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Wright
"Kitty Hawk" Flyer
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On December 17, 1903 the Wright Brothers made the the first successful
first of a heavier-than-air flying machine at Kitty Hawk, North
Carolina, starting the aerial age . Their airplane, known as the Wright
Flyer, but sometimes referred to as the Kitty Hawk Flyer, was the
product of a sophisticated four-year research and development program
conducted by Wilbur and Orville Wright in which they pioneered many of
the basic tenets and techniques of modern aeronautical engineering, such
as the use of a wind tunnel and flight testing as design tools. Their
seminal accomplishment encompassed not only the breakthrough first
flight of an airplane, but also the equally important achievement of
establishing the foundation of aeronautical engineering.
Their Kitty Hawk Flyer was formally donated to
the Smithsonian Institution in an elaborate ceremony on December 17,
1948 the forty-fifth anniversary of the first flight, and it has been on
public display there ever since. It is now in the Milestones
of Flight Gallery at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington,
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Wright
Flyer
Deluxe Series model.
Hand carved from Philippine mahogany. Carefully detailed.
1/24th scale. 20" wingspan x 10" long.
No. AB1AD-DX. Only $199.95 |
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