Tuesday, February 25, 2014

1903 Wright Flyer Replica at the Evergreen Aviation Museum

1903 Wright Flyer Replica at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in 2001

Orville and Wilbur Wright were bicycle mechanics in Ohio but they were fascinated with a different form of transportation: flight. For years they studied flight, testing gliders and building their own wind tunnel. Finally, on December 17, 1903, they flew the first heavier-than-air craft 120 feet in 12 seconds at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. This replica of that airplane was built by Century Aviation in Wenatchee, Washington from plans prepared by the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum from the original plane.

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