Elikanah is 11-years-old and lives in Kenya. He loves elephants and gets very angry with the poachers who illegally hunt elephants for their ivory tusks. He wonders: why elephants can't just fly away from danger? Elephants are heavy, but most airplanes are heavier. Elikanah starts to investigate the concept of flying. He looks into the factors needed to make something fly. He builds his own propeller plane and goes aboard a real one. He finds out that a lot of things can fly - like paper cups for example. Unfortunately, he also finds out why elephants can't fly. But he comes up with a solution that uses flight to protect the elephants.

Originally released by Nederlandse Publieke Omroep, 2015. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on August 11, 2016.