On This Day Mankind Takes to the Air

[Weatherman2020]

Today we celebrate the 120th anniversary of human flight. It started with a flight only 120 feet long, shorter than the wingspan of a Boeing 747, in about 12 seconds at 10:35am by two bicycle makers. The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, made history that day in Kittyhawk, North Carolina. Four brief flights were made, each longer than the last, and it paved way for human kind's quest to soar among the sky and stars.

Just 66 years later we were walking on the moon.

 

[JGalt]

 

[whitehall]

Mid december in the Outer Banks? What were those bicycle guys thinking?

 

[Weatherman2020]