The Wright Brothers
First flight duo
The Wright Brothers—Orville and Wilbur Wright—were American inventors who achieved the first sustained, controlled, powered flight in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Their name is synonymous with aviation's birth: The Wright Brothers changed everything.
References to them often invoke pioneering achievement or American ingenuity.
- Kitty HawkHistoric Carolina flight site
- North CarolinaSoutheastern Atlantic coast state
- windAir current outdoors
- engineerTechnical design professional
- powered flightAircraft movement via engines
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The Wright Brothersearthbound
Confined to terra firma
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