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Object of the Week for August 5

The First Working Airplane!

The Wright brothers, after gathering information on flight from the Smithsonian, completed the first human flight in a powered aircraft on December 17, 1903. The plane was donated to the Smithsonian in 1948, and has been on display ever since.

This is Where the Wright Brothers First Flew

Links

  1. Wright Brothers Stamp from Postal Museum
  2. Medal of Congress awarded to the Wright Brothers
  3. How do Planes Fly?
  4. Photo of the Wright Brothers Outside the Smithsonian (1910)
  5. Airplane art from SAAM
  6. Early Flight Visionaries from Medieval Times
  7. More Flight Legends: the First Transatlantic Flight