The 12-Second First Powered Flight at Kitty Hawk on 17 December 1903 That Initiated the Aviation Century
The Wright brothers flew the world's first powered, heavier-than-air, sustained, controllable aircraft on the morning of 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The first flight covered 36 metres in 12 seconds. The fourth flight that day covered 260 metres in 59 seconds. Within 66 years the same trajectory of aviation development had landed humans on the Moon.
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