Seven Miles per Hour: The men who invented flight
Robert Macfarlane, 5 February 2004
It’s hard, in our age of budget flights and short hops, to appreciate the glamour of early aviation. Yet for fifteen years or so – from the late 1890s until the opening months of the Great War – powered flight was one of modernity’s greatest romances.
Wilbur and Orville Wright, bicycle makers from Ohio, became famous as the Wright Brothers, but at first it was only...