Today, in 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made their first successful flight of a powered heavier-than-air vehicle. After years of tests, broken gliders, and a few bruises, the brothers brought the Wright Flyer I to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. They flipped a coin and Orville won the toss, becoming the world’s first pilot. His first attempt lasted 12 seconds. The next two were longer, and the last flight lasted 59 seconds.
The Wright brothers became so famous that, today, two states claim them as “sons”: Ohio (where they were born and lived) and North Carolina (where their famous flights took place). Interestingly, as a promise to their father, the brothers never flew together, in case of an accident. This promise was broken only once—with their father’s permission—when Wilbur was Orville’s passenger on a flight in 1910. That same day, Orville took his 82-year-old father on his first and only flight. Milton Wright’s words while he in rode the aircraft his sons invented? “Higher, Orville, higher!”
Read more about the men who changed flight forever at their company’s official site.
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Amy Adams flew that plane in Night at the Museum 2.