On this day, 17 December 1903, Orville Wright took the controls, lying prone on the lower wing with hips in the cradle which operated the wing-warping mechanism. This is the moment that his brother Wilbur has just released his hold on the forward upright of the right wing. It’s the start of the famous first powered, controled, sustained flight: 120 feet in 12 seconds. It was 10:35 a.m. at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina; the world would never be the same.
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