ACCREDITED SITE – WOS0004

WHAT:
Powered Manned Flight
WHERE:

Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA

LOCATION:
WHEN:

First Tested 17th December 1903

WHO:

Orville Wright & Wilbur Wright

DETAILS:

The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were American aviation pioneers generally credited 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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