Men with Wings (1938)

Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when on 17 Dec 1903 in Kitty Hawk North Carolina Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight Back home in Underwood Maryland however his uncle Hiram F Jenkins owner and editor of the local newspaper refuses to print the story Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes induce her to get inside a large kite they have made and run with it in a field until she is airborne The kite is caught in a tree however and Peggy gets a black eye Later Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes leaving his wife and children alone By Peggys adulthood planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11000 feet and speeds of nearly 100 mph Peggy continues her fathers obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane