The Winds of Kitty Hawk

The Winds of Kitty Hawk is a 1978 American

The film presents the brothers' lives in dramatic vignettes sometimes historically rearranged.

At the start of the 20th century, bicycle mechanics Wilbur and Orville Wright, begin tinkering with gliders on the windy sand dunes of Kitty Hawk. Three years and dozens of crashes later, the Wright brothers solve the technical problems that had stumped the best engineers in the world, and succeed in making the first successful powered flight. Ironically, their success marks only the beginning and not the end of their struggle.^[2]

The film makes a claimer at the beginning stating that dramatic license had been taken but for the most part their story is told chronologically.

Home Media

In 2012, the film became available on DVD from MGM Limited Edition.^[3]

Cast

• Wilbur Wright
• Orville Wright
• Tom Bower as William Tate
• Robin Gammell as H.A. Toulmin
• Scott Hylands as Glenn Curtiss
• John Randolph as Alexander Graham Bell
• Katharine Wright
• Eugene Roche as Bishop Milton Wright
• John Hoyt - Professor Samuel Langley
• Joseph Bernard - Mayor of New York, George B. McClellan Jr.
• Lew Brown - Harlan Mumford (banker)
• Carole Tru Foster - Agnes Osborne
• Dabbs Greer - Ace Hutchin
• Mo Malone - Elizabeth Mayfield
• Robert Casper - Man
• Tom Lawrence - Doctor
• Ross Durfee - William Howard Taft
• Charles Macaulay - 2nd Genteral
• Frank Farmer - Mr. Newell
• Steffen Zacharias - Fisherman
• Laurence Haddon - 1st General
• Ari Zeltzer - Tom Tate
• Vaughn Armstrong - Reporter
• Marie Todd -
• Gerald Berns - Reporter

See also

• Wright Flyer
• The Wright Brothers (1971 film)

References

External links

• The Winds of Kitty Hawk at IMDb.com
• allmovie/synopsis; The Winds of Kitty Hawk
• Winds of Kitty Hawk; Aveleyman
• Sample of Charles Bernstein's score to the film(Period Orchestral - 1904 flight) and others