🛩️💥 Thomas Selfridge: proving that being the first isn't always worth it, especially when it involves a fiery crash with a Wright Flyer. 🚀🤦‍♂️ The U.S. Army's demo turned into a not-so-flying success story - because who wouldn't want to be remembered for spectacularly failing in the sky? 🎩🎉
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2026/03/thomas-selfridge-first-airplane-fatality.html #ThomasSelfridge #WrightFlyer #AviationHistory #MilitaryFails #FirstInFlight #SpectacularCrash #HackerNews #ngated

All sorts of interesting flags and artifacts will fly to the Moon on Artemis II https://arstechni.ca/p556 #NationalAirandSpaceMuseum #CanadianSpaceAgency #europeanspaceagency #OfficialFlightKit #spacecollectibles #spacelaunchsystem #Artemismoontrees #Spaceexploration #spacememorabilia #artemisprogram #spacehistory #Smithsonian #WrightFlyer #LegacyFlag #artemisII #Integrity #Apollo18 #manifest #Space #orion #NASA #ESA #OFK #sls

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/

The #WrightFlyer took off under its own power, maintained flight for almost a full minute, and flew under the control of a pilot-three combined accomplishments never before achieved by any other flying machine.

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

We have some server art! I'm so excited to show off this amazing piece that was made for thegem.city! #Mastodon #MastodonArt #WrightFlyer

That little swatch of #Wrightflyer fabric attached to #Marshelicopter #Ingenuity seems to be doing its job as a good luck charm. #Perseverance #aviationhistory #Wrightbrothers #Dayton #Ohiohistory https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/423/flight-36-preview-by-the-numbers/