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Offline Templar

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FIRST MOTORIZED FLIGHT
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.....................

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TIME WAS INVENTED SO EVERYTHING WOULD NOT HAPPEN AT ONCE!
 


Offline Triggersmob

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Re: FIRST MOTORIZED FLIGHT
December 17, 2013, 12:19:57 AM
We've come a long way in 110 years.

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See my gallery here, now with over 15,000 images...
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Offline Kena

Re: FIRST MOTORIZED FLIGHT
December 27, 2013, 02:29:43 AM
Image is also on the North Carolina State Quarter.

Ken