Centenary Of Powered Flight

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Originally posted by j2k4+17 December 2003 - 00:28--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (j2k4 @ 17 December 2003 - 00:28)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-uNz&#091;i
,16 December 2003 - 23:04]

THE WRIGHTS TAKE FLIGHT, Dec. 17, 1903

Since the late 1800s, the prospect of powered flight infatuated the country&#39;s top scientists and engineers. And then a couple of bike shop owners beat them to the punch. Three days after Wilbur Wright failed to get the Flyer off the ground, brother Orville took controls and flew for 12 seconds at a makeshift hangar at Kill Devil Hills in Kitty Hawk, N.C. The brothers made three more flights that day — the longest by Wilbur was 59 seconds for a distance of 852 feet — before a gust of wind rolled the Flyer over as they were taking it back to camp. The plane was a wreck, but history was already made.

TIME.com Feature

Since then we&#39;ve had many aviation milestones, from long distance flights all the way up to the International Space Station and Martian exploration.

I thought a good news story would make a nice change...

Another good one, uNz.

Sad how the two greatest bicycle mechanics who ever lived, whose status as the originators of flight will be remembered in such low-key ways, just because they are "Old Dead White Guys".

Soon they will disappear from the history books, and by the time the 200th anniversary rolls around, you won&#39;t even be able to discover who was first.

Sorry to be negative-I know this wasn&#39;t what you were looking for. [/b][/quote]
We will alway&#39;s know who the Wright brother&#39;s were. It will remain a part of history, our grandchildren and great grandchildren will know, and so on......