Happy #WrightBrothersDay! The day commemorates the first successful flights in a heavier than air, mechanically propelled airplane, made by Orville and Wilbur Wright on Dec. 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, N.C.
Dec. 17, 1903 — Flight at Kitty Hawk -In this 1903 picture taken in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, In the moments before the plane was airborne, his brother, Wilbur Wright, on the ground, guided and steadied the plane as it accelerated along the starting rail at left.