Air Planes During Ww1
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On December 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright made the world's first successful flights in a heavier-than-air
craft under power and control. The airplane had been designed, constructed, and
flown by them, each brother making two flights that day. The ....
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.... by Alberto Santos-Dumont, of Brazil. His longest flight, on
November 12, 1906, covered a distance of about 220 m (722 ft) in 22.5 sec. The
airplane, the 14- bis, was of his own design, made by the Voisin firm in Paris,
and powered with a Levavasseur 40-hp Antoinette engine. The airplane
resembled a large box kite, with a smaller box at the front end of a long,
cloth-covered frame. The engine and propeller were at the rear, and the pilot
stood in a basket just forward of the main rear wing ....
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