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  2. Wright Brothers flights of 1909 - Wikipedia

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    Wilbur Wright circles the Statue of Liberty, September 29, 1909. The airplane is flying to the left. Airplane inventors Wilbur and Orville Wright are famed for making the first controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flights on 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Lesser-known are other flights of theirs which played an important role ...

  3. Wright brothers - Wikipedia

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    The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane.

  4. Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps - Wikipedia

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    Orville Wright, along with Wilbur this time, returned to Fort Myer in June 1909 with a new though smaller and faster airplane, powered by the engine from the wrecked 1908 Flyer. The brothers spent the better part of July fine tuning the airplane and warming up for the final tests while bad flying weather hampered much of the month.

  5. Wright Flyer - Wikipedia

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    1909 Wright Military flier, Model B, (replica) at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. In 1909, the Wright Military Flyer became the world's first military aircraft after successful tests on June 3, 1909. This airplane was purchased by the army but was never used in combat; it was, however, used to train some pilots. [20]

  6. 15 reasons this famous Wright brothers celebration was ... - AOL

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    On June 17-18, 1909, the entire city stopped to celebrate the brothers in a massive outpouring of respect. ... May 27—By the spring of 1909, Orville and Wilbur Wright had shown in a series of ...

  7. Frank P. Lahm - Wikipedia

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    Frank Lahm (hand on upright by gas tank) with Orville Wright qualifying Signal Corps No. 1, July 27, 1909. The Wright brothers brought an improved version of their 1908 plane to Fort Myer in 1909 for further War Department trials. After practice hops Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Lahm as a passenger, made the first official test flight on ...

  8. Wright Company - Wikipedia

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    The Wright Company was the commercial aviation business venture of the Wright brothers, established by them on November 22, 1909, in conjunction with several prominent industrialists from New York and Detroit with the intention of capitalizing on their invention of the practical airplane.

  9. Benjamin Foulois - Wikipedia

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    The Wright brothers spent 10 months following the fatal crash in making engineering improvements to the airplane. By July 1909, Orville was ready to complete the acceptance test for the Signal Corps. On July 30, 1909, Foulois' first flight in an aeroplane was the evaluation test flight from Fort Myer to Alexandria, Virginia.

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