rode his fool airplane right into the Potomac. 704 00:50:37,184 --> 00:50:38,925 Whoo-hoo! 705 00:50:39,055 --> 00:50:40,840 Will! Will! 706 00:50:41,797 --> 00:50:42,885 Will! 707 00:50:43,016 --> 00:50:44,278 Kate's here! 708 00:50:45,279 --> 00:50:46,324 She says Langley failed! 709 00:50:46,454 --> 00:50:47,586 Kate, tell him! 710 00:50:57,161 --> 00:50:58,684 What about Langley? 711 00:50:58,814 --> 00:51:01,208 Oh! Well, 712 00:51:01,339 --> 00:51:04,864 he launched his aerodrome off the top of a great houseboat. 713 00:51:04,994 --> 00:51:07,432 Well, it went rumbling down to the end 714 00:51:07,562 --> 00:51:09,608 and plunged right into the river. 715 00:51:11,131 --> 00:51:12,350 Poor Langley. 716 00:51:13,873 --> 00:51:15,875 Well, I guess that does it for him. 717 00:51:16,005 --> 00:51:17,833 No, he says he's going to try it again in three weeks. 718 00:51:18,747 --> 00:51:19,661 Three weeks? 719 00:51:21,794 --> 00:51:24,362 It'll take at least that long to make new shafts. 720 00:51:24,492 --> 00:51:26,755 I can have those new shafts turned in two weeks. 721 00:51:29,410 --> 00:51:31,325 Then we've got an honest shot at it. 722 00:51:33,936 --> 00:51:36,112 Well, you two have been pushing yourselves much too hard. 723 00:51:36,243 --> 00:51:38,767 Now help me. 724 00:51:38,898 --> 00:51:43,032 We are going to rearrange this moderately priced resort hotel 725 00:51:43,163 --> 00:51:44,599 and have dinner, 726 00:51:45,992 --> 00:51:50,083 an outrageously priced standing roast of beef. 727 00:51:50,214 --> 00:51:52,868 There's no roast beef in all the outer bank islands. 728 00:51:52,999 --> 00:51:55,610 Wilbur, I brought it from the mainland. 729 00:52:03,662 --> 00:52:06,926 Well, you two are certainly a proper pair of hermits down here, aren't you? 730 00:52:07,056 --> 00:52:08,232 We don't mind it. 731 00:52:09,972 --> 00:52:12,453 Of course, we miss you and the family. 732 00:52:12,584 --> 00:52:14,368 But you get used to Kitty Hawk. 733 00:52:14,499 --> 00:52:15,717 Best clams in the world. 734 00:52:17,284 --> 00:52:19,068 Well, 735 00:52:19,199 --> 00:52:20,331 I have been thinking... 736 00:52:22,420 --> 00:52:25,466 Oh! There's going to be a big fair in St. Louis next summer, 737 00:52:25,597 --> 00:52:27,729 and I was sort of hoping 738 00:52:27,860 --> 00:52:29,644 that we could all go together. 739 00:52:29,775 --> 00:52:31,864 Oh! We'd have a wonderful time. 740 00:52:31,994 --> 00:52:35,084 And... you could take your flyer 741 00:52:35,215 --> 00:52:37,652 and show the whole world what you've accomplished. 742 00:52:46,270 --> 00:52:48,620 I don't think so, Kate. 743 00:52:48,750 --> 00:52:51,318 We've still got a long way to go, a lot of work. 744 00:52:54,016 --> 00:52:55,366 Kitty Hawk's the best place for that. 745 00:52:56,192 --> 00:52:58,151 [SIGHING] 746 00:52:58,282 --> 00:53:00,153 Well, you can't just bury yourselves down here every summer 747 00:53:00,284 --> 00:53:01,589 for the rest of your lives. 748 00:53:01,720 --> 00:53:03,374 We haven't got a patent yet. 749 00:53:04,505 --> 00:53:05,898 Secrecy is our only protection. 750 00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:09,815 I'm not talking about your airplane. 751 00:53:09,945 --> 00:53:12,774 I'm talking about your personal lives. 752 00:53:12,905 --> 00:53:16,778 About Agnes Osborne and about Elizabeth Mayfield. 753 00:53:16,909 --> 00:53:20,565 Wilbur, do you know what Elizabeth Mayfield is thinking of doing? 754 00:53:20,695 --> 00:53:24,830 Elizabeth Mayfield is thinking of becoming an Episcopal nun! 755 00:53:28,007 --> 00:53:29,704 Well, surely you remember her. 756 00:53:31,140 --> 00:53:32,751 Oh, yes, Elizabeth Mayfield... 757 00:53:32,881 --> 00:53:34,622 I think she'd make an excellent nun. 758 00:53:37,451 --> 00:53:39,627 Oh... [GRUMBLING] 759 00:53:42,630 --> 00:53:44,763 Degenerate, impervious oafs. 760 00:53:46,199 --> 00:53:47,026 What did I say? 761 00:53:48,244 --> 00:53:49,420 I don't know. 762 00:53:50,986 --> 00:53:52,597 I think Elizabeth would make an excellent nun. 763 00:54:02,128 --> 00:54:04,609 What good do you think it's gonna be to run us into the wind? 764 00:54:09,048 --> 00:54:11,877 TOM: Mr. Wilbur? Mr. Wilbur? 765 00:54:16,708 --> 00:54:17,839 What the heck is that? 766 00:54:19,058 --> 00:54:20,364 WILBUR: A flying machine. 767 00:54:24,759 --> 00:54:26,935 Is that fella gonna fly it? 768 00:54:27,066 --> 00:54:28,633 WILBUR: That's what he keeps telling me. 769 00:54:30,243 --> 00:54:32,637 Well, he must be as crazy as that nitwit in Washington. 770 00:54:33,377 --> 00:54:34,508 Which one? 771 00:54:35,553 --> 00:54:37,511 That fella name of Langley. 772 00:54:38,294 --> 00:54:39,774 Two days back, 773 00:54:39,905 --> 00:54:41,863 he flied a machine right into the Potomac river. 774 00:54:41,994 --> 00:54:44,039 [LAUGHING] Second time he done it. 775 00:54:45,563 --> 00:54:47,956 Yeah! Ha! 776 00:54:48,087 --> 00:54:49,088 Orv! 777 00:54:53,658 --> 00:54:55,050 Langley, Orv, 778 00:54:56,095 --> 00:54:58,097 he did it again, 779 00:54:58,227 --> 00:55:00,186 smack into the Potomac. 780 00:55:03,494 --> 00:55:04,843 He should be building boats. 781 00:55:13,112 --> 00:55:14,853 Gentlemen, 782 00:55:14,983 --> 00:55:16,855 any news of what happens here today 783 00:55:16,985 --> 00:55:18,900 should only come from my brother or me. 784 00:55:20,293 --> 00:55:21,425 Is that understood? 