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DAYTON'S WRIGHT BROTHERS BEST EXEMPLIFIED THE 20TH CENTURY.(NEWS)
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The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
| Date:
January 4, 2000
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On Dec. 17, 1903, a bicycle maker from Dayton, Ohio, lay down on a muslin-covered wing and faced into a freezing wind coming off the Atlantic Ocean. As his brother Wilbur ran alongside him, Orville Wright revved the engine of the world's first airplane and took off.
''This flight lasted 12 seconds, but it was nevertheless the first in the history of the world in which a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own power into the air in full flight, had sailed forw...
