Epilogue

Abstract

It has been well over a century since Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their craft, named Flyer I, along the dunes and beaches around Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Although other people were also working on powered flight technologies at that time, history has anointed the Wrights with the honor of being “first in flight.” Though they made many attempts, it was on December 17, 1903, that the brothers successfully flew their spruce craft in a controlled and sustained fashion. The first of these flights, at 10:35 a.m., went just 120 feet, about the length of the Boeing 737 that Leigh encounters at both the start and the end of this story. In recognition of the Wrights’ success in freeing humanity from its terrestrial bonds and moving us all into a new and exciting future, Leigh drives away from Renway Air at 10:35 a.m.