The Dawn of Flight

The Wright Brothers' first flight lasted only 12 seconds, but it changed everything. December 17th,

1903, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Orville Wright lifted off the ground for

exactly 12 seconds and traveled 120 feet. That's shorter than a football field.

People had been trying to fly for centuries, but two bicycle mechanics from Ohio

cracked the code that stumped the world's greatest minds. They didn't have

fancy funding or engineering degrees. They just obsessed over the problem while everyone else

was building gliders that crashed. The crazy part? Most newspapers didn't even report

it. They thought it was fake news. Those 12 seconds launched the modern