Success reported by telegram over 100 years ago
QUOTATION: Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.
ATTRIBUTION: Orville Wright (1871–1948), U.S. pioneer aviator. Telegram, December 17, 1903, vol. 1, The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright (1953).
The telegram was written to Milton Wright—Orville and Wilbur’s father—announcing the first successful powered flight, made at Kitty Hawk Sands the same day. The flight time was in fact 59 seconds, not 57.
~ from Bartleby.com
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