t certificate that can be "earned in as few as 20 hours". We say: OK, it can fit into a garage, but what if there's no runway next to the garage? Kitty Hawk: The Flyer Kitty Hawk, backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, has created this open- seated, propeller-driven machine for recreational use. The ret

2007. Van Creveld traces aerial fighting machines back to 18th-century ballooning and to the Wright brothers, who, after lofting their "flier" at Kitty Hawk in 1903, shrewdly decided that the big money would be found not in passenger aircraft but warplanes. And indeed near the start of World War I, a Fr