785 00:55:24,123 --> 00:55:24,906 Yes, sir! 786 00:55:28,606 --> 00:55:30,259 You ready, Orv? 787 00:55:30,390 --> 00:55:32,044 Sure you wouldn't want to flip again? 788 00:55:32,174 --> 00:55:34,568 No, it's your turn today, fair and square. 789 00:55:47,146 --> 00:55:47,929 Two... 790 00:55:57,373 --> 00:55:58,592 Mr. Daniels? 791 00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:07,949 Now here's the ball. 792 00:56:08,646 --> 00:56:11,692 You stand behind here. 793 00:56:11,823 --> 00:56:15,000 And when Orville gets to the end of the track, you squeeze it. 794 00:56:17,916 --> 00:56:20,396 TOM: It don't look like he pointed right, Will. 795 00:56:20,527 --> 00:56:22,311 Looks like it's set too high. 796 00:56:22,442 --> 00:56:25,706 No, it isn't, Tom. By the time Orville gets there, 797 00:56:25,837 --> 00:56:27,969 it'll be two feet off the ground. 798 00:56:36,543 --> 00:56:38,763 Ready? 799 00:56:38,893 --> 00:56:41,287 Is he really going to fly this time, Will? 800 00:56:41,417 --> 00:56:42,244 Yes, Tom. 801 00:57:05,311 --> 00:57:07,095 All right, let's go. 802 00:57:14,450 --> 00:57:15,626 WILBUR: Easy! 803 00:57:20,369 --> 00:57:21,196 Hey! 804 00:58:13,727 --> 00:58:15,555 [ALL CLAMORING] 805 00:58:15,686 --> 00:58:17,209 REPORTER 1: Miss Wright, are your brothers trying 806 00:58:17,339 --> 00:58:19,298 to keep this machine of theirs a secret? 807 00:58:19,428 --> 00:58:21,561 Have they figured out how much to charge the government 808 00:58:21,692 --> 00:58:22,954 now that Langley has failed? 809 00:58:23,084 --> 00:58:25,696 [MURMURING CONTINUES] 810 00:58:25,826 --> 00:58:27,219 REPORTER 2: All we want is confirmation. 811 00:58:27,349 --> 00:58:29,961 Only the Bishop can confirm you. 812 00:58:30,091 --> 00:58:31,789 REPORTER 3: He means confirmation of the flight. 813 00:58:31,919 --> 00:58:33,834 What proof do you have that they flew? 814 00:58:33,965 --> 00:58:35,662 Well, of course they flew! 815 00:58:35,793 --> 00:58:37,838 Miss Wright, if you don't mind, we'd like to speak to them. 816 00:58:37,969 --> 00:58:39,840 You haven't been listening to what I've been saying. 817 00:58:39,971 --> 00:58:41,668 You can't talk to them, 818 00:58:41,799 --> 00:58:43,104 they have guests. 819 00:58:45,367 --> 00:58:48,066 Oh! Uh, you may step out of the rain. 820 00:58:48,196 --> 00:58:49,110 Thank you! 821 00:58:52,548 --> 00:58:54,246 The reporters will want to see you fly your machine. 822 00:58:54,376 --> 00:58:56,422 They'll demand to take pictures of it. 823 00:58:56,552 --> 00:58:59,033 Demand? They do any demanding around this house, 824 00:58:59,164 --> 00:59:00,818 I'll take a bed slat to them. 825 00:59:00,948 --> 00:59:03,777 Thank you, Bishop. With all due respect, may I continue? 826 00:59:03,908 --> 00:59:07,041 And then the photographs will be studied by everybody. 827 00:59:07,172 --> 00:59:08,782 Everybody from the war department 828 00:59:08,913 --> 00:59:10,262 to every kid who ever built a kite. 829 00:59:10,392 --> 00:59:12,090 They'll all draw their imitations. 830 00:59:12,220 --> 00:59:15,746 Thousands of them will send their plans to the patent office. 831 00:59:15,876 --> 00:59:18,792 I don't see how that affects us, as long as we get there first. 832 00:59:20,272 --> 00:59:23,101 You never know who has friends in Washington. 833 00:59:23,231 --> 00:59:25,930 Things get confused, papers get shuffled. 834 00:59:26,060 --> 00:59:28,759 ORVILLE: It seems that that's exactly what we're paying you for, 835 00:59:28,889 --> 00:59:31,892 to see that the papers don't get shuffled and our rights are protected. 836 00:59:32,023 --> 00:59:34,373 Yes, well, I'll do my best but you two have got to help. 837 00:59:35,853 --> 00:59:39,291 No photographs, no interviews, 838 00:59:39,421 --> 00:59:41,815 sequester yourself, give up flying until after the... 839 00:59:41,946 --> 00:59:44,252 That's out of the question! Just when we're on the... 840 00:59:44,383 --> 00:59:47,691 All right, all right. But at least stay away from Kitty Hawk. 841 00:59:47,821 --> 00:59:49,867 But Kitty Hawk is the best place in the country... 842 00:59:49,997 --> 00:59:53,392 Then find the second-best place! Look, Orville, Wilbur, 843 00:59:53,522 --> 00:59:55,481 I'm not much but I'm the best in the country at what I do 844 00:59:55,611 --> 00:59:57,657 and that's filing patents and making them stick. 845 00:59:57,788 --> 00:59:58,832 Please do as I say. 846 01:00:00,051 --> 01:00:01,443 You insist on flying? All right. 847 01:00:01,574 --> 01:00:03,968 But either find yourself a new sand dune 848 01:00:04,098 --> 01:00:05,752 or find yourself a new lawyer. 849 01:00:15,501 --> 01:00:16,981 ORVILLE: You can't beat it for convenience, Will. 850 01:00:17,111 --> 01:00:18,765 Only a trolley ride from the shop. 851 01:00:18,896 --> 01:00:21,681 Mr. Huffman says we can have it all for next to nothing. 852 01:00:21,812 --> 01:00:23,509 WILBUR: I'm not concerned about the price. 853 01:00:23,639 --> 01:00:25,206 ORVILLE: What are you concerned about? 854 01:00:25,337 --> 01:00:27,382 The wind. I don't think there's enough wind, Orv. 855 01:00:27,513 --> 01:00:30,168 -ORVILLE: There will be. -And the trees are perfect for crashing into. 856 01:00:30,298 --> 01:00:32,387 ORVILLE: They do give us privacy. 857 01:00:32,518 --> 01:00:34,520 WILBUR: They baffle the wind and we don't know how to fly without wind, Orv. 858 01:00:34,650 --> 01:00:36,217 ORVILLE: Well, I guess we'll just have to learn how. 859 01:00:38,132 --> 01:00:39,264 We could put the shed over there. 