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A lean quiet man pushed his way through the crowd into the open of the parade-ground at Fort Myer, and perched himself uncomfortably in the midst of bundle of sticks. A weight crashed down from the top of a derrick, and the bundle, with droning, whining propeller, was thrown into the air, and stayed there. Breath was drawn in with sharp. audible gasping, and eyes grew round in upturned faces. The impossible had happened. Orville Wright is proving to the army that he could fly.

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Kenneth Chafee McIntosh, “Sudden Greatness” (The Atlantic, September 1921)

On this day in history, Orville and Wilbur Wright made their first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Fifteen years later, Kenneth Chafee McIntosh looked back on the nascent history of human flight.

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@mikehudack @evangotlib - you guys both need to swing by the Museum of Flight on your next swing through Seattle - amazing history of flight.