Posted on 12/17/2017 1:28:12 PM PST by heterosupremacist
By Presidential Proclamation, December 17 is Wright Brothers Day. The President is requested each year to issue a proclamation inviting the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
Wright Brothers Day is an annual United States national observation. It is codified in the US Code and Wright Brothers Day commemorates the first successful flights in a heavier than air, mechanically propelled airplane, made by Orville and Wilbur Wright on December 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
The Wright brothers were American brothers, inventors and aviation pioneers...
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I flew too, because of them.
Gustave Whitehead and Otto Lilienthal were flying prior to the Wright Brothers.
Otto was gliding in the 1850’s and Gustave had a powered flight in August of 1901.
The Smithsonian refuses to look into the matter because it does not own the Wright Flyer - it’s on loan from a British museum under the condition that if another pilot/plane was prover to have flown prior the the Wright Bros. the aircraft must be returned.
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