STEPHEN FRAZIER, CNN ANCHOR: We are just a few years away from celebrating another historic invention: the engine-powered airplane.</s>NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: CNN's Keith Oppenheim has the story of two entrepreneurs who are trying to recreate the invention by the Wright brothers, and their historic flight.</s>MARK MILLER: They changed our lives. They changed the world.</s>KEITH OPPENHEIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): They are Wilbur and Orville Wright, two brothers who, in December of 1903, were the first to fly a plane powered by an engine and controlled by a pilot. This is Mark Miller and his partner, Tom Norton -- two guys attempting to be the first to successfully build and fly a plane just like the one the Wright brothers made. That original plane, mind you, hangs at the Air and Space Museum in Washington, but it's been changed so much it's no longer flyable. Two years ago, Norton and his son asked Miller to help with a high school project: to build a replica of a Wright brother's glider. After that, Miller got the bug and wanted to recreate the first plane.</s>MILLER: I couldn't get it out of my mind. It just seemed like a really interesting, phenomenal project.</s>OPPENHEIM (on camera): Eventually Norton and Miller got the attention of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, which is now supporting the project. The plan is, on the 100th anniversary of the historic flight, December 17, 2003, the Norton and Miller replica will be flown right in front of this building, and will later be displayed inside the museum. (voice-over): Until that day, the builders have mysteries to solve, and questions to answer.</s>TOM NORTON: What was it in that wing? What was it in that engine? What was it in that fabric and the way they put it together, that got the kind of performance that they got that day? No one has ever really figured that out. Will we? I'm not sure, but we're having a lot of fun trying.</s>OPPENHEIM: Keith Oppenheim, CNN, Chicago.
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