The aviation bug bit Jim Tecu in 1979 when he started taking flying lessons. He later became the publisher of the Midwest Aviation Journal from 1994 to 2004. He has been teaching private pilot ground school classes since 2003 at the community college level and at various flight schools. Over the years he added ratings and eventually became a flight instructor in 2004. He has given over 1,300 hours of flight instruction and helped his students realize their dream of learning to fly.

When asked why he wrote Voices of the Wright Brothers, he said, "I have read a number of books about the Wright brothers, all of which were non-fiction, historical accountings. Although I enjoyed learning the details of their work, there was something missing. I wanted to hear these two men talk. What did they say to each other in their bicycle shop in Dayton, or their dining room at 7 Hawthorn Street, or their shed at Kitty Hawk?"

That became his goal — to make the brothers come alive and become real people. The book is technically historical fiction because he has retained the facts and the dates of the work done by the brothers, but he has given a voice to both Orville and Wilbur Wright.