[WORLDKINGS] The Constant World Records Seeking Journey (P.183) Wilbur and Orville Wright (United States): Make world's first successful piloted engine-powered airplane flight

23-08-2021

(Worldkings.org) The Wright brothers—Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912)—were two American aviation pioneers. By making the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, 4 mi (6 km) south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, World Records Union (WorldKings) officially declared Wilbur and Orville Wright is the two making the world's first successful piloted engine-powered airplane flight.