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A Century of Flight
On this day in 1903, the Wright brothers and their sister took to the skies over Kitty Hawk. This single act set the wheels turning for a century more eventful than any in recorded history. IN their footsteps would follow the likes of Lindburgh and eventually Armstrong. From a meager handfull of seconds gliding inches above the ground to roaring through the sky in a column of fire and smoke, aeronautics paved the way for emigration, communication, and more. If not for powered flight, transatlantic messages might still be carried soley by telephone wire. Television as we know it would not exist without satellites to bounce the signals around the atmosphere.
Other events, too, would have been totally different. Without their fiercesome airborne firepower, would the Germans have been so successful? Without airplanes, might the US have escaped WW2 unscathed? For with no aircraft, there would have been no kamikaze attack on Pearl Harbor.
So, stop and think how a couple of bicycle repairmen have changed the world when they fulfilled one of man's oldest desires, to soar with the birds.
Peace be with you,
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