Glenn Curtiss built motorcycles and engines before he ever built an airplane, and this History Hit documentary argues he deserves as much credit for powered flight as Orville and Wilbur Wright. It traces how Curtiss's early biplane designs, including ailerons instead of the Wrights' wing-warping system, put him directly in the Wrights' path just as aviation was becoming a business. What follows is a patent war fought through the courts for years, with the Wrights suing Curtiss and rival flyers across the country in an attempt to control who could legally build an airplane at all. Archival photographs, period newspaper coverage, and aviation historians walk through the lawsuits, the public exhibition flights, and the commercial stakes, including how litigation nearly strangled American aviation just as Europe's industry pulled ahead. The film treats the rivalry as a genuine engineering and legal dispute rather than a simple hero-versus-villain story, and it makes the case that Curtiss's contributions were written out of the standard telling of how flight was won.