Surveys the life of the country boy from West Virginia who became a great pilot, ending his career as an Air Force brigadier general with more than 10,000 hours of flying time in some 180 different aircraft.
Discusses the achievements of a scientist at Wright State University who has learned to use electronic stimulation to help people paralyzed after spinal cord injuries recover enough to move and even walk again.
A rodent reporter from the "Mouse News" travels from Dayton, Ohio, to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, to cover Wilbur and Orville Wright's historic 1903 flight.