Wilbur and Orville Wright proved on December 17, 1903, that a man-carrying flying machine, which was heavier than air, was actually possible during a successful test flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. "The machine flew for three miles in the face of a wind blowing at the registered velocity of 21 miles an hour and then gracefully descended to earth at the spot selected by the man in the navigator's car as a suitable place for landing. The machine has no balloon attachment, but gets its force from propellers worked by a small engine," an article in The Racine Daily Journal reported on December 18, 1903.





The historic flight brought on "the age of the flying machine," and while the Wright brothers could have postponed the trials until the end of winter, they were determined "to know whether the machine possessed sufficient power to fly, sufficient strength to withstand the shock of landings and sufficient capacity of control to make flight safe in boisterous winds as......

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