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Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft. Orville piloted the gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane, which stayed aloft for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet on its inaugural flight.@ram
Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft. Orville piloted the gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane, which stayed aloft for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet on its inaugural flight.@ram
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Minds of inventors, entrepreneurs and scientists blow my brain with their ingenuity!
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Thanks for the history. Had a distant cousin that flew with Wilbur Wright in Italy in 1907. Wilbur was demonstrating the plane to the Italian King. My cousin was the US ambassador to Italy.
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