David McCullogh’s The Wright Brothers: How Long Does It Take For People to Look Up and Believe Their Own Eyes? In That Case, Nearly Five Years.

Their first flight was on December 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, which was followed by more than 150 flights in 1904 and 1905.

“Shockingly, their achievement drew almost no notice until 1906, when Scientific American acknowledged the brothers by challenging their honesty—if they had really flown, the magazine suggested, reporters would have let the world know by now…

“It was not until the spring of 1908 that the Wrights were able to capture the attention of their own country…” (Daniel Okrent, “The Aviators,” The New York Times Book Review, May 10, 2015).