In the first chapter "Powered flight" the audience is shown the first man to fly was not the Wright brothers but a German who first proved that manned flight was possible with a kind of glider. Orville and Wilbur Wright built on these early ideas and designed their own glider. The burgeoning genius of these two men was astounding and they learned very quickly from an early age how to use their minds to engineer flying machines that would, in future, push the human race forward. After proving this design was almost infallible they took the very big step forwards, and using the brothers experience with bicycles, they built mans first aeroplane engine. After many attempts at flying and many adjustments to the design the Wright brothers were successful at pioneering the first powered flying machine.