860 01:00:53,887 --> 01:00:55,933 ORVILLE: While awaiting our patent, 861 01:00:56,063 --> 01:00:58,370 we intend to remain at Mr. Huffman's pasture in secrecy, 862 01:00:58,500 --> 01:01:00,981 learning to build better engines and propellers, 863 01:01:01,112 --> 01:01:03,070 to fly circles, figure-8s, 864 01:01:03,201 --> 01:01:04,942 to fly higher and still higher. 865 01:01:06,421 --> 01:01:09,120 Will has only one wish for our flying machine, 866 01:01:09,250 --> 01:01:10,556 once our patent has been granted, 867 01:01:10,686 --> 01:01:13,124 we will sell it to the United States Government 868 01:01:13,254 --> 01:01:15,256 so that our country will be the first in the world 869 01:01:15,387 --> 01:01:17,911 to own such a valuable invention. 870 01:01:18,042 --> 01:01:21,262 We will have done for the United States what Langley could not do. 871 01:01:32,796 --> 01:01:35,320 WILBUR: I think it's time we both said how we feel, Elizabeth. 872 01:01:42,109 --> 01:01:44,459 The only thing close to me these days is our machine. 873 01:01:48,507 --> 01:01:52,119 Flying is going to be one of the next great human adventures, Elizabeth. 874 01:01:52,250 --> 01:01:55,122 And I believe Orville and I will have a great deal to do with it. 875 01:02:00,824 --> 01:02:02,303 I know how you feel about me. 876 01:02:07,656 --> 01:02:10,485 The truth is, I've been thinking of going away for some time. 877 01:02:13,445 --> 01:02:16,491 I lack the necessary courage for the religious life. 878 01:02:18,624 --> 01:02:22,106 But there are many openings for secretarial positions, 879 01:02:22,236 --> 01:02:24,064 even book keepers, in Cleveland. 880 01:02:24,195 --> 01:02:27,328 Well, I know what it is to go away and try something new. 881 01:02:31,158 --> 01:02:32,333 I did once offer to help you. 882 01:02:33,944 --> 01:02:35,075 I still could. 883 01:02:36,468 --> 01:02:37,382 I appreciate it. 884 01:02:42,517 --> 01:02:44,258 My life is my invention. 885 01:02:53,354 --> 01:02:55,052 I best be getting back. 886 01:03:08,717 --> 01:03:09,936 Happy New Year, Will. 887 01:03:11,416 --> 01:03:12,678 Happy New Year, Elizabeth. 888 01:03:14,723 --> 01:03:15,899 Gid up! 889 01:03:30,435 --> 01:03:32,002 That's all the thrust we can... 890 01:03:34,743 --> 01:03:36,876 That's all the thrust I can give you, 185 pounds. 891 01:03:37,007 --> 01:03:38,443 You were right, Orv. 892 01:03:38,573 --> 01:03:40,880 I want more than you can give. 16 horsepower tops. 893 01:03:41,011 --> 01:03:42,490 That's not enough. 894 01:03:42,621 --> 01:03:45,624 Langley had 50 horses. Look where it got him. 895 01:03:45,754 --> 01:03:47,931 Curtiss, Glenn Curtiss, out of Hammondsport, New York. 896 01:03:48,061 --> 01:03:49,628 Perhaps you've heard of me. 897 01:03:49,758 --> 01:03:52,370 Your man at the shop told me I'd find you out here. 898 01:03:52,500 --> 01:03:54,415 I told him we're all in the same business. 899 01:03:57,027 --> 01:03:58,158 -We are? -We should be. 900 01:03:58,289 --> 01:03:59,594 I'm the best motor man in the world. 901 01:03:59,725 --> 01:04:00,639 May I? 902 01:04:02,293 --> 01:04:03,772 I read about you in December. 903 01:04:03,903 --> 01:04:06,558 I waited to read that you'd flown again. Never did. 904 01:04:06,688 --> 01:04:09,517 What's your reputation got to do with us? 905 01:04:09,648 --> 01:04:11,432 From what I can see here, everything. 906 01:04:11,563 --> 01:04:13,173 I'm on my way to the big fair in St. Louis. 907 01:04:13,304 --> 01:04:14,740 I tried to call you from Columbus. 908 01:04:14,870 --> 01:04:16,655 Uh, seems like you fellows don't have your name 909 01:04:16,785 --> 01:04:18,396 in the Dayton Bell directory anymore. 910 01:04:20,224 --> 01:04:22,182 Obviously you didn't need the telephone. 911 01:04:23,053 --> 01:04:25,055 [CHUCKLES] 912 01:04:25,185 --> 01:04:28,014 You probably don't know, I am world speed champ in motorcycles. 913 01:04:28,145 --> 01:04:29,407 Now I build my own engines. 914 01:04:29,537 --> 01:04:31,409 Last year in Florida, I turned 10 miles 915 01:04:31,539 --> 01:04:33,846 in eight minutes, 54 and 2/10 seconds. 916 01:04:33,977 --> 01:04:35,108 That is a world record. 917 01:04:35,239 --> 01:04:37,023 -Congratulations. -Well, thank you. 918 01:04:37,154 --> 01:04:39,634 Now I can't build one of these 919 01:04:39,765 --> 01:04:43,029 and you can't design motors, not like you need. 920 01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:45,597 You give me one month, I'll design you a vertical eight 921 01:04:45,727 --> 01:04:47,512 that'll supply all the horsepower you'd want. 922 01:04:48,426 --> 01:04:49,470 Now what do you say? 923 01:04:51,690 --> 01:04:53,648 I say there's a faster way to St. Louis 924 01:04:53,779 --> 01:04:55,694 from New York than coming by way of Dayton. 925 01:05:04,920 --> 01:05:05,791 Gentlemen. 926 01:05:11,971 --> 01:05:13,494 WILBUR: The competition is closing in. 927 01:05:14,669 --> 01:05:17,281 -I'll fly next week. -The wind? 928 01:05:17,411 --> 01:05:18,978 What do you know about building catapults? 929 01:05:19,109 --> 01:05:20,719 Catapults? 930 01:05:20,849 --> 01:05:22,721 After all, it was the only good idea Langley had. 931 01:05:27,726 --> 01:05:29,119 ORVILLE: After three years of waiting, 932 01:05:29,249 --> 01:05:30,859 our patent has at last been granted. 