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First hot air balloon
Man created a balloon filled with heated air allowing people to travel via balloon -
Wright's learning more
The Wright brothers begin to learn more about flying -
Cle'ment Alder
Cle'ment alder takes off in the first steam powered airplanes -
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The Wright Brothers
Orville and Wilbur Wright become interested in flight -
samuel langley's plane
Samuel Langley flies his steam powered plane -
Samuel Langely
samuel langley gets someone to pilot his plane -
samuel langley's failure
Samuel Langley's plane ends up crashing in a lake -
Wright Brothers First flight attempt
The Wright Bros make their famous two wing kite that held up a pilot -
wright's biplane
the wright brothers make their first biplane that could hold a pilot on the bottom wing -
first successful plane
the wright brothers make the first plane that could hold someone -
wright brothers make another great plane
the wright brothers make the first plane that could fly for more than one and a half hours -
First Death from plane crash
U.S Army Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge was the first person killed in a plane crash on this day -
first military contract for a plane
The wright brothers get a contract to build the first military plane -
First continental flight
Calbriath Rodgers made the first flight across the United States. -
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