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They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, 4 mi south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

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Orville & Wilbur Wright invented the first airplane. That was the day that Orville won the toss of the coin.

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Inventing the Airplane. In 1896, the newspapers were filled with accounts of flying machines. Wilbur and Orville noticed that all these primitive aircraft lacked suitable controls. They began to wonder how a pilot might balance an aircraft in the air, just as a cyclist balances his bicycle on the road.

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Airplanes fueled further weaponry innovations as engineers assembled enormous anti-aircraft guns to provide ground-to-air defense. Most crucially, aerial bombing tactics changed the very fundamentals of ground warfare. Troops and equipment staged behind the front the lines were no longer safe.

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Planes today are lighter in the air and planes today fly slower then back in the past. Past planes only take a few short flights.