I'm going to show you how great I am.

This would have mighty power.

I just want to say from the bottom of me heart, I'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody.

Hello and welcome down to deck over the world. This is Ben Wilson. This is part two on the series

on The Wright brothers. On this episode, I'll be talking about the rest of the story, how they found

success in flight, the company that they founded, how they became celebrities, and much more,

the whole rest of the story. And then at the end of the episode I

have a bunch of my takeaways as well of course as always before we get started just a

reminder that if you want to listen to the end notes episode that I'll be releasing

shortly it will be for subscribers only it contains more information about their

family including their sister Catherine I'll talk more about how they became

accidental fashion icons in Europe. I'll run through

some of the speeches that Wilbur gave and of course even more insights and takeaways. So if you

want to listen to the end notes episode and support the show, just click on the link in the show notes.

With that said, let's get into it and hear about the rest of the story of the Wright brothers

after this quick break.

Music after this quick break. 1901 is the year of disaster for the Wright brothers.

It's the year that Wilbur declares that man will not fly for a thousand years.

They thought progress would be rapid year over year as they came every summer to

Kitty Hawk to learn to fly.

And instead, in their second year, they go backwards because they had Hawk to learn to fly, and instead, in their second

year, they go backwards because they had tried to rely on the calculations of others, and those

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