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First flight2

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First flight2 — archival photograph
First successful flight of the Wright Flyer , by the Wright brothers . The machine traveled 120 ft (36.6 m) in 12 seconds at 10:35 a.m. at Kill Devil Hills , North Carolina . Orville Wright was at the controls of the machine, lying prone on the lower wing with his hips in the cradle which operated the wing-warping mechanism. Wilbur Wright ran alongside to balance the machine, and just released his

The year

1903
Photographer
John T. Daniels
Date
1903
Licence
Public domain
Source
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_flight2.jpg
Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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