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Five Witnesses and Four Flights: How the World First Saw a Wright Machine Fly

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The first flight, by Orville at 10:35 am, of 120 feet (37 m) in 12 seconds, at a speed of only 6.8 miles per hour (10.9 km/h) over the ground, was recorded in a famous photograph.
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