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Success four flights thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.

Source: Telegram, 17 Dec. 1903 (published in The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1953). The telegram was written to Milton Wright --Orville and Wilbur's father --announcing the first successful p
-- Orville Wright, (Aug 19 1871-1948), US inventor, aviation pioneer; He, with brother Wilbur, were the aviation pioneers who achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled airplane flight, 1903.

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