Miracle at Kitty Hawk: The Letters of Wilbur and Orville WrightOn December 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur (1867 1912) and Orville (1871 1948) Wright made the first controlled, sustained flights in a power driven airplane. Relying on the facilities of a bicycle repair shop in Dayton, Ohio, they had constructed, alone, the world's first flying machines. Miracle at Kitty Hawk, an expert selection of 600 out of 10,000 existing letters, allows the reader to follow the excitement of discovery that