The Wright Brothers
Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 11:43 AM
104 years ago this week, Wilbur and Orville Wright managed to coax their spruce biplane off the North Carolina sand for twelve seconds, and those twelve seconds started a revolution in flight. We examine the human desire to fly, and how getting flight changed us.
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Comments [2]
Lovely use of the Solaris OST.
1901 - Gustave Whitehead The True pioneer of Flight
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Whitehead
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