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On Dec. 17, 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright, realized one of mankind's earliest dreams: flight. The culmination of years of experimentation with kites and gliders finally paid off with the world's first controlled flight of a motor- ....

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.... in the United States, and observing how buzzards keep their balance while in the air, Wilbur realized that to fly successfully an airplane must operate on three axes. In 1900 they built their first glider that traveled 300 feet. In 1901, using aerodynamic tables compiled by Samuel Langley and Lilienthal, they constructed new wings for a larger glider; the flight was poor so they set out to test the tables. They made 200 model wings and tested them in a small wind tunnel. The tables were proven wrong and the Wrights painstakingly computed new ones. In 1902 their third biplane beat all other records for glider flight. For the construction of their ....