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The first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903, four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina by the Wright Brothers.
The first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903, four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina by the Wright Brothers. From The Pageant of the Century, published 1934.
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