Record #:

9268

Author(s):

Blaine, J.C.D.

Abstract:

December 17 of this year celebrates the seventy-fifth anniversary of Wilbur and Orville's first flight at Kitty Hawk. Although their early flights garnered little attention, in 1905, the pair dismantled their plane pending a patent applied for in 1903. In 1908, the brothers returned to Kitty Hawk to continue flying. Wilbur traveled to France to showcase the flying machine while Wilbur remained in North Carolina and secured $30,000 from the United States Government for successful air flight. Over the next seventy-five years, dramatic changes would improve air travel.\r\n

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 46 Issue 7, Dec 1978, p8-12, 38, il, por

Subject(s):

Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912