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Before aerplane
It wasn’t possible to travel by plane. People travelled by ship from onecontinent to another. A voyage from Europe to New York was seven days long. -
the creation of the airplane
Two brothers,two brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright, invented a flying machine. They called
it The Flyer. It was the first plane with an engine. It stayed in the air for 12 seconds and
travelled 37 meters. -
the first woman to fly
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean on her
own. Her flight was 15 hours and 18 minutes long. -
today
Millions of people travel by plane every day. Planes fly very high and very fast. You can fly from London to New York in 7
hours.
