Wright brothers

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1. Orville and Wilbur Wright, American mechanics and inventors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who achieved the first sustained flight of a heavier-than-air machine — what we today call an airplane. Their flight was made at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.

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Wright brothers

On the desolate dunes of the Outer Banks, the Wright brothers conquered the sky in 1903, proving that controlled, powered flight was no longer a human fantasy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

There has been talk of a third runway in west London since not long after the Wright brothers were first airborne.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2025

The extravaganza was mounted barely six years after the Wright brothers took off at Kitty Hawk, N.C. in the first heavier-than-air manned flight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024

"To me, this is like a Wright brothers moment," de Heer said.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024

The Wright brothers had made their first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, less than eleven years earlier, and by 1914 airplanes were still simple and few.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman