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Category: Camping Gems With all the focus on the Wright brothers
as the founders of modern flight, it's easy to think that they
were the only ones who came close to inventing an airplane. But
in reality, Wilbur and Orville Wright were experimenting at
Kitty Hawk during a whirlwind of manned flight trials and
errors. All across the country, different people were testing
out their own ideas of a flying machine. What the Wright
brothers achieved in 1903 was the first powered flight in a
fully controllable aircraft that was capable of sustaining
itself in the air. As you'll see, they were far from the first
men to fly. In 1799, more than 100 years before the Wright
brothers did their tests at Kitty Hawk, Sir George Cayley, an
English baronet, dreamed up the idea of a fixed-wing aircraft.
He built the first successful glider in 1804 and carried out a
number of experiments on the theories of flight. Later, Otto
Lilienthal build a manned glider that flew suc