This novel, Inside the Wright Brothers: Flight is Possible,
presents the Wright Brothers as idealists who build a dream out of
the nuts and bolts of their everyday reality. There is a hard core
of steel in the Wrights that, however compassionate, polite,
accommodating and modest they appear to be to other people, is the
straight arrow that allows them to see their life's work clearly,
to make every decision and action move towards the achievement of
their goal, and to seldom make false judgments or false gestures
that would cause them to deviate from their true course. The
assurance that guides the brothers is that quality in creative
people that allows them to work towards their life's goal no matter
who or what encourages or discourages them, advances them or
retards them, promotes them or disparages them. Familiarity with
the Wright Brothers story has made the invention of the world's
first airplane seem to have a fairy-tale ambiance which is divorced
from the sweat and anxiety of everyday life. This assumption of an
effortless invention process is actually a hold-over from the
initial response to their accomplishment by the people of the
Wright Brothers' own time. While suitably impressed with the
achievement of the Wright Brothers, the people of the early 20th
Century remained unaware of the complex process that the Wright
Brothers had actually gone through in order to produce such amazing
results. The lack of appreciation of the complexity of the
invention process is a result of the pronouncements of "aviation
experts" of the time who failed to appreciate the magnitude of the
Wright accomplishment for two reasons: an inability to imagine the
number and complexity of the challengesthat the Wrights had found
solutions to, and a desire to limit the Wright's legal hold over
their inventions in light of what promised to be a great financial
future for the new innovation. In effect, while the public of the
early 20th Century marveled at the invention of the airplane, and
gave full credit to the Wright Brothers, many "aviation
experts"assumed that the Wright Brothers' contribution to the
invention process had involved nothing more complicated than a
little tinkering with the ideas of those who were better qualified
- by education and by academic eminence - to invent the airplane.
True appreciation of the wonder of the Wright Brothers'
contribution to the invention of controlled, human-piloted, powered
flight has been reserved for the detailed historical and
aeronautical researches and studies of our own time. It is here, a
century after the Wright Brothers' accomplishment, that the
mythical story - of small-town bicycle mechanics astonishing the
world with a feat as impressive as the boy Arthur pulling the sword
from the stone - and the modern story of painstaking scientific
research and development - of problem, theory, experiment and
solution - come together. The novel explores the tenacity which
allows the Wright Brothers to cling with an eagle's talons to the
single idea that human flight is possible.
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