Season 10 · Episode 82 of 86 Aired Dec 17, 2003

Technology of Kitty Hawk

Wed, Dec 17, 2003

Streaming on Prime Video, DirecTV On Demand, The History Channel, Tubi TV + 6 more

0 of 86 watched this season

Next: S10 E83

Two brainy bicycle makers…a remote North Carolina moonscape…and an impossible dream. On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright took wing at Kitty Hawk and flew–as none before had–unraveling a complex problem that had defied history’s most inventive minds, from Leonard da Vinci to Edison. How did these high-school dropouts from Dayton, Ohio do it? Experts at the controls of full-scale replicas explain how they worked–or didn’t–and historians recount the brothers’ heated arguments.