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OCR: GETTING IT WRIGHT Stats The first great technological leap of the 20th century was a sputtering, wobbly, BaxFact 12-second hop. Eminent scientists had struggled for decades to create powered, heavier-than-air flying machines. But it was Wilbur and Orville Wright, high-school-educated bicycle builders from Dayton, Ohio, that first took such an airplane aloft. On December 17, 1903, at a place called Kitty Hawk, they proved that airplanes could fly The Wright Flyer First Flight Bicycles to Biplanes The Army Takes Wing Tour de France A Living Legacy 124 Langley's Leap