Wright brothers

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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

The Wright brothers made history when they flew a gasoline-powered plane into the air for 12 seconds one morning in 1903.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 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

Magie patented her invention in 1904 — the same day that the Wright brothers filed one for their airplane — and it was published in 1906 through the Economic Game Company, a business she co-owned.

From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

When the Wright brothers made their famous first powered flight on December 17, 1903, aviation fever seized the world.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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