My Brothers' Flying Machine by Jane Yolen & Jim Burke

Author:Jane Yolen & Jim Burke [YOLEN, JANE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780316092579
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2009-11-29T05:00:00+00:00

Weeks, months went by in practice.

The boys sent me letters almost every day

so that I might follow their every move.

When they were home,

I was in their closest confidence.

At Kitty Hawk they flew the aircraft

with a man—and without one—

but always controlled the craft from the ground.

We had thought: Stand on the shoulders of giants,

and you are already high above the ground,

but success did not come as quickly as we hoped.

Finally Will made a big decision:

“We cast the calculations of others aside.”

Back in Dayton they would start anew.

This time when they left Kitty Hawk for home,

when they left the wind, the sand,

the mosquitoes that left lumps like hen’s eggs,

they came home with a new idea.

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