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Web Site Credits

 

TV Program Credits

Lauren Aguirre, Executive Editor
Rebecca Deusser, Intern
Rick Groleau, Managing Editor
Brenden Kootsey, Senior Web Developer
Lexi Krock, Assistant Editor
Peter Tyson, Editor in Chief
Anya Vinokour, Senior Designer

Special Thanks
Paul Glenshaw, Wright Experience/Cognitive Applications
Peter Jakab, National Air and Space Museum

Photo and Image Credits 
Wright Brothers' Flying Machine homepage
Photo: (1911 Model B replica) © Paul Glenshaw/Courtesy of the Wright Experience

The Unlikely Inventors
Photo: (Crouch) © Carolyn Russo, National Air and Space Museum; (others) Courtesy of Rosebud's WWI and Early Aviation Image Archive, http://members.shaw.ca/flyingaces/archive1.htm

The First Reporter
Photos: (Root, Root in Wright airplane, page from Gleanings, illustration from Gleanings) Courtesy of Root Candles, www.rootcandles.com; (Wright images) Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution

Getting Airborne and Wing Designs
Illustrations: © WGBH/NOVA

Building Wright Replicas
Photos: © Paul Glenshaw/Courtesy of the Wright Experience

T.V. Program Description
Photo: Courtesy of Rosebud's WWI and Early Aviation Image Archive, http://members.shaw.ca/flyingaces/archive1.htm

 

Produced and Directed by
David Axelrod

Written by
David Axelrod
Michael Barnes
Kate Hudec

Director of Photography
Bob Elfstrom

Edited by
Eve Gage

Consulting Producer
Gino Del Guercio

Music
Mark Adler

Narrated by
Neil Ross

Additional Producing and Directing
Michael Barnes

Additional Photography
Erich Roland
Rich Confalone

Sound Recordists
Roger Phenix
Len Schmitz

Assistant Camera
Ray Day
John Chater
Jim Ball

Production Managers
Vincent Lopez
Karin Stellwagen

Production Coordinators
Andy Zare
Judith Cornejo Brealey

Assistant Editors
Lisa Cheby
Carey DeVore

Animation
Michael Tristram Design

Motion Control Photographer
Ken Rudolph

Online Editor
Ed Ham

Colorist
Mark Kueper

Post Production Sound
Stage Two Audio
Mark Linden
Tara Paul
Carlos Ramirez

Archival Research
Jane Martin
Loretta Britten

Production Assistants
Ariel Fox
Judah Chivian

Archival Material
Allen Airways Flying Museum
Corbis Motion
Corbis
Cradle of Aviation Museum
The Franklin Institute
Archive Films/Image Bank by Getty Images
Getty Images
Library of Congress
Marvin Christian
National Air and Space Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Quentin Wald
WPA
Wright State University

Special Thanks
Northrop Grumman Discovery of Flight Foundation
Curtiss-Wright Corporation
John Alviti
American Airlines
Jack Campbell
Tom Crouch
Dawne Dewey
Dean S. Edmonds Foundation
Fauquier County Sheriff's Office
Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village
Beverly Hyde
Marianne Hudec
Peter Jakab
Toni Jeske
Jockey's Ridge State Park
Kitty Hawk Kites
Tony Naccarato
National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
NCR Corporation
Steven Sobel
Grover Taylor
Frank Thompson
The Wright Experience
United States Naval Observatory
Wright Brothers National Memorial, National Park Service
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

 

Wright Brothers Flyer reproduction built and flown by Ken Hyde of Warrenton, Virginia

Wright Brothers Kite and Glider reproductions built and flown by Rick and Sue Young and Jacquelyn Young Grattan and R.D. David Young of Richmond, Virginia

NOVA Series Graphics
National Ministry of Design

NOVA Theme
Mason Daring
Martin Brody
Michael Whalen

Post Production Online Editors
Spencer Gentry
Mark Steele

Closed Captioning
The Caption Center

NOVA Administrator
Queene Coyne

Publicity
Jonathan Renes
Diane Buxton
Tom Stebbins

Senior Researcher
Ethan Herberman

Production Coordinator
Linda Callahan

Unit Manager
Lola Norman-Salako

Paralegal
Nancy Marshall
Gabriel Cohen-Leadholm

Legal Counsel
Susan Rosen Shishko

Post Production Assistant
Patrick Carey

Associate Producer, Post Production
Nathan Gunner

Post Production Supervisor
Regina O'Toole

Post Production Editor
Rebecca Nieto

Post Production Manager
Maureen Barden Lynch

Supervising Producer
Stephen Sweigart

Producer, Special Projects
Susanne Simpson

Coordinating Producer
Laurie Cahalane

Senior Science Editor
Evan Hadingham

Senior Series Producer
Melanie Wallace

Managing Director
Alan Ritsko

Senior Executive Producer
Paula S. Apsell

   

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