Wright Flyer
This is where it all starts. December 17, 1903. Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Twelve seconds, 120 feet, and the world changed forever. Two bicycle mechanics from Dayton solved a problem that had defeated the best-funded engineers on the planet.
No government contracts. No university backing. Just systematic experimentation, a homemade wind tunnel, and the stubbornness to keep going when everyone said it was impossible. Every aircraft on this site exists because of those twelve seconds.
1903 · experimental · wright
