The Wrights: Wowing the World

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After their first flight at Kitty Hawk in December 1903, the Wright brothers spent five years in relative seclusion, testing, tweaking, and trying to patent their Flyer. While the brothers’ secrecy foiled copycats, it also led to doubts of their success. Skeptics were silenced when Wilbur Wright piloted the Flyer in a series of spectacular public demonstrations near Le Mans, France, in 1908.

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