933 01:05:32,470 --> 01:05:34,428 We believe it best to say nothing to anyone 934 01:05:34,559 --> 01:05:36,561 and allow no-one outside our family 935 01:05:36,691 --> 01:05:39,564 to see the machine on the ground or in the air. 936 01:05:39,694 --> 01:05:41,827 Until the flyer can be sold to our government, 937 01:05:41,957 --> 01:05:44,308 we must guard against those who may seek to duplicate 938 01:05:44,438 --> 01:05:45,700 the simplicity of our invention. 939 01:05:48,268 --> 01:05:51,097 GLENN: Everyone knows you and Langley have been friends for years. 940 01:05:51,228 --> 01:05:54,709 Langley lies dying, being laughed to death by the world. 941 01:05:56,363 --> 01:05:58,496 It's up to me to see his work through. 942 01:05:58,626 --> 01:06:00,585 I didn't come here to be turned down. 943 01:06:03,675 --> 01:06:05,459 I build motors for flying machines, not kites. 944 01:06:07,026 --> 01:06:09,898 Uh, Mr. Curtiss, 945 01:06:10,029 --> 01:06:11,770 do you know how much money a government contract 946 01:06:11,900 --> 01:06:14,468 to build airplanes could be worth? 947 01:06:14,599 --> 01:06:15,991 I'm flattered you've come to me, 948 01:06:16,122 --> 01:06:17,645 especially considering who you are, Dr. Bell, 949 01:06:17,776 --> 01:06:19,821 but the answer is still no. 950 01:06:19,952 --> 01:06:21,954 Well, then why did you tell everyone in St. Louis 951 01:06:22,085 --> 01:06:23,347 that you were going to fly? 952 01:06:23,477 --> 01:06:26,045 I am, but not on one of those contraptions. 953 01:06:26,176 --> 01:06:28,221 I am going to build myself a Wright Brothers machine. 954 01:06:29,875 --> 01:06:31,746 Wright Brothers? 955 01:06:31,877 --> 01:06:33,444 What do you know about them or their machine? 956 01:06:35,359 --> 01:06:36,534 I've seen it. 957 01:06:37,839 --> 01:06:39,580 You've actually seen it, close up? 958 01:06:40,799 --> 01:06:41,930 They invited me over to their house, 959 01:06:42,061 --> 01:06:43,628 we had quite a pleasant dinner together. 960 01:06:50,722 --> 01:06:52,506 Could you really build one just like it? 961 01:06:53,464 --> 01:06:54,769 I work for money, Dr. Bell. 962 01:06:57,076 --> 01:06:57,859 Exactly so. 963 01:06:59,339 --> 01:07:00,558 Mr. Duke! 964 01:07:04,083 --> 01:07:05,128 Bring the contract. 965 01:07:09,784 --> 01:07:11,134 Come, come, come, come. 966 01:07:33,199 --> 01:07:35,158 [MOTOR WHIRRING] 967 01:07:42,121 --> 01:07:43,949 ORVILLE: I hope it's enough weight this time. 968 01:07:44,079 --> 01:07:45,777 WILBUR: Orv, all we're trying to do 969 01:07:45,907 --> 01:07:48,301 is get off the ground a little faster. 970 01:07:48,432 --> 01:07:50,390 Besides, I calculated it. 971 01:07:50,521 --> 01:07:52,566 I've never been wrong yet. 972 01:07:53,350 --> 01:07:55,569 Whose turn to fly is it? 973 01:07:55,700 --> 01:07:57,919 ORVILLE: Yours, Will. It's all yours. 974 01:07:59,225 --> 01:08:00,531 975 01:08:32,040 --> 01:08:34,652 WILBUR: Higher. Higher. 976 01:09:25,442 --> 01:09:27,879 It can do 125 miles an hour. 977 01:09:28,009 --> 01:09:29,663 I am still the fastest man on earth. 978 01:09:29,794 --> 01:09:31,578 And I'm shooting for 130. 979 01:09:31,709 --> 01:09:34,581 The airplane, Mr. Curtiss, where is it? 980 01:09:34,712 --> 01:09:37,018 I want it fast, Mr. Bell, powerful. 981 01:09:37,149 --> 01:09:39,151 In order to fly, I need the correct engine. 982 01:09:39,282 --> 01:09:41,240 You were supposed to build it for me by now. 983 01:09:41,371 --> 01:09:43,851 Well, I had to go and close out the St. Louis fair 984 01:09:43,982 --> 01:09:44,896 and get paid for my work. 985 01:09:46,811 --> 01:09:48,334 I see. 986 01:09:48,465 --> 01:09:50,641 Well, if you need more money, discuss it with Mr. Newell. 987 01:09:52,991 --> 01:09:55,820 I'm moving into your house, Mr. Curtiss. 988 01:09:55,950 --> 01:09:58,736 We're gonna work side by side to build that airplane. 989 01:10:00,999 --> 01:10:02,305 I want a machine better than the Wrights'. 990 01:10:03,654 --> 01:10:05,569 Well, that should be easy. 991 01:10:05,699 --> 01:10:07,745 You should still study their plans. 992 01:10:07,875 --> 01:10:10,095 Nobody ever got anywhere in this country 993 01:10:11,662 --> 01:10:13,794 without improving on somebody else's idea. 994 01:10:15,143 --> 01:10:16,754 It's what makes Henry Ford first. 995 01:10:17,363 --> 01:10:19,409 [CHUCKLING] 996 01:10:19,539 --> 01:10:22,281 I'll be moving in on Monday. 997 01:10:22,412 --> 01:10:25,328 Your contract provided that you will build an airplane that flies 998 01:10:26,154 --> 01:10:26,938 within six months. 999 01:10:32,813 --> 01:10:35,468 WILBUR: There can only be one reason Curtiss has been hired. 1000 01:10:36,426 --> 01:10:37,731 To steal our idea. 1001 01:10:40,125 --> 01:10:44,608 The only thing worse would be if Henry Ford set out to build flying machines. 1002 01:10:44,738 --> 01:10:46,131 He's done enough to the bicycle trade. 1003 01:10:48,089 --> 01:10:50,831 You've never cared about the race. 1004 01:10:50,962 --> 01:10:53,834 This time, we're in a race against our own invention. 1005 01:10:57,664 --> 01:10:58,839 Well, then it's time we move. 1006 01:11:02,365 --> 01:11:05,019 Without lawyers, on our own. 1007 01:11:14,333 --> 01:11:17,641 WILBUR: "To the Honorable William Howard Taft, 1008 01:11:17,771 --> 01:11:20,557 "Secretary of War, Washington, D.C. 1009 01:11:21,471 --> 01:11:23,690 "Dear sir, 1010 01:11:23,821 --> 01:11:26,737 "the series of aeronautical experiments 1011 01:11:26,867 --> 01:11:31,045 "which my brother and I have been engaged in for the past five years 1012 01:11:31,176 --> 01:11:33,221 "has ended in the production of a flying machine 1013 01:11:33,352 --> 01:11:36,529 "fitted for practical use by our government." 