What the word always stands for would be the definition.
I think it means if you hurt my friends, I will kill you.
Answer: by explaining how it took many people to coordinate the first successful flight
Explanation:
As much as history mostly remembers only the Wright brothers for this first flight, this passage shows that teamwork was necessary for the impossibility of flight to become possible as it showed how it took different people to coordinate that first flight.
From the men who worked at the Life-Saving station to the men who placed tracks on the ground to the men who kept time. They worked as a team and were all needed for the first successful flight.
