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NAME: Orville Wright
BORN: August 19, 1871 COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS: born...Dayton, Ohio (Montgomery County) OCCUPATION: aviator, inventor DIED: January 30, 1948 Images National Memorial "The Wright Stuff" Wright State Materials Return to Main Page Return to Name index Return to Career Index Return to County Index |
FAST FACTS:
The Wright Brothers achieved the first successful airplane flight on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Orville Wright was the pilot of the historic flight. In 1909, the brothers received a United States Army contract for the world's first military aircraft.
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