Many many years ago, in a far off land

 called the United States of America,

 there were two brothers with a dream. 

That dream was to fly. 

Ever since they were young, they would look up in the sky and imagine being able to soar with the birds as they glided effortlessly through the clouds seeing the world beneath them. The brothers wanted to be up there with them more than anything else and they knew one day they would do it.

Many years later the brothers had an idea to create a machine that would be able to take off from the restraints of the ground and go straight over water in between land at speeds never seen before. The problem was nothing like this had ever been constructed before so there was barely any information on how to make such a machine. 

So the brothers went to work constructing a plan. 

This is How we will do it!

For a while they were completely stuck, they had no clue about where to start. Then they realized that it would need something to keep it up off the ground by creating enough drag force to slow the effects of gravity pulling it back down towards earth. 

So the brothers made their first discovery: wings. The wings were perfect for stopping it falling straight down, but then came their next problem: the wings couldn’t keep the plane up if they weren’t up in the first place, so they had to get off the ground first. 

Now this was not so simple and it would require a lot of painful hours of studying. So that’s what they did. They researched for hours upon hours then tested something new and it would fail, this process would go on all day then days became weeks then weeks became months.

People laughed at the brothers with goals so outrageous they seemed impossible. “You’ll never get that piece of junk off the ground!” people exclaimed. 

You'll never do it!!!

You're Crazy!!!

The brothers started to wonder if the doubters  were right, maybe it was impossible, maybe they were crazy and had no chance of reaching their dream...

But then they thought back to when they were little kids and all they ever wanted was to fly, this was enough motivation for them to keep going.

It seemed like just another ordinary day of testing, but this time it was different. They put everything into making the plane gain extreme speed whilst on the ground, enough speed to get them up. This works when the wings are able to push enough air down in order to push the plane up, think of it like when you are swimming and you push the water behind you to make you go forwards.

And finally they were up off the ground. 

Until it came falling down just moments later.

Although it wasn’t for long, the brothers had finally fixed the big issue of getting off the ground. However they had now reached their final obstacle, keeping it up.The struggle with keeping it up was that they couldn’t really keep control of the aircraft, this meant that it was unbalanced and came crashing down every time.  Once again they were stuck but now they knew that they could overcome anything using their creativity.