Editing To Fly! (section)

== Summary ==
''To Fly!'' begins in [[Vermont]]<ref name=":18" /> on July 4, 1831. After reciting a zestful [[quatrain]] declaring himself a pioneer, a fictional hot air balloonist named Ezekiel ascends on a voyage around [[New England]].<ref name=":47" /> Spectators below look at the balloon in awe and surprise. Ezekiel sees a canoeist heading to whitewater at [[Horseshoe Falls]] and warns him to shore to avoid the rapid.

The film then chronicles the [[history of aviation]], beginning with hot air balloons. Its advent is described by the narrator as "like the opening of a new eye", allowing humans to reach untouched places and extend their limits, furthering their perspectives about the world. Despite this, the majority of Americans still used [[Horse-drawn vehicle|horses]]; for speedier travel, trains were invented, then cars and powered aircraft. The [[Roaring Twenties]] saw the rise of [[barnstorming]], expanding access to aviation among Americans. As part of [[Jet Age|diversifying aviation]], military jets were created, thereupon forming [[aerobatic]] teams like the [[Blue Angels]]. The use of [[jetliners]] made travel faster, and the American territory [[Territorial evolution of the United States|expanded]] beyond the [[mainland United States|mainland]]. Then, [[ultralight aviation]] was invented.

After describing the human imagination as limitless due to a philosophical awakening from the aerial view of the world, ''To Fly!'' lastly depicts the [[Saturn IB]] rocket launch for the [[Apollo–Soyuz]] mission<ref name=":8">{{Cite magazine|last1=MacGillivray|first1=Greg|author-link=Greg MacGillivray|last2=Freeman|first2=Jim|date=July 4, 1976|title=Producing the IMAX Motion Picture: 'To Fly'|magazine=[[American Cinematographer]]|location=[[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]]|volume=57|issue=7|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/196332360|id={{ProQuest|196332360}} |via=[[ProQuest]]|url-access=subscription}}</ref> at the [[Kennedy Space Center]] on July 15, 1975.<ref>{{Cite web|date=March 19, 2010|title=The Apollo-Soyuz Mission|url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo-soyuz/astp_mission.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210823001915/https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo-soyuz/astp_mission.html|archive-date=August 23, 2021|access-date=August 23, 2021|publisher=[[NASA]]|quote=The Saturn IB rocket lifts off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 15, 1975...}}</ref> Dubbing spaceflight a globally historical feat, the film suggests it can be used in finding [[extraterrestrial intelligence]]. The film ends with the narration:<ref name="MFF" />

{{blockquote|We have come a long way from the time when people gazed enviously upon the birds in-flight. Today, we look upon our planet from afar, and feel a new tenderness for the tiny and fragile Earth. For we know now, that even as we walk upon the ground, we are [[Earth's orbit|ever in-flight through the universe]]. And so, we begin to realize that human destiny has ever been, and always must be, to fly!}}