From the exhilarating and perilous days of early flight, to the present, where travel on commercial flights all over the world is as common as travel by motor car, this program looks at the beginnings of flight, with innovators such as Benjamin Franklin and Leonardo DaVinci coming up with new ways to give man wings, and chronicles the invention of hot air balloons, Zepplins, box kites, and of course the story of the most influential inventors of all - Wilbur and Orville Wright, two brothers from Midwestern America who were to have the biggest impact on the world of aviation.