TODAY IN SCIENCE: Wright Brothers Day
On this day in 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright recorded their first successful flight at Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk, N.C. Theirs was not the first airplane, but was the first one that successfully combined a heavier-than-air, powered vehicle with a pilot aboard and with the ability to control the plane’s path.


When Is the Anniversary of the First Flight? The Answer’s Not So Easy
The Wright Brothers’ First Flight: A Fly on the Wall History
A Day That Shook The World: Wright Brothers’ first flight
How the Wright Brothers took the first powered flight – and how it changed the world
Proclamation on Wright Brothers Day, 2020
The Long, Complicated History of the Very First Flight
Wright Brothers Day: December 17, 2020
Wright Brothers National Memorial, North Carolina:
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