100 Years Of Flight In 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright from Dayton, Ohio, became the first to succeed in making a manned, sustained and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air craft, an achievement that had eluded eminent researchers and clever inventors for a century. AP Interactive: A Century Of Flight

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The Wright Experience test pilot Terry Queijo. The Dream Of Flight Many aviation experimenters believed they could create an airplane that was aerodynamically stable, like a well-balanced boat floating serenely on a pond, a craft that would join the clouds without much human intervention. Full story

Wright Brothers Memorial Park in Kill Devil Hills, N.C. For Centennial, It’s the Wright Thing To Do Only a few people were present when Orville Wright first flew an airplane down a remote, windswept dune in North Carolina. But the attempt to re-create that 12-second flight exactly 100 years later at 10:35 a.m. Dec. 17 will likely take place before more than 40,000 spectators. Full story

An air show in Key West Naval Air Station. Virginia: Where Flight Grew Up If the airplane was born with the Wright brothers' first flight in Kitty Hawk, N.C., it grew to maturity one state away in Virginia -- at what is now NASA's Langley Research Center. Widely known for its role in the development of spacecraft as well as airplanes, Langley opened in 1917 as the first national aeronautics laboratory. Full story

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A replica of the Wright brothers' 1903 plane.

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