1014 01:11:36,660 --> 01:11:40,881 TAFT: "Our flights prove flying has at last and conclusively 1015 01:11:41,012 --> 01:11:43,101 "been brought to a point of great practical use, 1016 01:11:45,233 --> 01:11:47,497 "one of which is that of scouting 1017 01:11:47,627 --> 01:11:49,760 "and carrying messages in time of war. 1018 01:11:51,675 --> 01:11:54,068 "Early interest on your part 1019 01:11:54,199 --> 01:11:56,767 "will greatly assist us in making future plans. 1020 01:11:58,290 --> 01:11:59,073 "Sincerely, 1021 01:11:59,900 --> 01:12:00,988 "the Wright Brothers." 1022 01:12:04,427 --> 01:12:05,732 Just remember, gentlemen, 1023 01:12:08,256 --> 01:12:10,563 Langley is your boast... 1024 01:12:12,304 --> 01:12:13,479 not mine. 1025 01:12:29,408 --> 01:12:31,802 Oh! I wish he'd go a bit higher above the trees. 1026 01:12:46,164 --> 01:12:47,861 Now do you have time to open your mail? 1027 01:12:49,559 --> 01:12:50,647 ORVILLE: Okay. 1028 01:13:01,396 --> 01:13:02,397 [CHUCKLING] 1029 01:13:02,528 --> 01:13:03,964 [INDISTINCT] 1030 01:13:13,017 --> 01:13:14,497 What does it say, Orville? 1031 01:13:14,627 --> 01:13:17,064 It's from the Secretary of War William Howard Taft. 1032 01:13:17,195 --> 01:13:19,589 "Regarding your application for funding, 1033 01:13:19,719 --> 01:13:22,505 "The board of ordinance and fortification of the United States army... 1034 01:13:26,378 --> 01:13:28,336 "declines to make any financial allotments 1035 01:13:28,467 --> 01:13:31,209 "for the experimental development of devices 1036 01:13:31,339 --> 01:13:32,253 "for mechanical flight 1037 01:13:33,472 --> 01:13:35,039 "and has further determined 1038 01:13:35,169 --> 01:13:38,042 "that your machine has not yet been brought to the stage 1039 01:13:38,172 --> 01:13:39,826 "of practical operation." 1040 01:13:51,795 --> 01:13:53,884 BISHOP: I've never seen Wilbur so happy. 1041 01:13:57,757 --> 01:14:00,064 It's too bad he can't just stay up there. 1042 01:14:28,832 --> 01:14:30,877 [ALL CHEERING] 1043 01:14:31,661 --> 01:14:34,054 [ENGINE SPUTTERING] 1044 01:15:09,742 --> 01:15:11,875 [SPUTTERING INCREASES] 1045 01:15:23,451 --> 01:15:24,148 Glenn! 1046 01:15:27,020 --> 01:15:29,066 You can be very proud, Glenn. 1047 01:15:29,196 --> 01:15:30,633 We've accomplished in a little a year 1048 01:15:30,763 --> 01:15:32,896 what it took the Wright Brothers four years to do! 1049 01:15:33,026 --> 01:15:35,333 Not hardly. 1050 01:15:35,463 --> 01:15:37,596 Glenn, you're the first American to fly a mile in public. 1051 01:15:37,727 --> 01:15:41,078 Scientific American gave you the trophy! 1052 01:15:41,208 --> 01:15:43,341 Well, you can give it to the Wright Brothers 1053 01:15:43,471 --> 01:15:44,647 when you see 'em next. 1054 01:15:45,517 --> 01:15:46,344 They deserve it. 1055 01:15:49,390 --> 01:15:52,002 What did I do? I'll tell you what, I flew. 1056 01:15:52,829 --> 01:15:54,134 Did you see me turn? 1057 01:15:55,570 --> 01:15:58,138 I nearly lost the airplane and my life. 1058 01:16:00,184 --> 01:16:03,666 What difference does it make if you fly a mile or 100 miles? 1059 01:16:03,796 --> 01:16:07,060 If you can't turn with confidence, 1060 01:16:08,366 --> 01:16:10,977 you can't even compete with barn swallows. 1061 01:16:12,283 --> 01:16:13,153 [SIGHING] 1062 01:16:20,639 --> 01:16:23,076 How is it that the Wrights can turn easily and you can't? 1063 01:16:25,557 --> 01:16:29,126 Because I don't know everything they know. 1064 01:16:48,623 --> 01:16:50,103 1065 01:17:05,336 --> 01:17:07,207 ORVILLE: Being rejected by our own government 1066 01:17:07,338 --> 01:17:09,644 and our financial resources nearly gone, 1067 01:17:09,775 --> 01:17:12,517 we are now forced to do what we did not want to do. 1068 01:17:12,647 --> 01:17:15,912 In the company of an agent who has sold the submarine to Russia, 1069 01:17:16,042 --> 01:17:18,436 we will offer to sell our invention to all of Europe. 1070 01:17:20,481 --> 01:17:24,398 For all our years of work, we have achieved some fame and no money. 1071 01:17:24,529 --> 01:17:28,054 Curtiss, in far less time, is taking both prizes. 1072 01:17:28,185 --> 01:17:30,840 I cannot be sure which has hurt Will more, 1073 01:17:30,970 --> 01:17:32,972 being unwanted in his own country 1074 01:17:33,103 --> 01:17:34,757 or Glenn Curtiss's success. 1075 01:17:38,238 --> 01:17:41,720 ORVILLE: Higher and higher the magnificent glider rises above your marvelous big top 1076 01:17:41,851 --> 01:17:44,592 of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey circuses, 1077 01:17:44,723 --> 01:17:48,640 borne aloft into God's blue sky by a powerful hot air balloon, 1078 01:17:48,771 --> 01:17:50,990 higher and higher, 1079 01:17:51,121 --> 01:17:54,211 astonishing the people watching in the racetrack grandstands below. 1080 01:17:54,341 --> 01:17:57,040 And now, two men prepare to defy death. 1081 01:17:57,170 --> 01:17:59,129 As the balloon releases the glider, 1082 01:17:59,259 --> 01:18:01,000 the daredevil Wright Brothers are cast adrift 1083 01:18:01,131 --> 01:18:03,089 500 feet above the earth! 1084 01:18:03,220 --> 01:18:06,092 Will they survive? Can they bring their craft safely to earth? 