On December 17th 1903, a morning, not unlike today, sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight become a reality in Kill Devil Hills, Dare County, North Carolina, when Orville and Wilbur Wright launched the Wright Flyer into the skies and into history. The Wright Brothers’ Wright Flyer, 21 feet 1 inch long, constructed of giant spruce…
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Happy Birthday Manned Flight!
Today is an important day … without what happened on this date 107 years ago we would not be able to travel from New York to Tokyo in half a day, we would have never been able to fly from New York to London in three-and-a-half hours, we would have never put a man on…
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