Apr 12, 2023
The Wright brothers, Orville
Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948)
and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May
30, 1912),[a] were
American aviation pioneers
generally credited[3][4][5] with
inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful
motor-operated airplane. They made
the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air
aircraft with the Wright
Flyer on December 17, 1903, 4 mi (6 km)
south of Kitty
Hawk, North Carolina, at what is now known as Kill
Devil Hills. The brothers were also the first to
invent aircraft
controls that made fixed-wing powered
flight possible.
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