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KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. — It was 117 years ago Thursday that Wilbur and Orville Wright etched their names in history and embarked on the first flight in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. They were the ...

Today, Wilbur and Orville Wright are as synonymous with the first to achieve powered flight as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are with the first to walk on the moon. But it wasn’t always so. In a four ...

On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made their first successful powered flight in a heavier-than-air craft. The story of the Wright brothers began in Dayton, Ohio, where they owned and ...

Dec. 17, 1903, Orville Wright, at Kitty Hawk,* N. C., made the first airplane flight in history. His brother Wilbur who had helped him invent the motor and design the plane, watched him, nervous, ...

* Editor's note: For the last six months Napa resident Harrell Miller has been writing monthly articles, tracing the events that led up to the historic flight of Wilbur and Orville Wright, which took ...

* Editor's note: This is the third in a series of articles Harold Miller, a long-time Napa educator and Wright enthusiast, is writing for the Register to trace the events that led up to the historic ...

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