Take to the sky with the dreamers whose work gave humans the ability to fly. From Leonardo da Vinci’s “flying machines” to the modern commercial plane, without these inventions, we may have never left the ground.

Originally released by PBS, 2019. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on June 18, 2019.

Early Fluid Dynamics (5:39); --Duplicating Nature (4:22); -- First Working Glider (5:29); -- Commercial Aviation Aspirations (5:34); -- Wilbur and Orville Wright (7:46); -- Artificial Horizon (5:47); -- Altitude Pioneer (9:22); -- Gas Turbine (5:21); -- Future of Aviation (2:42); -- Credits: The Airplane (0:29); .