With a 12-horsepower engine driving two pusher propellers, the #WrightBrothers in 1903 on #ThisDayInHistory may have made the first powered flight. At #KittyHawk, NC, their #WrightFlier biplane got airborne briefly, but was highly unstable and was wrecked on their fourth attempt.

El día que el ser humano conquistó el aire

Un día como hoy, 17 de diciembre, pero de 1903, en una playa ventosa de Estados Unidos, un vuelo de apenas 12 segundos cambió para siempre la historia de la humanidad y abrió una nueva era tecnológica, política y militar. Por Alcides Blanco para NLI Un experimento que parecía imposible Durante siglos, volar había sido un anhelo humano más cercano al mito que a la ciencia. Desde los bocetos de Leonardo da Vinci hasta los planeadores del siglo XIX, la idea de elevarse del suelo […]

https://noticiaslainsuperable.com.ar/2025/12/17/el-dia-que-el-ser-humano-conquisto-el-aire/

Dan Tate (left) and #WilburWright (right) flying the 1902 Glider as a tethered kite, #KittyHawk, North Carolina.

If you're out trying to fly your bicycle with wings off a sand dune, tonight's not the night!!

Flash Flood Warning issued June 15 at 11:18PM EDT until June 16 at 2:30AM EDT by NWS Newport/Morehead City NC


FFWMHX

The National Weather Service in Newport/Morehead City has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
North Central Dare County in eastern North Carolina...

* Until 230 AM EDT.

* At 1118 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain
have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are
possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected
to begin shortly.

HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.

SOURCE...Radar.

IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.

* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Kill Devil Hills, Southern Shores, Colington, Sanderling, Avalon
Pier, Wright Brothers National Monument, Nags Head Fishing Pier,
Jockeys Ridge State Park and Duck Coe Pier.

#NCwx #KittyHawk #FlashFloodWarning

https://alerts-v2.weather.gov/search?id=urn%3Aoid%3A2.49.0.1.840.0.0b12c7c94624b2879876d871cfd638d2d213dafc.001.1

Flight: #KRF18
ICAO code: #407D8F
Callsign: #KITTYHAWK
Operator: Uk Royal/vip Flights Mil
Country: 🇬🇧
Speed: 579 kmh
Altitude: 2187 m
Distance: 2.7 km
Angle ∆: 38.6°
Direction ->: ENE
Track:
https://tinyurl.com/24j9pf7w
History:
https://www.radarbox.com/data/mode-s/407D8F
Seen: 5x
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Flight: #KRF12
ICAO code: #43C5EE
Callsign: #KITTYHAWK
Operator: Uk Royal/vip Flights Mil
Country: 🇬🇧
Speed: 733 kmh
Altitude: 9746 m
Distance: 2.3 km
Angle ∆: 77.0°
Direction ->: WNW
Track:
https://tinyurl.com/24qjkdes
History:
https://www.radarbox.com/data/mode-s/43C5EE
Seen: 3x
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Mistodon: on this date 121 years ago, Orville Wright became the first person to ever make a sustained airplane flight (for 12 seconds at least) near #KittyHawk, North Carolina. AdeptApril has drawn this #ANSIart illustration of the #WrightFlyer in honour of the occasion.
The #WrightFlyer (also known as the #KittyHawk,[3][4] Flyer I or the 1903 Flyer) made the first sustained flight by a manned heavier-than-air powered and controlled aircraft—an airplane—on December 17, 1903.[1] Invented an
Flight: #KRF83
ICAO code: #407D8F
Callsign: #KITTYHAWK
Operator: Uk Royal/vip Flights Mil
Country: 🇬🇧
Speed: 514 kmh
Altitude: 3048 m
Distance: 7.9 km
Angle ∆: 21.1°
Direction ->: SSW
Track:
http://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=407D8F&lat=50.983&lon=4.447&zoom=10.5&showTrace=2024-09-18
http://globe.adsb.fi/?icao=407D8F&lat=50.983&lon=4.447&zoom=10.5&showTrace=2024-09-18
History:
https://www.radarbox.com/data/mode-s/407D8F
Seen: 4x
https://bit.ly/3yX9TbL
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Flight: #KRF57
ICAO code: #407D8F
Callsign: #KITTYHAWK
Operator: Uk Royal/vip Flights Mil
Country: 🇬🇧
Speed: 543 kmh
Altitude: 2050 m
Distance: 0.3 km
Angle ∆: 81.1°
Direction ->: ENE
Track:
http://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=407D8F&lat=50.983&lon=4.447&zoom=10.5&showTrace=2024-06-13
http://globe.adsb.fi/?icao=407D8F&lat=50.983&lon=4.447&zoom=10.5&showTrace=2024-06-13
History:
https://www.radarbox.com/data/mode-s/407D8F
Seen: 2x
https://bit.ly/3yX9TbL
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