1085 01:18:06,223 --> 01:18:08,965 It does not seem possible, for if God had meant men to fly, 1086 01:18:09,095 --> 01:18:10,793 he would have given them wings. 1087 01:18:10,923 --> 01:18:12,751 -They're falling. They're falling... -Orville? Orville! 1088 01:18:12,882 --> 01:18:15,058 -Here they come! -Drop everything, we've got to talk. 1089 01:18:15,188 --> 01:18:16,624 MAN: Wait, wait, he's right in the middle! 1090 01:18:16,755 --> 01:18:18,844 -It can't wait! -What about the Wright Brothers? 1091 01:18:18,975 --> 01:18:21,673 I'm looking after the Wright Brothers if you don't mind. 1092 01:18:21,804 --> 01:18:25,068 -What happens? -They land safely in the middle of the racetrack. 1093 01:18:25,198 --> 01:18:28,288 Don't worry. We won't talk to Buffalo Bill until we have your answer. 1094 01:18:31,422 --> 01:18:34,294 Buffalo Bill? Have you lost your mind? 1095 01:18:34,425 --> 01:18:36,601 No, just a bit of pride. What is all this about? 1096 01:18:38,603 --> 01:18:41,519 President Roosevelt has called William Howard Taft 1097 01:18:41,649 --> 01:18:44,870 and his generals on the carpet. 1098 01:18:45,001 --> 01:18:46,698 He wants to know why Wilbur Wright was forced to go to Europe 1099 01:18:46,829 --> 01:18:49,744 to sell his airplanes. 1100 01:18:49,875 --> 01:18:52,356 Tell him the Honorable Mr. Taft doesn't believe we can fly. 1101 01:18:53,705 --> 01:18:55,098 Cable Wilbur. 1102 01:18:55,228 --> 01:18:56,490 The President wants him back here. 1103 01:18:58,014 --> 01:18:59,929 You're to fly for the army as soon as you can get ready. 1104 01:19:01,887 --> 01:19:02,714 Good heavens. 1105 01:19:03,715 --> 01:19:05,325 How long have we been waiting to hear that? 1106 01:19:09,329 --> 01:19:10,983 What does the army want us to do? 1107 01:19:12,419 --> 01:19:16,293 Fly for an hour at 40 miles an hour, 1108 01:19:16,423 --> 01:19:18,338 and build a machine that can carry two men. 1109 01:19:19,513 --> 01:19:21,559 -Can you do it? -We've already done it. 1110 01:19:21,689 --> 01:19:23,213 1111 01:19:43,494 --> 01:19:45,713 REPORTER 1: Five years ago this Christmas you wouldn't talk to me. 1112 01:19:45,844 --> 01:19:47,280 Are you talking to me now? 1113 01:19:47,411 --> 01:19:48,891 I was there at your first public flight. 1114 01:19:49,021 --> 01:19:51,894 Four years is a long time to hide, Mr. Wright. 1115 01:19:52,024 --> 01:19:54,418 How does it feel to be a part of history on two continents? 1116 01:19:58,857 --> 01:20:02,382 REPORTER 1: How come you're not answering our questions, Mr. Wright? 1117 01:20:02,513 --> 01:20:04,428 REPORTER 2: How come you been hiding so long? 1118 01:20:08,040 --> 01:20:11,087 I'm not interested in making history, gentlemen. 1119 01:20:11,217 --> 01:20:12,610 I'm not interested even in talking. 1120 01:20:14,612 --> 01:20:17,571 REPORTER 3: What are you interested in then, Mr. Wright? 1121 01:20:17,702 --> 01:20:20,444 ORVILLE: Just speed, gentlemen, just speed. 1122 01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:22,707 Clear the way. 1123 01:20:54,304 --> 01:20:56,088 She's really good, isn't she? 1124 01:20:57,176 --> 01:20:59,352 [ALL CHEERING] 1125 01:21:15,020 --> 01:21:17,501 [PLANE STALLING] 1126 01:21:22,723 --> 01:21:23,637 What? 1127 01:21:26,379 --> 01:21:28,164 [PEOPLE SCREAMING] 1128 01:21:50,795 --> 01:21:52,623 [ALL MURMURING] 1129 01:21:55,408 --> 01:21:57,019 Compound fracture of the tibia... 1130 01:22:00,326 --> 01:22:01,675 Four fractured ribs. 1131 01:22:05,418 --> 01:22:07,203 Barring any internal injury, 1132 01:22:08,856 --> 01:22:10,162 you're a very lucky man. 1133 01:22:15,298 --> 01:22:16,473 Lieutenant Selfridge is dead. 1134 01:22:20,955 --> 01:22:22,479 That does not make me lucky. 1135 01:22:36,580 --> 01:22:38,886 Sergeant, Orville Wright is a friend of mine. 1136 01:22:39,017 --> 01:22:41,541 I'm here to discover what caused this crash. 1137 01:22:41,672 --> 01:22:43,500 I've got orders, sir, to let nobody in here. 1138 01:22:44,588 --> 01:22:47,025 I am Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, 1139 01:22:47,156 --> 01:22:50,289 the President himself has authorized me to conduct aerial investigation. 1140 01:22:50,420 --> 01:22:51,769 I don't care who you are. 1141 01:22:51,899 --> 01:22:53,466 I'm Glenn Curtiss. You know me? 1142 01:22:54,424 --> 01:22:56,904 Oh! Yes, sir. I do. 1143 01:22:57,035 --> 01:22:59,646 You can understand why we have to get in here. 1144 01:22:59,777 --> 01:23:01,126 Sir... Sir, I... 1145 01:23:12,659 --> 01:23:15,009 How in the world did he ever survive this? 1146 01:23:15,140 --> 01:23:18,752 Now the patent says the vertical tail is operated by wires 1147 01:23:20,276 --> 01:23:21,973 controlling the wing tips. 1148 01:23:22,104 --> 01:23:23,322 I'm not interested in that patent. 1149 01:23:23,453 --> 01:23:24,802 I want to know why they crashed. 1150 01:23:24,932 --> 01:23:27,326 Look, you can see it. It's just like their patent. 1151 01:23:30,721 --> 01:23:34,116 It's a coordinated action of wing-tips and rudder. 1152 01:23:34,246 --> 01:23:35,900 BELL: Forget the patent, Glenn. 1153 01:23:36,030 --> 01:23:38,511 I want to find out why he crashed. 1154 01:23:38,642 --> 01:23:41,819 That's a set of wires so uncomplicated 1155 01:23:41,949 --> 01:23:43,647 that the best scientists in the world couldn't see it. 1156 01:23:58,923 --> 01:24:01,447 You'll be using their idea without permission. 1157 01:24:01,578 --> 01:24:03,797 Come on, Dr. Bell, I'm about to get rich and famous... 