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TODAY IS....Wright Brothers Day....commemorating the first successful flight of a mechanically propelled and heavier-than-air airplane. This feat was reached by Orville and Wilbur Wright on December 17, 1903, at a spot about five miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in what is now the town of Kill Devil Hills, on the Atlantic Coast. READ MORE HERE.
AND DID YOU KNOW THAT.....
THE WRIGHT BROS: THE CROTON CONNECTION--Click on the
image for a Sept. 1917 article from THE NEW ROCHELLE PIONEER; it details
the sale of the Croton Point Brick Company property to the Wright
Brothers Aeronautical Company.
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