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IN the new wing of the Science Museum, South Kensington, in perhaps the most prominent position, will be found the original Wright aeroplane with a long descriptive notice. This states that it was the first power-driven man-carrying aeroplane to make a free, controlled, and sustained flight. The machine, which was built by Wilbur and Orville Wright, was flown by them on Dec. 17, 1903, at Kittyhawk, North Carolina, and its production was the result of their prolonged experimentation and research, which had been stimulated by the gliding experiments of Otto Lilienthal.
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The Wright Brothers' and Langley's Aeroplanes. Nature 122, 930 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122930a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122930a0