1158 01:24:05,538 --> 01:24:07,758 without so much as a telephone call. 1159 01:24:07,888 --> 01:24:09,238 [CHUCKLING] 1160 01:24:22,816 --> 01:24:24,601 1161 01:24:51,671 --> 01:24:53,238 ORVILLE: The crash at Fort Myer 1162 01:24:53,369 --> 01:24:56,067 did not deter acceptance of our flying machine. 1163 01:24:56,198 --> 01:24:58,156 The army gave us a contract. 1164 01:24:58,287 --> 01:25:00,854 Almost immediately, the navy gave their contract to Curtiss. 1165 01:25:02,204 --> 01:25:03,683 We share Europe with him, too. 1166 01:25:04,510 --> 01:25:06,860 Wherever Will, Kate and I go, 1167 01:25:06,991 --> 01:25:10,081 Curtiss has already been there or is on his way. 1168 01:25:10,212 --> 01:25:13,432 Mr. Toumlin always did say Will and I were frank as schoolboys, 1169 01:25:13,563 --> 01:25:16,479 but will put it right in print in theScientific American 1170 01:25:16,609 --> 01:25:19,133 for all the world and Curtiss to read, 1171 01:25:19,264 --> 01:25:23,660 charging him with using our patent to make profits for himself. 1172 01:25:23,790 --> 01:25:26,706 We have no objection to anyone using our invention for pleasure, 1173 01:25:26,837 --> 01:25:28,969 but not for profit. 1174 01:25:29,100 --> 01:25:31,842 We have decided to file a patent suit against Curtiss. 1175 01:25:31,972 --> 01:25:35,280 To Will, Glenn Curtiss had stolen his dream... 1176 01:25:35,411 --> 01:25:36,977 the only dream will ever had. 1177 01:25:38,065 --> 01:25:39,676 1178 01:27:02,628 --> 01:27:04,064 The Hudson-Fulton Celebration. 1179 01:27:05,457 --> 01:27:06,937 $15,000 plus expenses. 1180 01:27:09,331 --> 01:27:11,855 All you have to do is fly 10 miles up the Hudson river 1181 01:27:12,551 --> 01:27:14,161 and return. 1182 01:27:14,292 --> 01:27:16,686 They've never seen an airplane fly in New York. 1183 01:27:18,775 --> 01:27:21,691 You couldn't ask for a better showcase 1184 01:27:21,821 --> 01:27:23,693 for Wall Street and all those big money boys. 1185 01:27:24,302 --> 01:27:25,390 It's all yours. 1186 01:27:26,957 --> 01:27:28,306 It's not enough. 1187 01:27:28,437 --> 01:27:31,483 Now, Glenn, I can't go asking them for more money. 1188 01:27:32,876 --> 01:27:34,617 I want to fly against Wilbur Wright. 1189 01:27:34,747 --> 01:27:37,402 -You don't need him. -Ha! I do. 1190 01:27:37,533 --> 01:27:39,926 Oh, don't be a fool. Why ask him to share in your glory? 1191 01:27:40,057 --> 01:27:42,364 Because I want the skies all to myself. 1192 01:27:42,494 --> 01:27:44,931 I want the world to know that Glenn Curtiss is not only a better inventor, 1193 01:27:45,062 --> 01:27:47,194 he is a better aviator as well. 1194 01:27:47,325 --> 01:27:48,108 Wilbur Wright's tired. 1195 01:27:49,196 --> 01:27:51,242 He's worn out from Europe. 1196 01:27:51,373 --> 01:27:54,463 All he wants to do is to build his airplanes and retire. 1197 01:27:54,593 --> 01:27:56,116 I'll retire him, Mr. Newell. 1198 01:27:57,553 --> 01:27:58,989 You get Wilbur Wright to New York. 1199 01:28:11,610 --> 01:28:13,220 ORVILLE: I agree with you, Will. 1200 01:28:13,351 --> 01:28:15,135 Our patent suit against Curtiss is going to take years. 1201 01:28:17,921 --> 01:28:19,966 I would feel better about this 1202 01:28:20,097 --> 01:28:21,707 if you had more time to rest 1203 01:28:21,838 --> 01:28:23,230 and regain your strength. 1204 01:28:23,361 --> 01:28:26,146 No, Kate, I have to go along with Will. 1205 01:28:26,277 --> 01:28:28,192 He's never flown publicly in his own country. 1206 01:28:30,063 --> 01:28:32,196 It's his decision to make and he made it. 1207 01:28:32,326 --> 01:28:34,503 Pride has nothing to do with Will's health. 1208 01:28:35,547 --> 01:28:38,071 You are 42 years old, Wilbur, 1209 01:28:38,202 --> 01:28:40,509 giving away eight years of reactions to Curtiss. 1210 01:28:42,424 --> 01:28:44,121 If I've made a mistake, 1211 01:28:44,251 --> 01:28:46,166 it was keeping our invention from the public for too long. 1212 01:28:47,820 --> 01:28:49,735 We'll all be there. 1213 01:28:49,866 --> 01:28:51,824 It's not just Will who's accepted Curtiss's challenge, it's all of us. 1214 01:28:59,179 --> 01:29:01,051 Look, Will, the last rose of summer. 1215 01:29:04,924 --> 01:29:06,535 It's not the competition, is it? 1216 01:29:07,623 --> 01:29:08,928 Or the money or the glory? 1217 01:29:10,843 --> 01:29:12,628 It's more than that, isn't it, Will? 1218 01:29:14,325 --> 01:29:15,544 Recognition, Kate. 1219 01:29:16,936 --> 01:29:18,547 Recognition of our first flight. 1220 01:29:30,776 --> 01:29:32,038 Not all the roses, 1221 01:29:33,387 --> 01:29:34,127 just one. 1222 01:29:46,226 --> 01:29:47,793 1223 01:30:21,479 --> 01:30:23,525 [WIND WHOOSHING] 1224 01:30:27,703 --> 01:30:29,269 What did the Wright Brothers say? 1225 01:30:29,400 --> 01:30:31,576 The Wrights are stubborn people. 1226 01:30:31,707 --> 01:30:33,752 They don't talk to no-one. 1227 01:30:33,883 --> 01:30:37,364 But I've sent word to them same as I'm telling you 1228 01:30:37,495 --> 01:30:40,411 -as Mayor of New York. -Wind can't last forever. 1229 01:30:40,542 --> 01:30:43,414 What's the wind got to do with flying an airplane? 1230 01:30:43,545 --> 01:30:46,243 People are laughing at me already for bringing you two here. 1231 01:30:46,373 --> 01:30:49,246 Millions of people are waiting for you to fly. 1232 01:30:49,376 --> 01:30:53,119 Either do so or forfeit the $15,000 we're paying you. 1233 01:30:53,642 --> 01:30:54,773 Driver. 