The Winds of Kitty Hawk (1978)

Directors

E.W. Swackhamer

Cast

David Huffman, Michael Moriarty

The story

The film presents the brothers' lives in dramatic vignettes sometimes historically rearranged. At the start of the 20th century, bicycle mechanics Wilbur and Orville Wright, begin tinkering with gliders on the windy sand dunes of Kitty Hawk. Three years and dozens of crashes later, the Wright brothers solve the technical problems that had stumped the best engineers in the world, and succeed in making the first successful powered flight.

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