Thursday, August 24, 2006

20th century - the 1900s


Photo from archives of Wright State University Libraries

Flight.

What is your reaction when you think of that word? What about these names/date: Leonardo da Vinci, Heinkel HE 178, Chuck Yeager, Yuri Gagarin, September 11?

Who could have guessed then that a couple of brothers in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA would bridge the chasm between myth and reality in 1903?

The sky is not the limit.

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