It’s been over 120 years since the first powered flight piloted by humans left the ground. Wilbur and Orville Wright took to the skies on December 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Their plane flew for thirty-seven meters and stayed airborne for 12 seconds. Those numbers may appear minuscule compared to today’s seemingly effortless hours-long flights, but in 1903, that first flight set the path for progress. The Wright brothers were far from the first to experiment with
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