If Mosquito Hawks Can Fly
Family Lore
Audacy
4.6 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
A Louisiana man born into slavery designs an airship with hopes to take flight. Those plans are interrupted, but maybe not forever.
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| 0:32.1 | Music You might remember back in 1999, the United States MIMP started producing specialty quarters. |
| 0:52.3 | On the back of each quarter, instead of an eagle |
| 0:55.5 | spreading its wings and looking off to the side, you'd see a unique design representing any given state. |
| 1:01.5 | For example, on the back of the Massachusetts quarter, you'd have a minute man. The Virginia |
| 1:06.0 | quarter featured ships arriving at Jamestown in 1607. And on the back of the North Carolina quarter, |
| 1:12.2 | you had a man lying prostrate on a primitive airplane with another man watching from below. |
| 1:17.7 | This, of course, was a depiction of the Wright brothers and their inaugural flight at the |
| 1:21.5 | small beach town of Kitty Hawk. At the top of the coin is the inscription First Flight. |
| 1:31.3 | This is a story that virtually all Americans know. The Wright brothers were the first to fly. |
| 1:33.3 | The Wright brothers invented the airplane. |
| 1:35.3 | Or at the very least, the Wright brothers were pioneers in the field of aviation. |
| 1:40.3 | But there's another story you probably haven't heard that makes the origins of American aviation a little more complex. |
| 1:48.2 | I'm Lloyd Lockridge, and this is Family Lore. |
| 1:56.4 | This story begins in Louisiana, a state not known for aviation. Quite the opposite, really. |
| 2:07.2 | With its bayous, swamps, labyrinthine coastline, and the nation's biggest river, the state is known for its boats. |
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