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Nature 421, 689 (13 February 2003) | doi:10.1038/421689c

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Flying into history

Jürgen Schmidhuber1

  1. Dalle Molle Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Galleria 2, 6928 Manno (Lugano), Switzerland

The caption of your Commentary picture (Nature 421, 15; 2003) suggests that Orville Wright made the first powered flight in 1903. This is not true, although Heilbron's and Bynum's text, on the previous page, was correct.