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Worldwide Coins & Bank Notes => Other World Coins => Topic started by: Templar on December 17, 2013, 12:17:48 AM

Title: FIRST MOTORIZED FLIGHT
Post by: Templar on December 17, 2013, 12:17:48 AM

TODAY IN 1903---WILBUR AND ORVILLE WRIGHT WERE ABLE TO ACHIEVE MOTORIZED FLIGHT AT KITTYHAWK NORTH CAROLINA-------THEIR FIRST ATTEMPT LASTED 12 SECONDS AND IT WAS ABOUT AS LONG AS THE WING SPAN OF SOME OF OUR PASSENGER AIR PLANES----WILBUR WAS NOT ABLE TO GAIN FLIGHT SO ORVILLE TRIED AND HAD MORE LUCK.....................

Title: Re: FIRST MOTORIZED FLIGHT
Post by: Triggersmob on December 17, 2013, 12:19:57 AM

We've come a long way in 110 years.

Title: Re: FIRST MOTORIZED FLIGHT
Post by: Kena on December 27, 2013, 02:29:43 AM

Image is also on the North Carolina State Quarter.

Ken