Sign up to Offernation and earn $100s a year by taking surveys online and giving valuable feedback to companies. (Only Paypal Required) - The first flight ever in recorded history -- this video represents the history of flight. History of aviation is a beautiful thing for the history of technology which man itself created. The Wright brothers—Orville and Wilbur were two American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane. They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, 4 mi (6 km) south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. In 1904–05, the brothers developed their flying machine to make longer-running and more aerodynamic flights with the Wright Flyer II, followed by the first truly practical fixed-wing aircraft, the Wright Flyer III. The Wright brothers were also the first to invent aircraft controls that made
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