1234 01:31:01,388 --> 01:31:03,216 I've got a good show in St. Louis booked for next week. 1235 01:31:03,347 --> 01:31:05,001 You don't need this! 1236 01:31:05,131 --> 01:31:06,611 They're not gonna risk this wind any more than you are. 1237 01:31:28,328 --> 01:31:30,243 WILBUR: Depending on the wind, 1238 01:31:30,374 --> 01:31:32,550 I should make it to the first checkpoint in 10 or 15 minutes. 1239 01:31:32,681 --> 01:31:34,421 KATE: Watch out where you're going, Will. 1240 01:31:34,552 --> 01:31:36,554 WILBUR: And once over grant's tomb, I'll circle back 1241 01:31:36,685 --> 01:31:38,643 -to the Statue of Liberty. -Oh! I am sorry. 1242 01:31:38,774 --> 01:31:40,297 Charlie has the weights ready? 1243 01:31:40,427 --> 01:31:42,647 Yes, he said he'd have it all set by midnight. 1244 01:31:42,778 --> 01:31:44,083 -Good. -I'm awfully sorry. 1245 01:31:44,214 --> 01:31:45,998 -We probably don't even need them. -Will. 1246 01:31:46,129 --> 01:31:47,739 -[WIND WHOOSHING] -[TALKING INDISTINCTLY] 1247 01:31:47,870 --> 01:31:49,611 KATE: ...safer than you and your canoe. I beg your pardon. 1248 01:31:49,741 --> 01:31:52,004 [WILBUR GRUNTS] 1249 01:31:52,135 --> 01:31:53,702 -You all right? -Yeah, I'm fine. 1250 01:31:53,832 --> 01:31:56,313 You just make sure I don't hit anybody. 1251 01:31:56,443 --> 01:31:57,183 I'm awfully sorry. 1252 01:31:58,228 --> 01:32:01,100 [WIND CONTINUES WHOOSHING] 1253 01:32:09,108 --> 01:32:11,110 I remember sitting up with Langley 1254 01:32:11,241 --> 01:32:12,938 the night before his last flight. 1255 01:32:15,549 --> 01:32:17,247 It was a windy. Long cold night. 1256 01:32:20,293 --> 01:32:23,645 We had no choice but to risk the winds over the water, Glenn. 1257 01:32:23,775 --> 01:32:24,950 You do! 1258 01:32:26,343 --> 01:32:27,953 If a man's not first, he's nothing. 1259 01:32:29,346 --> 01:32:31,653 I've worked to be a winner all my life. 1260 01:32:31,783 --> 01:32:33,002 Think I'm stopping here? 1261 01:32:33,785 --> 01:32:35,004 Not if you live long enough. 1262 01:32:41,358 --> 01:32:43,795 The winds will be calmest just before dawn. 1263 01:32:50,802 --> 01:32:52,848 [WIND WHOOSHING] 1264 01:33:00,420 --> 01:33:01,813 WILBUR: It's not quite the sea plane 1265 01:33:01,944 --> 01:33:03,336 Curtiss is building for the navy. 1266 01:33:06,775 --> 01:33:09,168 [LAUGHING] $50 buys a lot at Abercrombie. 1267 01:33:12,911 --> 01:33:13,999 You know, Kate? 1268 01:33:14,130 --> 01:33:15,218 I'd like to build us a house. 1269 01:33:17,220 --> 01:33:18,177 A house? 1270 01:33:21,093 --> 01:33:23,269 Father will have his own library. 1271 01:33:23,400 --> 01:33:25,445 You'll have your own music room all to yourself. 1272 01:33:27,273 --> 01:33:29,188 And Orv and I will have our own workrooms. 1273 01:33:31,016 --> 01:33:32,670 That sounds wonderful. 1274 01:33:32,801 --> 01:33:34,324 And it won't be just any house. 1275 01:33:36,021 --> 01:33:37,457 It must be on a hill 1276 01:33:39,938 --> 01:33:42,071 with the grandest view in all Ohio. 1277 01:33:46,075 --> 01:33:49,861 And I'll design it and we'll all live there together. 1278 01:33:54,213 --> 01:33:57,521 Well, there he is, right on time. 1279 01:34:15,147 --> 01:34:18,455 I always figured him to be crazy. 1280 01:34:18,585 --> 01:34:20,892 He wouldn't take it if he weren't worried about failing. 1281 01:34:47,745 --> 01:34:49,442 WILBUR: Windy morning. 1282 01:34:49,573 --> 01:34:51,183 GLENN: We'll talk about that when I get back. 1283 01:34:52,794 --> 01:34:54,273 Assuming you do get back. 1284 01:34:56,710 --> 01:34:58,277 I see you're planning a canoe ride. 1285 01:35:00,366 --> 01:35:01,237 Maybe. 1286 01:35:02,412 --> 01:35:03,979 But you don't have to worry 1287 01:35:04,109 --> 01:35:06,503 because your plane isn't fast enough or strong enough 1288 01:35:06,633 --> 01:35:09,419 -to get off the ground in these winds. -You think so? 1289 01:35:09,549 --> 01:35:12,291 You're a summertime flier, Mr. Curtiss, 1290 01:35:12,422 --> 01:35:14,250 when the weather's hot and the winds are calm. 1291 01:35:15,729 --> 01:35:18,123 You don't know me or my airplane. 1292 01:35:18,254 --> 01:35:20,125 I know you have the courage of a thief. 1293 01:35:24,782 --> 01:35:27,176 Now show me what you know about the winds. 1294 01:35:37,012 --> 01:35:38,230 [ENGINE STARTING] 1295 01:35:54,899 --> 01:35:57,206 [ENGINE RUMBLING] 1296 01:36:37,986 --> 01:36:39,639 [ENGINE WHIRRING] 1297 01:37:49,666 --> 01:37:51,015 1298 01:38:53,338 --> 01:38:55,862 ORVILLE: Three years after that historic flight over New York City 1299 01:38:55,993 --> 01:38:57,864 and around the Statue of Liberty, 1300 01:38:57,995 --> 01:39:00,041 Will became ill with typhoid fever 1301 01:39:00,171 --> 01:39:03,479 during the bitter patent fight with Glenn Curtiss. 1302 01:39:03,609 --> 01:39:06,264 He never lived to see the house he wanted to build. 1303 01:39:06,395 --> 01:39:09,093 He died on May 30th, 1912, 1304 01:39:09,224 --> 01:39:11,530 just two years before the courts confirmed our patent. 1305 01:39:12,966 --> 01:39:14,098 Will saw the future 1306 01:39:14,229 --> 01:39:15,491 as sure as if he had lived it. 1307 01:39:17,536 --> 01:39:20,539 The flyer was a result of known technology of the day, 1308 01:39:20,670 --> 01:39:24,543 our own skills, and the one thing that sets man apart, 1309 01:39:24,674 --> 01:39:27,633 the ability to create what did not exist before. 1310 01:39:28,765 --> 01:39:30,419 The invention was his life.