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The Wright brothers’ plane

The Wright brothers’ plane in flight 1904.

The Wright brothers are credited with the first real flight, which took place on 17 December 1903. Here, Orville is shown in a plane in 1904 where he covered a distance of approximately 1760 feet at Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio.

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