On This Day: Wright Brothers First Flight (1903)

Twelve seconds in the air at Kitty Hawk, and the sky became navigable.

The Wright Brothers' first powered flight on December 17, 1903 lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet, less than the wingspan of a modern Boeing 747. By the end of that day, they had made four flights, the longest covering 852 feet in 59 seconds. Within 66 years of that first flight, humans walked o