Piece for the History of the World show about the Wright brothers as kids, and finally got to use the Guillow's Jetstream Glider I've had tacked to my wall for three years. These things are the best! I used to get these instead of candy at our local drug store on our way back from church, and play with my big brother. Thought it made a nice parallel with Orville and Wilbur who were inspired by a toy helicopter as kids. As well as amazing - the glider pioneered somewhere around 500 BC, powered manned flight pioneered in 1903 - a rather large time period of improvement, and yet 50 years after Kittyhawk we were testing the edge of space and traveling at supersonic speeds.
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