Posted on Aug 8, 2015
Aviation History - August 8, 1908 - Wilbur Wright makes his first flight in Europe
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CW3 (Join to see), and one month and a few days later (17 September 1908), Orville crashed an airplane at Fort Myer with Army Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge aboard. Unfortunately, Selfridge was killed, thus becoming the first fatality in a powered airplane.
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SPC(P) Mark Newman
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Is that the crash where one of the brothers was severely injured? There were one or two very serious accidents (though the Wrights were comparatively lucky as aviation pioneers; parachutes, balloons, unpowered aircraft all visited tragedies on the first aviators.).
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LTC Stephen C.
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Indeed, SPC(P) Mark Newman, the accounts say that Orville was severely injured, to include a broken hip.
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