Ferris, Richard. [from old catalog] · New York, T. Nelson and sons · leaf 73
nd. The principles involvedremain in obscurity. During the years 1900 to 1903, the brothersWright, of Dayton, Ohio, had been experimentingwith gliders among the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, 72 FLYING MACHINES. ITorth Carolina, a small hamlet on the AtlanticCoast. They had gone there because the… … Wilbur Wright gliding at Kitty Hawk, N. C, in 1903. time was ripe for the installation of motive power,and on December 17, 1903, they made their firstfour flights under power, the longest being 853 feetin 59 seconds—against a wind blowing nearly 20miles an hour, and from a starting point on…
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