| FLIGHT ENDURANCE DAY --- Friday, July 27, 2007 |
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2007/07/27 14:18 |
208th day of 2007 - 157 remaining
Friday, July 27, 2007
FLIGHT ENDURANCE DAY
The 1909 Wright Military Flyer On this day in 1909, Orville Wright
(one of the famous Wright Brothers, along with Wilbur) set a record
for the longest airplane flight. Not that there were many records
available ... after all, it was the Wright Brothers who worked so hard
at making plane flight practical in the first place!
hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds over Fort Myer, Virginia. He was so
tired from the experience that the plane crash-landed. He and his
passenger (name unknown) were OK.
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